Remember to read this page from bottom to top if
you are a newcomer to 8BS!
26/03/2000 (23:30) New forms added to the website on the 'Survey' page and
8BS advert
25/03/2000 (14:23) Thanks to Albert Schofield for his latest submission
on tape to disc transfer. Added to TBI-70 and the tape to disc article on
this website
17/03/2000 (21:10) Experiment. A survey page added to the website.
13/03/2000 (19:43) Thanks to Martin Hodgson for OCRing the Beebug Magscan
manual. Fowarded to Mark Usher for his documentation project
12/03/2000 (12:43) Thanks to Martin Hodgson, Citadel solution map improved
(13:05) Article about Comal submitted by Alasdair Davis, put in the 'on line
magazine'. Thanks Alasdair
10/03/2000 (10:47) Photos of Torch Graduate put on the 'Pictures' page
09/03/2000 (09:17) Photo of a BBC B with ATPL board fitted put on the 'Pictures'
page
07/03/2000 (19:49) New page added. 'Shows' consisting of photographs of
the 4 8BS 'get togethers'
06/03/2000 (19:10) Scan of Beebug Magscan manual put on the 'Other Download'
page, ready for OCRing
05/03/2000 Scans of advertising leaflets added to the 'Scans' page
04/03/2000 (11:15) Thanks to Colin Culpitt-Smith (K2B) for submitting an
article and software for a Master 128 Millenium bug fix. See the 'On Line
Magazine'
03/03/2000 (1635) Photos of Acorn User SWR added to 'Pictures' page (18:13)
Parcel Force page attached to the 'On Line Magazine'
02/03/2000 (08:40) Photos of Watford 12 ROM board and a BBC SWR added to
the 'Pictures' page
24/02/2000 (08:05) Photo of Master 6502 internal Co-Processor put on the
'Pictures' page. (12:06) Electron Advanced Referenc Manual scanned for OCR'ing
and placed on the 'Other Downloads' page
23/02/2000 (10:30) Photos of another two pairs of joysticks added to the
'Pictures' page
21/02/2000 (18:25) Thanks to Fred Price for submitting two discs of software
for the pool. TBI149. Added to the catalogue. Upladed to the website. Two
discs of poems. These are in the form of BASIC programs that when CHAINed
are sent directly to the printer. No menu.
20/02/2000 (12:20)Thanks again to Martin Hodgson who has submitted another
3 game solutions with maps and info. Find them on the 'Game Help' page. (12:24)
Master Compact Keyboard and Keyswitch photos added to my collection of keyboard
photos on the 'Insides' page (12:30) Update of picture of my mate Thack and
new photo of Robbie Harrison on the 'I know You' page. (16:35) Another 5 pictures
put on the 'Pictures' page, several peripherals. (16:49) Picture of two tape
games (Snapper) put on the 'Scans' page, Robbie Harrison pointed this out
to me, the two games are slightly different but go under the same name from
Acornsoft
18/02/2000 Photos of BBC in its original box and a Cumana Disc Drive box
placed on the 'Pictures' Page. Thanks to Steve Lindsay for submitting the
photos. Thanks to Martin Hodgson (D7X) for OCRing more games solutions. See
the 'Game Help' page. Thirteen new solutions to games. I think I shall change
your User ID to 0CR Martin!
17/02/2000 Photos of Aries B12 board put on the 'Pictures' page
14/02/2000 Many thanks to Martin Hodgson (D7X) for OCRing two games solutions
from the 'Other Downloads' section, now available as text files from the same
link
13/02/2000 New Article put into the 'On Line Mag'. RGB to SCART lead wiring
12/02/2000 Uploaded 2 more zips of scans of manuals. Two Concept Keyboard
manuals. See the 'Other Downloads' page
09/02/2000 Thanks to Barrie Ellis for EDU-07 now available for download.
Educational software aimed at disabled
05/02/2000 Thanks to Albert Schofield for his regular submission regarding
tape to disc transfer. Added to TBI-70 (updated to the website) and the tape
to disc article in the magazine section
26/01/2000 Chatroom set up on the website
25/01/2000 Anyone interested in getting hold of a kit or made up copy of
the Vine Micros Master OS Overlay board should get in contact with me ASAP
as I am considering the pro's and con's of resurrecting a track negative I
was given. The board plugs in where the 1 megabit Rom goes in the Master 128.
ROMs within that ROM can then be overlaid with whatever you want. Very useful.
I need to know numbers of people interested so that I can plan how (and when)
to go about it.
24/01/2000 Addition to the 'Me' page brought on by David Rose's Panorama
program. Changes to the 'Wants' page and additions to the on line magazine.
Links checked and one added, linking to Robbie Harrison's Master 128 website
20/01/2000 It looks like I have not done much on the 8BS website for the
last month, that is because I have to admit to a little lazyness as far as
documenting changes goes. There have been a couple of new pages added and
I have checked the links page out adding a couple of new links. BBC Central
seems to have disappeared as well as one of the games sites. The Elite website
re-appeared only briefly. Promise of a couple of other new BBC sites. I discovered
with a new version of Netscape Communicator that my animations stopped after
the first loop. This was caused by some sort of a bug in the 'Animagic' software
I was using. I have fixed this using PSP, so all of you that have used the
animations can re-swipe the graphics on the 8BS website to update. Please
remember, I don't mind you using the graphics, but please link to the 8BS
website from the graphic.
28/12/1999 Submission from Edmund Burke placed in the 'On Line Magazine'
24/12/1999 Edmund Burke has submitted a Master Y2K bug fix. I have put
it on the 'On Line Mag' page. I have added a new cartoon to the Christmas
page
16/12/1999 Albert Schofield has sent in his tape to disc submission. Added
to the 'tape to disc' page, TBI-70 updated
12/12/1999 Link to James Watson's new BBC website added to the 'Links'
page
08/12/1999 Removing a ROM from a BBC article added to the 'On Line Magazine'
page
04/12/1999 Christmas decorations put up
01/12/1999 8BS has now acquired the domain name 8bs.com
29/11/1999 New scans on the 'Scans/Games/Disc' page thanks to Rob Kuczynski.
Repton Infinity cover. Hey! Guess what! I have set the wheels in motion to
buy the domain name 8bs.com
25/11/1999 Shortly, the Karoo URL http://www.karoo.net/8bs is going to
be discontinued. An update at Kingston Internet. The new 8BS URL is http://www.8bs.karoo.net/
Please update your links accordingly. The new URL is up and running now. I
have no idea when the old URL will become defunct but I will keep it updated
until then. The old Karoo counter may not work when the old URL is chopped,
so I have got a new counter courtesy of TheCounter.com. One new option in
the 8BS menus now is to view the visit statistics
24/11/1999 Links page updated. Ian Bell's Elite page up and running again!
11/11/1999 Updated pictures on 'Insides' and 'Sounds'. Now includes Acorn
Atom. Remapped Master 128, Master Compact, BBC B, Electron on 'insides'. Can't
do the BBC B+ as I don't have one at the moment.
09/11/1999 Updated Photos placed on the 'Pictures' page. I am presently
working on several others, so watch this space. New page added. A 'Wants'
page. I seem to have a growing list of wants. This could be quite useful for
others too as I am willing to put your request for items here too. Just email
me with your list. New page. Added to the 'Pictures' page, the packing of
a monitor and making of a Post Master's day. Updated photographs on the 'Testing
out a BBC' page (found on the 'Pictures' page). A couple of the pictures on
the 'Insides' page updated
07/11/1999 Albert Schofield has submitted another article about tape to
disc. I have placed this on TBI-70 and in the tape to disc article on this
website. Photo of a Master 128 in a Viglen case added to the 'Pictures' page.
Picture of the Beebug Master Modem added
29/10/1999 Photo of Acorn Communicator added to the 'pictures' page
24/10/1999 Master and Compact .wav files updated on 'Sounds' page
23/10/1999 BUG-24 'Catalogue split utility' was faulty. Now fixed and uploaded.
Thanks to Robert Patton for pointing out the error
18/10/1999 Cyber Roaster added to the 'On Line Magazine'. Thanks to Edmund
Burke
16/10/1999 Scans of the two different Master Econet Modules added to the
'Pictures' page. 2 New links on the Links page. Mark Usher's Project Babel
(Linking PC and BBC with Econet) and Richard Murray's Econet pages. It's Econet
day here at 8BS
15/10/1999 Elite is a very popular game. I have devoted a page to this
in the 'On Line Magazine' Contributions are invited. Metal Gear Solid cheat
put on PSX cheat page
14/10/1999 Photos added to the 'Pictures' page
13/10/1999 512-79 Box. Simple to use screen designer, added to the pool.
Thanks to Janny Looyenga for sending it. TBI-00 and catalogues updated. Uploaded
to the websites. A huge influx of bits today. I spent a long while re-arranging
the loft and belted my head several times on the beams. Hence the photos of
the loft on the 'pictures' page (click on the roof of 'our house' there are
3 pictures there by the way). All the new stuff is in the 'For Sale' page.
I have a box full of bits to be sorted yet. Also, I picked up a truly wonderful
BBC. More later.
12/10/1999 Article from Edmund Burke added to the 'Why when Acorn' article
on the 'Online Magazine' page. Discussing the demise of Acorn. Poor old Mark
Usher of The BBC Documentation Project (see the 'Links' page) required that
I mention his BBC Documentation Project (see the 'Links' page) on the 'I know
you' page. My apologies for this omission on my part. So, I have. Also, 'Search'
function placed right at the top of the main page
11/10/1999 Read right through the whole of the 8BS website and made minor
changes here and there as I went. A bit added to the 'History' page. A bit
added to the 'Emulators' page. 'Links' checked and a picture added. 'Me' page
updated a bit. I discovered that many links to back to this website are broken
due to the recent move of server, I am trying to tell folks. If you have a
link to the 8BS website from your own, could you check it still works? Use
http://move.to/8bs. I have picked up and expect to pick up a lot of 'new'
second hand BBC items this week by the way
10/10/1999 Photo of Mark Usher updated
06/10/1999 One email too many telling me that there is a broken link on
the Karoo website has driven me to make life more complicated for myself by
fixing the links in the main menus so that anyone going for the downloads
at Karoo is automatically shifted to the mirror where the downloads are.
02/10/1999 Fitting an 8271 DFS to a tape only BBC article added to the
,'On Line Magazine'. Earlier article on the same page about the same thing
adapted slightly.
29/09/1999 Picture of Robert Schmidt added to the 'I know you' page
25/09/1999 Picture of Crispin Boylan added to the 'I know you' page. Third
rewrite of my 'FARAZ' email to the BBC mailing list discarded unused
21/09/1999 Article on tape to disc transfer from Albert Schofield put on
the 'Articles' page. Thanks again Albert. I tried the home made BBC out today
and it works. See the photos on the 'pictures' page
17/09/1999 Thanks to Anton Veerman for OCRing the solution to Palace of
Magic. See the 'game help' page. Anton has continued Mark Usher's crusade
in making up screenshot maps. He has grabbed Palace of Magic. You simply MUST
see it! Available on the 'game help' page. I have created a section in this
page for all screenshot maps to be held.
16/09/1999 I picked up a Trekker Buggy today. Picture on the 'pictures'
page. It is a truly amazing bit of kit.
13/09/1999 I found a price list from WeServe dated 14/03/1986. I have reproduced
the interesting bits and placed them on the 'on line magazine' page. Note
the price of Winchester hard drives in particular. Point Blank 2 cheat added
to the PSX cheat page
12/09/1999 The big upload to the UK mirror is over. All there now. Pictures
of one of my kites and another model Ambulance put on the 'me' page
10/10/1999 The big upload is still under way up to the UK mirror. Thanks
to Joel Rowbottom for the web space added to the 'credits' page
09/09/1999 Sadly, I have had to remove the 8BS website from the Keele server
due to problems caused by other people abusing their server. All the 'missing'
downloads at Karoo are still to be found on the Aussie website. This can be
a bit slow from the UK during the daytime as we have to go through the US
to get there. A new website for 8BS! Someone has given 8BS a load of room
on a server. http://8bs.jml.net/. Uploading will take a day or two. Anonymous
FTP access is possible to this website
02/09/1999 List of manuals owned by myself, not for sale, added to the
website. Anyone wanting scans of parts can ask.
28/08/1999 Two articles added to the 'On Line Magazine' page. A message
to the BBC mailing list from Stuart McConnachie on how to convert a PC mouse
to work on a BBC (to be updated with pictures later). An article constructed
from responses to a question I put to the BBC mailing list
19/08/1999 Pictures of electron with Plus 1 and Plus 3 and wrappings added
to the 'pictures' page
17/08/1999 Links page updated with a link to a website providing transformers
that allow you to use a British BBC in the USA. Most of the anonymous game
maps sussed. See the 'Game Help Page' Baron, Gisburne's Castle and Price of
Magik. One left to do.
15/08/1999 TBI-148 Packet Radio added to the PD library. TBI-00 updated
accordingly
14/08/1999 Article from Albert Schofield placed on the tape to disc page.
TBI-00 and TBI-70 updated. Websites updated with new images of these discs
11/08/1999 Photo of the Hedon perspective of the total eclipse put on the
'me' page
09/08/1999 Correction to the catalogue. Apologies to Dave Edwards for accidentally
crediting TBI-143 to someone else. Corrected now. Photos of my model Ambulances
put on the 'me' page
07/08/1999 Cheats for PSX demo disc 49 put on the PSX cheat page
06/08/1999 Picture of Sandy put up on my 'spiders' page. Picture of my
favourite food added to the 'me' page
05/08/1999 Link to Retro Corp put on the 'links' page. I have scanned in
what I think is an excellent book and uploaded the tif files to here for someone
to OCR. The file is huge. If anyone wants me to split it up into smaller doses
so they can OCR it, I will. I don't want to have separate files floating about
though. Watford Electronics Disc Filing System Manual for the BBC 7643K See
the 'other downloads' page
03/08/1999 Photo of an Electron Data Recorder placed on the 'See 8BS' page.
Something snapped today. Please have a look at the 'on line magazine'.
01/08/1999 New link added to Paul McGunnigle's emulation page. My
mate Fat Thack will be head over heels with this one. The BBC section is a
bit out of date, but hopefully it will be updated after my message to him.
Karoo (good old Kingston Communications) have just upped my webspace on their
server to 20 meg. This means that a lot of the 8BS website can be put back
to Karoo. Everything except the following directories is now uploaded to Karoo:
pool, othrdnld, music and scans. HTML remains unchanged between all sites,
this means you will get a lot of 'NOT FOUND' errors when on the Karoo website
if you try to download software. If this happens, just change to a mirror
at Keele or Aussie. Any other solution would confuse me. Anyhow, I am sure
it will not be too long before (good old) Karoo says 'help yourself' the way
things are going. Naaa. Maybe I am being too hopeful there.
28/07/1999 Link to BBC Central temporarily disabled until problems are
sorted out.
26/07/1999 Link to BBC Central put on the links page
24/07/1999 Three new discs for the pool. TBI-145 Gateway to Karos. TBI-146
Mirror of Khoronz. TBI-147 C.R.Dewhurst 4, games and utilities. All 3 available
for download now, see the catalogue, TBI section for further details
21/07/1999 New improved version of the Firetrack music uploaded to the
'Music' page, this one includes the bonus level music
20/07/1999 This month's PlayStation magazine demo disc (48) cheats
put on the PlayStation cheat page
19/07/1999 A few minor changes and additions to various pages not really
worth mentioning over the last couple of days. Due to increasing problems
with people not being able to read/write BBC discs on their PC's, I have been
looking into serial links. I discovered that there is a gap in the software
side of the link in that writing disc images to the BBC was not covered. Shortly,
suitable software will be available. Watch this space. I also made the visit
counter auto updating, you can now see other people visiting 8BS as you do.
Neat avi animation added to the on line mag submitted by Darkmoon. A neat
sound clip of Firetrak too! I have also put a full version of the Firetrak
theme in the 'Music' page as an MP3
15/07/1999 Keytops and keyswitches added to the 'insides' page. If you
have pictures of other types, please send them to me. 'links' page updated,
non-working ones (at this moment) marked, definitely dead ones removed. I
did it! Made up a lead to join the PC to the BBC using the XFER software.
Complete success. I can now offer to make up these leads for people. See the
'Files PC<>BBC' page for info
14/07/1999 Link to Gareth Moore's Acorn Gaming Page added to the 'links'
page. Gareth used to run GLM PD
12/07/1999 Keele website now working normally and up to date
11/07/1999 Scan of Solidisk DFDC board and 256K ROM board added to the
'Pictures' page
08/07/1999 'Credits' page tidied up, been meaning to do that for a while.
I am also going to add photos to it as folks send them to me (hopefully).
By the way... I have been looking at results of the 'Freefind' search 8BS
website facility. Certain key words are being used quite a lot, I am now getting
the gist of what folks are after and I am trying to accommodate. Peter Shaw's
'BBC project' added to the 'Other Downloads' page
07/07/1999 Photo of Stuart McConnachie (PCBBC) put on the 'credits' page
05/07/1999 Spiders page updated with snaps of Fluff and Hugh. Please note
that the Keele website is still not working properly, I cannot yet upload
to it. The copy of the 8BS website situated there is an old version. Presently,
the website in Australia is the 'up to date' one
04/07/1999 'Music' Page updated. Many megabytes of MP3's uploaded. Music
5000 and Music 500 stuff. Master128>Music 5000>PC soundcard>MP3>ZIP. Pictures
of the Music 5000 and Advanced Teletext Adaptor added to the 'See 8BS' Pages
01/07/1999 The 8BS Keele server has been down for a while. I have tried
to avoid making changes to the 8BS website in this time, there have been a
few additions/changes though. A couple of pictures added. Alterations to the
file transfer page. The 8BS website was awarded site of the day on 27/06/1999,
sadly the Keele site was down and even the redirect address was down for most
of the day. Brilliant! Gex cheat for PlayStation update. Thanks to Robert
Burky for sorting out the Citadel solution and map.
24/06/1999 Another submission from Albert Schofield. An article about tape
to disc transfer, added to the 'Tape to Disc' article and TBI-70
22/06/1999 The 8BS website received 113 hits yesterday, might not seem
many to some, but for the 8BS website which has been bobbing around 20 a day
for a couple of years it represents a huge increase. Over the last 2 months
the average has been slowly rising.
21/06/1999 Cheats for Gex, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Kula World, Demo
47 (Ape Escape, Syphon Filter), added to the PlayStation Cheats page
18/06/1999 8BS has ANOTHER new URL you can use now! This one is a redirect
one so it does not matter where the website moves to, it will always be 'move.to/8bs'.
Try it now! Don't forget to bookmark it. A Bug's Life Cheat added to PSX cheats
17/06/1999 Credits page added
13/06/1999 8BS has turned upside down! Yes, thanks to two very generous
people, 8BS now has loads of room on two servers. Karoo is my provider and
the index there (http://www.karoo.net/8bs/index.htm) takes you to http://www.media.keele.ac.uk/8bs.
From there, you can choose to go to the mirror in Australia http://8bs.aussie.nu.
As I write this, most of the website is in Aussie, I am still uploading the
contents of the 'pool' directory followed by 'othrdnld' hopefully by the end
of today it will all be there.
12/06/1999 Games maps/walkthroughs/hints added to the 'Games Solutions'
page in the 'On Line Magazine'. There are many megabytes of stuff here. I
need a volunteer to OCR or type in the text, thus making the downloads much
smaller. Any offers? Laurie Whiffen's BBC Explorer 2 added to the disc image
info page. Picture of the 3 8BS editors added to the 'History' page. User
port project plans added to the 'On Line Magazine' page
11/06/1999 Disc image info page altered. BBCIM added with documentation.
Image reading/writing/editing hints added/altered
09/06/1999 Christmas again! 512 section uploaded to the website for download.
See the catalogue pages for details. Article from Martin Hodgson added to
the 'On Line Magazine' Page
08/06/1999 All ADFS disc image files that were previously named with the
.a extension, renamed to an .adl extension in line with what Stuart McConnachie
(author PCBBC the best BBC emulator) has done. All ADFS images uploaded to
the 8BS website updated accordingly. NOTE. No changes to the actual files,
just to the name
07/06/1999 Even more PSX cheats added to the Final Fantasy VII cheat
06/06/1999 Article from Mark Usher about creating game maps placed on the
'Online Magazine' page. Cheers Mark
05/06/1999 Citadel map added to the online mag page. No ordinary map, it
has been pasted together from screen dumps. Very big, but worth the wait for
download. Electron User Group website link added to the 'Links' page. PSX
cheat for Dodgem Arena added to the PSX cheat page
04/06/1999 TBI-144 added to the pool TBI-144 Shipwrecked. Jigsaw. 1D 48K
A compilation from D.Edwards. Shipwrecked, Graphical Adventure Game. Jigsaw,
makes your image into a jigsaw. Tower of Hanoi Patience. Idiot's Delight Patience.
Supersonic Snail Racing.
29/05/1999 PSX Cheat for Final Fantasy VII added to the PSX cheat page.
That's got rid of the backlog now
26/05/1999 More PSX cheats added. Demo 46, Live Wire, The Granstream Saga
25/05/1999 More Cheats for PSX added Bloodlines, Adventure Game, Tank Racer
and Retro Force from Demo 44. Demo 45, Actua Ice Hockey 2, Pandora's Box,
T'ai Fu, Ridge Racer Type 4, Big Race USA, Gex, R-Type Delta.
24/05/1999 Wild 9 cheat added to PSX cheat page
23/05/1999 For sale advert for other people added to the website see
this page for details
22/05/1999 New photo of myself on the 'Me' page. Also a photo of my trusty
steed put there. The rest of the pool uploaded. Not available for download
now are the following sections: 512, ARC, CDR, EMU, but I think there's enough
there for the moment. Karoo have been having bother with their mail server.
It was down for a long while yesterday and today. So if you emailed me and
did not get a reply, please try again.
21/05/1999 Mutant Spiders game added to the links page. Thanks to Stuart
McConnachie for pointing it out. Changes to the layout of 'See 8BS'. Thumbnails
used now. The whole 8BS pool made available on the internet for free download.
See the catalogue. Wow, that was a busy day
17/05/1999 Search added to the website. I am really very pleased with it.
To make the facilities of 'Freefind' work, I have made minor changes made
to many pages.
13/05/1999 Tape to disc article from Albert Schofield added to the 'Articles'
page. TBI-70 updated accordingly
11/05/1999 MP3's added to the 'Music' page
06/05/1999 Link to DFW's BBC page added to the links page