Documentation on Acorn Computers

Lots of Acorn technical documentation -- I found some useful stuff about ADFS here.

to acorn archimedes arm bbc documentation retrocomputing riscos ... on 05 January 2014

Elite: Claims about numbers sold etc. (very poorly researched Guardian article from very poorly researched material by Francis Spufford)

Criticism of the oft-repeated rubbish about Elite selling more copies than there were BBC Micros.

to acorn ag0700 bbc elite games history retrocomputing sales ... on 15 December 2013

Exile disassembly

The classic BBC Micro game.

to 6502 acorn bbc exile retrocomputing reverse-engineering ... on 14 December 2013

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts ยป DamienG

Comparison of system fonts from 8-bit machines. (I like the Amstrad CPC one, although the BBC one's probably cleaner overall.)

to acorn amstrad apple fonts retrocomputing sinclair typography ... on 14 August 2013

regregex.bbcmicro.net

Various BBC Micro stuff -- including a neat package of tools for working with UUencoded files, and doing things like sending a UUencoded disk image over the serial link. Also Opus DDOS patches.

to acorn bbc dos electron imaging retrocomputing software ... on 31 January 2013

The Acorn Atom Review

From a Dutch fan of the Atom, with various homebrew addons.

to acorn atom retrocomputing ... on 30 January 2013

Acorn technical documents

As it says. I have the programmers' manuals in a box somewhere, but the information I was after is here.

to acorn retrocomputing riscos ... on 07 January 2013

ARM Assembly Language Programming

Good rapid overview of ARM3 assembler -- written for the Archimedes, so with a section on BBC BASIC's assembler too...

to acorn arm assembler etext retrocomputing ... on 02 November 2011

BBC Micro on an FPGA | mikestirling.co.uk

BBC and Spectrum implementations on an FPGA board.

to acorn bbc fpga retrocomputing sinclair spectrum ... on 23 August 2011

B-EM - The BBC Micro Emulator

Another BBC emulator.

to acorn bbc emulator software ... on 17 March 2010