Crazy days with those games like JSW, Tir Na Nog/Dun Darach and Marssport. I've had a few of these and some great peripherals like DKTronics keyboard, wafadrive (don't ask), Seikosha printer. Due to a parallel import and modified Oric mainboard (with associated problems) I returned it for a ZX Spectrum 48K. With hindsight I should have looked for a Master 128k on Ebay instead of a B. I'll take colour clash over "Out of Memory" errors every stinkin' time! -) I guess I was spoiled by all those years of having more free memory available for my use than the BBC B had total memory. Annoying as colour clash could be, as a price vs capabilities compromise I think Sinclair made the best choice at the time.
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Pixel-level colour loses its appeal remarkably quickly when you realize that you have to revert to a 4 or even 2-colour mode (or code up interrupt drive mid-frame mode changes) to have any hope of doing much useful with the display. I had a much-loved Speccy at home, but always lusted after the graphics capabilities of the BBC Micro, with high resolution MODE 0 and colourful MODE 2, and played a bit with some of the listings from INPUT magazine during lunch period at school.īut when I finally got my hands on a BBC B around 2002 or so along with the ubiquitous Microvitec CUB monitor to go with it and started hacking around with it properly, I quickly found out that 32KB of RAM minus 20+KB of screen memory equals not much by way of room for BASIC, or anything much for that matter.
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