Remember to read this page from bottom to top if you are a newcomer
to 8BS!
28/05/2002 With the recent addition and promise of further magazine cover
scans, I have separated the magazine scans from the Manual scans page. Creating
a new entry in the main menus 'Magazines'. Beebug Magazine cover scans placed
on the 'Magazine' page. Thanks to Richard Hall for scans of A&B Magazine
covers. Placed on the 'Magazines' page. Thanks to Martin Hodgson for sending
his HTML OCRing of the Master Compact Welcome Guide. Now available on the
'Manuals' page. Thanks to Richard Hall for some Acorn User cover scans. Placed
on the 'Magazines' page, more to come.
27/05/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for scanning parts of an 'Interface' magazine
from Janualy 1982 containing some BBC info and also for a scan of the front
cover of 'Acorn Programs' magazine issue 1. Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending
it on to 8BS. Now available for viewing from the 'Manuals/Scans' page
26/05/2002 Thanks to both Gordon Dyer and Richard Hall for sending scans
of covers now placed on the 'Cover Scans' page. Thanks to Richard for sending
the Watford Hand Scanner manual. Placed on the 'Manuals' page
25/05/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending the PMS Multi-Font NTQ manuals,
font library and scans. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page.
Thanks also to Gordon for starting the process of OCRing the 'Snap Camera'
manual. Any volunteers for finishing the job? Available for download from
the 'Manuals' page
24/05/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for scans of the Electron Data Recorder
and Plus 3 leaflets. Placed on the 'Cover Scans' page. Thanks to Gordon Dyer
for sending them to 8BS. Thanks also to Richard Hall for several new scans
of books now placed on the 'Scans' pages.
23/05/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending the manual for the Arraymate
package along with scans of the box and advert etc. Available for download
from the 'Manuals' page
22/05/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending a new disc for the pool. The
last A&B disc, now available for download A&B 1-6
21/05/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending an update for ELK-01, now
available for download
18/05/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending a Word Document describing
his modification to the Electron to increase tape load reliability. I have
added it as a download to the existing page in the 'On Line Magazine' and
also as an update to the 'On Line Magazine' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for
an update to A&B1-4 and a new disc to the A&B section 1-5, now available
for download
14/05/2002 In a moment of boredom I wrote a random page script. Click on
the link from the menu and view one of the 200 or so pages of the 8BS website
at random
13/05/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for a collection of photographs placed
throughout the website mainly in the 'pictures' section
12/05/2002 Scan of the 'Snap Camera' manual placed on the 'Manuals' page.
Volunteers for OCRing please?
10/05/2002 Diagram now placed with the Plus 6 Fitting Instructions
08/05/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Advanced Plus 6 Fitting
Instructions. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page, not quite
complete, there is a scan to be placed with it as soon as it is available.
Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending photos of an Acorn Data Recorder, now placed
on the 'photos-other' page. Article about joining 2 BBCs placed in the 'On
Line Magazine'. Thanks to Steven Flintham for originally submitting this to
8BS
06/05/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending a scan of the Electon Database
User Guide. Now placed on the 'Manuals' page. Any volunteers for OCRing please?
Thanks to The Admiral for an update of 'PC Arcadians, now available for download
from the 'On Line Magazine'
05/05/2002 Thanks for Dave Edwards for sending the Electron Plus 3 User
Guide. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page
04/05/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards, the diagram for the Advanced Plus 7 Guide
is now scanned and placed with the relevant zip on the 'Manuals' page
30/04/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending a large number of cover scans.
Now placed on the 'Scans-Manuals' page. He has sent scans of the ISO Pascal
package, Pascal From Basic, Electron View Package, Electron Viewsheet Package,
Electron Lisp Package, Electron Assembly Language Programming, Electron Graphic
Art and Electron Database
29/04/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for The Electron Plus 1 User Guide. Now
available for download from the 'Manuals' page
27/04/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending a photo of a Master RAM Board.
Placed on the pictures page. Thanks to Gordon for sending the User Guide for
the Slogger Master RAM Board. Thanks also to Gordon for sending an update
for the MRB fitting guide. Placed on the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards
for sending updates for all the EUG zips. There is a text file accompanying
each EUG disc image containing info. Dave has updated these text files with
the date of issue of the EUG magazine. Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending the
Advanced Plus 2 ROM Guide, now available on the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to
Dave Edwards for sending the ACP Advanced Disc Toolkit ROM, placed on the
'Manuals' page for download
19/04/2002 Right! You lot win. There were far more votes for the return
of the 'all in one' 8BS catalogue than I expected. So, rather than make myself
a load of work (which is why I got rid of it in the first place), I have written
a script that cobbles together all the separate parts 'on the fly'. Click
on the link in the main catalogue page. Let me know your appreciation please!
18/04/2002 Prices in the 8BS advert reduced for computers (some substantially),
disc drives and a lot of other odds and ends. I have added a little to the
bottom of the left hand pane of the 8BS website telling you which noise it
is you hear welcoming you
15/04/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending me a collection of discs from
MOSS PD. The demo disc and some clip art and pictures. 9 new discs in the
TBI section, TBI-173 now available for download. I have acquired some Music
5000, 4000 etc related manuals and am busy scanning them. Have a look at the
ones I have done so far on the 'Manuals' page. A few more to go. Hopefully
finished in the next day or so
14/04/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending updates to EUG-46, now availlable
for download
13/04/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sening an update for EUG-29. Now available
for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUG-10. 8BS now has the full
collection of EUG discs. Thanks to Ian Wolstenholme for an article on making
the BBCs LED's flash. Placed in the 'On Line Magazine'
09/04/2002 Thanks to Chris Johns for sending a new disc for the Educational
section of the pool. EDU-08 now available for download
08/04/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending a new disc for the pool. A&B
1-4 now available for download. Thanks to 'The Admiral' for sending a PC version
of Arcadians. Now available for download from the 'On Line Magazine' section.
This is an ongoing project, so keep an eye open for updates
07/04/2002 Thanks to Janny Looyenga for sending two new discs for the pool.
TMU-85-8 and TMU-86-2. Now avalable for download
06/04/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending A&B1-3 now available for
download from the A&B section of the catalogue
01/04/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending a scan of the book cover Assembly
Programming Made Easy now available for viewing on the 'Book Scans' page.
Thanks to Matt for a couple of photos added to the 'Other' section of the
'pictures' page. Thanks to Stewart Goldwater for an HTML version of the Dumpmaster
ROM placed on the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending it. Thanks
to Paras Sidapara for sending a photo of a B+128 now placed on the 'Pictures'
page. Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending an OCRed version of the Slogger Master
RAM Board manual. Now available for download from the 'Manulas' page. Thanks
to Gordon Dyer for an article about Electron tape loading, placed in the 'On
Line Magazine'. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending A&B 1-2, now available
for download from the A&B section of the catalogue
30/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending a new disc for the pool A&B
1-1. Now available for download
27/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for a new entry t othe BBC section. BBC-58
a collection of demos. Thanks to Dave also for another new entry, TBI-172,
pictures
25/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update of BBC 56
24/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for pointing out that BBC-56 and 57 were
in the library the wrong way around. (BBC 56 was BBC 57 and so on) Sorted.
Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to BBC 57
23/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to the Epic Adventure help
file. Ready for download from the game help page
18/03/2002 Many thanks to James Watson for sending a disc of his own work.
Now placed in the pool ready for download on TBI-171. This disc is well worth
a look at, the software does appear on other discs in the library, but this
is a disc compiled by James himself with an introduction from him
17/03/2002 TBI-10 and 114 removed from the library due to duplication. Thanks
to Matt Cocker for sending an OCR of the Dumpmaster manual. Now available
for download from the 'manuals' page. Photos of an Atom places on the 'pictures'
page. Thanks to Dave Edwards, an update for EUG-41. TBI-90 removed from the
pool as it was a duplicate. Two new discs in the BBC section thanks to Dave
Edwards. BBC-56 and 57
16/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to BBC 40. Now available
for download. Thanks also to Dave for a new entry BBC-46. TBI-06 deleted as
it was duplicated elsewhere. GLM-01 and GLM-06 updated. TBI-87 and 158 updated
15/03/2002 Fitting info for Watford Solderless ROM Board Addendum scanned
and placed on the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending updates
for the folloing discs: EUD 87-7 10 11 88-3 4 5. Now available for download.
Due to the awful weather, I am not out on my new toy and have updated the
survey instead. I am quite pleased with the new survey (click survey :-)).
I have transferred the data from the old into the new one. All the questions
are on one page and all the results are displayed on one page too. Right!
I know the chat room has been there for a long time. I think it needs co-ordinating.
SO, I will try to be there at 8pm for the next few evenings, if anyone else
wants to be there too.... well, let's see
14/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for updates for the following discs in
the library: EUD-86-04, 87-1 5 6 and a new disc 87-04. Now available for download.
Thanks also to Dave for a new disc BBC-40. Thanks to Pete Turnbull for the
loan of 3 manuals which I have scanned and placed on the 'Manuals' page for
downloading. Any volunteers for OCRing please? 6502 Co-Pro Service manual.
Z80 Service Manual. Prestel Adaptor Service Manual. These include the circuit
diagrams
12/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Moore for sending TMU 83-03, the first Micro User
disc. Now available for download from the TMU section of the catalogue.
11/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for spotting that GLM-10 was the same
disc as BBC-13, so I have removed GLM-10 from the catalogue. Thanks again
to Dave Edwards for sorting out BBC 39 now available for download for the
first time
10/03/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending the Toolkit Plus Manual OCR.
Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards
for sorting out BBC-05, now updated and available for download. Thanks to
Janny looyenga for sending the Beebug Members pack. Now in the library as
BUG-27 . Thanks also to Janny for sending A&B Music Disc, now in the catalogue
as AAB-05. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sussing the disc out for me
09/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending an ADFS version of BBC-13.
Now available for download. Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending an OCR of the
Disc Doctor manual. Now available to download from the 'Manuals' page
06/03/2002 Thanks to Kryten for starting the job of scanning and OCRing
'The BBC Micro an Expert Guide' work in progress available from the 'Manuals'
page
04/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending updates of the 9 following
discs: EUD-01, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
03/03/2002 Having nothing better to do, I have added a little bit of jiggery
pokery to the menu page. The sound on opening the 8BS website is now chosen
at random from the full range of 8 bit Acorn machine power up sounds. For
the pedants amongst us, the Atom will sound when the website is down. If you
always get the same sound, try right clicking and selecting 'refresh' when
the pointer is over the menu. You can now view the daily 8BS visits stats
from day one, have a look at the 'stats' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for
updates for EUD 88-2 9 and 11. EUG-34. Now available for download. Also a
new disc for the ELK section, ELK-04
02/03/2002 Grabby popped his clogs today in the early hours (01/03/2002)
after a road accident. Graham was a good friend and he will be missed by many.
Photo put back on the 'I know you' page
01/03/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending updates for the following
EUD discs: 85-10 11 12, 86-2 8 11, 87-3, 89-10 11 12, 90-1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Now
all available for download
27/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for updates of the following EUD discs:
84-3 5 7 9 11 12 and 85-2 3 4 6 9
26/02/2002 Thanks again to Kryten for another installment of the Master
512 Technical Guide, placed on the 'Manuals' page. Removed the new counter
from the site as it was not working very well occasionally. Reverted back
to one I have used before
25/02/2002 Thanks to Kryten for sending his work so far on the Master 512
Technical Guide. He has OCR'ed the scan and turned it into HTML. The work
so far is available on the 'Manuals' page. He is slowly finishing the job
of checking and formatting. We are done up to and including chapter 3, chapters
after this are linked to from the index page but are garbled. Available from
the 'Manuals' page
24/02/2002 A big change in the EUD section. I have separated out all the
bundled zips of discs. They were zipped into bundles by year. Dave Edwards
has promised a further sort out of these as many are typed in which he wants
to replace with the original disc. I have done the same to the 8BS, BBC, EDU,
FAC, TBI, BUG, ELB, TAU and TMU sections, the bundled images are now all separate
zipped downloads.
23/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUD-16 and the DFS versions
of EUD-01, 02, 04 and 12, now available for download
22/02/2002 Thanks to Joel, the 8BS website is now running on some replacement
kit. Not as much space as before, but enough and a lot faster. Everything
is up there and working now (I think). Just error trapping to be sorted out.
The WHS section is back and the zipped ByteBack scans are there. If you find
any problems, I would be very greatful if you would let me know. FTP Access
is enabled on this server now.
21/02/2002 WANTED! Educational
software for the EDU section. Any donations gratefully accepted. I have decided
it is time to expand this section further. Great news, Joel has donated a
new server and rescued the old hard disc. This has saved me a lot of upload
time. I have sorted the wheat from the chaff and all that is missing for the
moment is the ByteBack stuff. That will be up there in a few hours. The changeover
to the new server seems to have gone very smoothly with (I think) most people
not noticing
20/02/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending 5 manuals, all available for
download: Acorn ROM installation instructions. Zif Socket instructions.Slomo
Info. Watford Disc Drive info and Watford Solderless ROM Board info.
18/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUD-14 and 15, now available
for download. Thanks to Kryten for OCRing the Master 512 Technical and Monitor
Guide now available for viewing as an HTML page in the 'Manuals' section
17/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for supplying the Exile Solution. Now
available for download from the Games Solutions page. Brain Jones says he
would be happy to hear of any views from users on the functionality of BBC
Connect (after release 2.0) and the 8BS disk images e-mail me please.
15/02/2002 Joel tells me that owl2 is ready to go, he just needs to get
down to the server to install it. Hopefully next week and then I will be able
to upload the rest of the things (mainly the WHS section). Thanks to Dave
Edwards for sending 3 DFS conversions for the EUD section of the library.
EUD-08, 09 and 10
13/02/2002 Thanks to Peter Turnbull for the loan of the Master Compact Service
Manual. Now scanned and available for download from the 'Manuals' page. The
Circuit Diagram is also ready for download on the 'insides/technical' page
12/02/2002 Upload Status: Still to go, WHS and Byteback Zipped version of
scans. Unfortunately, I am out of server space until Joel sorts it out for
me, so those things will not be uploading for a while
11/02/2002 Upload Status, still to go: WHS scans (about 333 meg) and presently
uploading The Disc User scans (about 197 meg). Photos taken from Peter Clements
website placed on the pictures page. A Model of a BBC B and a Sentinel Chess
set. A link to his website also placed on the links page
10/02/2002 Thanks to Pete Turnbull for letting me use a reply he sent to
someone about disc drive power supply plugs. I have used his text as an article
in the 'On Line Magazine'. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUD-7 , 8, 10
and 13, now available for download. Dave Edwards has now started to send me
DFS versions of the EUD discs. Please keep an eye on the EUD catalogue for
additions. Updates for the non-working images of TBI-16 and TBI-18 sent by
Dave Edwards. Thanks to Janny Looyenga for sending EUD-09. Upload status,
still to go: Acorn User, WHS scans, The Disc Users, Fast Access Card, The
Micro Users scans. This adds up to 615 meg still to go.
09/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending an update for TBI-165, new
discs EUD-06 and 11. Now available for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards again,
for an update to ELK-02. Thanks to Janny Looyenga for sending EUD-05. Website
upload still ongoing. I have all of the scripts and things working now (I
think). Just error trapping to be enabled. Everything other than some items
in the 'othrdnld' directory is uploaded. Still to go are: Scans of Byteback,
Acorn User, WHS scans, The Disc Users, Fast Access Card, MDW cheat discs,
The Micro Users scans. This adds up to 961meg still to go. I am using a new
visit counter, click on the count to see lots of interesting info
08/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Moore for sending TMU-83-7 8 and 9. Now available
for download from the pool. Thanks again to Dave Moore for sending an update
for TAU-7, a bug fixed in one of the games. Thanks to Dave Edwards for 4 new
discs in the EUD section with the promise of a further 8 for there. EUD-01,
02, 03 and 12, now available for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending
the rest of the EUG discs. The full complement is now available for download.
This time he has sent EUG-52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59 and 60
07/02/2002 Hooray! Website fixed. I am having to upload everything, so lots
will not work for quite some time, but at least 8BS is alive again
03/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Repton Infinity Manual.
Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page
02/02/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUG-47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53,
61 and 62 for the pool. Now available for download from the Electron User
Group section of the library. Remember ByteBack magazine anyone? Paul Harvey
has given me permission to place the scans of the 11 issues of ByteBack on
the website, available for download from the 'Scans' page
31/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Moore for pointing out I was missing some Alligata
Games from the catalogue. 5 New entries: TBI-166 Ebony Tower, TBI-167 Neanderthal
Man, TBI-168 Q-Bix, TBI-169 Spitfire, TBI-170 Xanadu Cottage. All available
for download now. Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to EUG33, now available
for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending EUG57, now available for
download
28/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for submitting The Larsoft Collection,
now placed in the pool ready for download as TBI-165
25/01/2002 Website went down today. Broken completely. Not up and running
until stated
23/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to EUG-41, now available
for download. Thanks to Dave for EUG-45 and EUG-46 now available for download.
Thanks to Dave Edwars for sending me his 40% completed guide to Professional
Electron Games. Available for download from the 'Manuals' page
21/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for 3 new discs. I have started a new
section in the library, entitled ELK. This section is for Electron Discs.
The 3 new discs start this section off. Thanks to Dave for the intro and text
for the descriptions. An update of the data for BBC Connect sent to Brian
Jones. Thanks to Steve Fewell for an update of the Basic Disassembly pages
20/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending another 8 discs for the pool.
EUG discs of games reviews. Available for download as TBI-150-11 to TBI-150-18
although there is at present a problem with two of the discs, I hope to have
these replaced shortly. Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending the Stack Lightpen+
manual. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page
17/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending two discs for the pool TAU
12 and TAU 13. Two tape conversions of Acorn User Compilations. Finest Favourites
and Games Compendium. Now available for download from the TAU section of the
catalogue
13/01/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending The Adventure Creator Manual.
Now placed on the 'Manuals' page. Dave promises a lot more like this
08/01/2002 Thanks to Steve Fewell for sending me scans of The Acorn User
Magazine October 1984. I have placed a link to this new set of pages on the
'Manuals and Scans' page. Any more from volunteers will be gratefully accepted
for the website
01/01/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending Watford Electronics 32K Ram
Board Manual. Now available to download from the 'Manuals' page
30/12/2001 Thanks to all of those that tested my new voting script out for
me and at the same time let me know how you wanted the 'Pictures' page to
go. As I suspected, the vote was clearly for a break up of the page and so
I have now split up the huge page into smaller lumps
26/12/2001 Thanks to Mark Usher for forwarding the following to me, a revision
of the Creative Assembler manual from the Manuals page, done by John Simpson.
Available for download now
19/12/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the 'Sound Expansion Cartridge
Manual' for the Electron.Placed on the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards
for a reshuffle and sort out of two discs in the pool. A&B-02 and A&B-03.
Have a look at the catalogue to see the changes. Thanks to Rik Steenwinkel
for an update to the Electron technical page. Thanks also to Rik for two photos
of Electron with Plus 3 now placed on the 'Pictures' page
12/12/2001 Thanks to Daniel Kendall for sending a photo of a Watford 32K
RAM board, placed on the 'Pictures' page
09/12/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Slogger Printer Driver
Generator Manual. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page
08/12/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Jafa Systems Shadow RAM
board manual. Now available for download from the 'Manuals' page. The moment
you have all been waiting for (well about one or two hits a month). The 8BS
Christmas page returns with a vengeance. Wrap up well, you may well need ear
muffs. Thanks to P.Jagger for sending a photo placed on the 'pictures' page.
A Real Time Clock Module
07/12/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the manual for the ACP DFS.
Now available for donload from the 'Manuals' page
01/12/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for a manual, placed on the 'Game Help'
page. CASTLE FRANKENSTEIN, QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, THE KINGDOM OF KLEIN
and WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Thanks to Dave Edwards for this
30/11/2001 Thanks to Steve Fewell for submitting some more parts of the
BASIC ROM Disassembly
27/11/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for submitting TBI-164, crosswords. Now
available for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards again for sending a Word format
manual. This time, the Slogger Tape to Disc ROM User Guide. Thanks to Paul
Richmond for scanning his hand drawn map of Sphinx Adventure, now available
to download from the 'Solutions' page
25/11/2001 My last day as a Paramedic. Tomorrow I will be retired on ill
health. Thanks to Matt Cocker for scans of The Micro User cassette inlays.
Available from the 'manuals/scans' page
24/11/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Slogger Click Manual,
available for download from the 'manuals' page. Dave says that if you want
any manual in Word format, to e-mail him and he will do it. m.edwards26@ntlworld.com
20/11/2001 Photos of a BBC B in a Viglen case, a Grafpad and a Ram Disc
added to the 'Pictures' page
17/11/2001 Thanks to Dave Moore for lending me The Disc User Magazines that
I needed to complete the set of scans on the 'manuals' page. Uploading. I
have had problems with my connection, so the process will be a bit slow
16/11/2001 Master Compact and packing placed on the 'Pictures' page
15/11/2001 Thanks to Matt Cocker for 11 new entries into the TMU section.
85-1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 and 86-1. Now available for download
11/11/2001 Changed the format of the 'On Line Magazine' main page and a
couple of the articles by myself. See for yourself. Please let me know what
you think of it. I have also done something really pointless too. I shall
be experimenting with it. I have made a full set of alphanumeric mode 7 characters
in all the colours each in small gifs. My intention is to drag them into webpages.
Next, I will think about the block graphics. To see the latest experiment,
look at http://8bs.com/bfont.htm
08/11/2001 Added yet more statistics to the stats page. This time, the totals
of real discs I sent out from when I started doing this until I stopped keeping
records. Adapted the stats script (that manipulates all the csv stats files)
slightly so it would not turn the headings into links if the field heading
does not contain the text 'URL'
07/11/2001 Spent most of the day struggling around with the message board,
fiddled with it, mended it, broke it and mended it again. All sorted now ...
I hope.... Tidied it up a bit and added a bit of text to the front page pointing
out that I don't automatically delete messages. I removed a bug from the script
that caused it to place &iamaquotationmark& there instead of a ".
If you encounter any problems, please let me know.
06/11/2001 A month in the life of 8BS from 8BS-37 placed in the 'on line
mag' section. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the solution to Moonbase
Beta. Placed on the 'Game Help' page
05/11/2001 Statistics page updated with the monthly summary of downloads
for 2000 and 1999. Thanks to Atze Dijkstra for AMX Art Manual placed on the
'manuals' page.
04/11/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for the Exile manual, placed on the 'manuals'
page. Thanks to Keith Howell. Atom manual and books link placed on the 'links'
and 'manuals' page. Thanks to Keith also for an OCR of the Hardware Guide
to The BBC. Placed on the 'manuals' page
02/11/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for the SEDFS manual, placed on the 'manuals'
page
01/11/2001 Monthly statistics updated on the 'Statistics' page
29/10/2001 Thanks to Atze Dijkstra for two OCRed books, AMX Mouse And ROM
Manual and Creative Assembler, How to Write Arcade Games. Placed on the 'Manuals'
page
27/10/2001 Scan of Master Compact Leaflet placed on the 'Scans' page. Scans
of Master Compact Application Notes and Connecting a 5.25" Drive to a
Master Compact placed on the 'Manuals' page for OCRing. Thanks to Matt Cocker
for OCRing the BBC B and B+ Replay manual. Scan removed from 'Manuals' page
and replaced with finished manual. Thanks to Matt Cocker for an OCR of the
Master Smart Cartridge Manual. Placed on the 'Manuals' page
25/10/2001 Thanks to Steve Fewell a few more routines added to the 'Basic
Disassembly' page
24/10/2001 Sort out of the 'Horrors' page with a new addition, someone sent
me the ideal query today. I thought I would immortalise it.
23/10/2001 Scan of Electron User Guide placed on the 'Manuals' page. Volunteers
for OCRing please!
22/10/2001 A third version of the Master Compact Welcome disc added to TBI103-2.
New additions to the TBI section. These are discs that I have finally got
around to filing properly (it's taken about 5 years to get around to it),
they have been on the 'More Downloads' page. TBI-159 to TBI-161, video grabs.
TBI-162 Photos from a 'Not The Acorn User Show'. TBI-163 The BBC Project by
Peter Shaw (Windows program). I have separated all of the MDW cheat discs
from the one big zip and made them available from the 'Solutions' page. Having
taken everything off the 'More Downloads' page apart from stuff to do with
manuals, I have remamed this section to 'Manuals', I have renamed the page
that used to be called 'Manuals' to 'My Manuals'
21/10/2001 Thanks to Janny Looyenga for sending two disc images for the
A&B section. A&B-03 Adventure Generator and A&B-04 Xanadu and
Amnesia text adventures. The 8BS website hit 1027 megabytes today. More than
a gigabyte of BBC stuff available here now! Thanks to everyone who has sent
stuff to me. Keep it coming folks! Photo of Master Compact and cover placed
on 'pictures' page
20/10/2001 Thanks to Matt Cocker for making a start on the Microvitec Cub
Monitor Service Manual. Placed on the manuals section of the 'More Downloads'
page. Volunteers to finish it off please? Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending
the manual for
The Quill, adventure writing system. Available for download from the manual
section of the 'More Downloads' page. Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending The
Micro User Magazine cover scans for storage on the 8BS website. His website
will remain the same but the images will be loaded from the 8BS server. I
have placed a page available from the 'More Downloads' page from where you
can view just the images, however, I suggest you visit the site if you want
more info about the magazines themselves. Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending
some Micro User tape conversions, swelling the 8BS library by another 12 discs.
TMU83-12 TMU84-1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11. Now available for download from
the TMU section of the catalogue
19/10/2001 Hobbit hints sheet added to the 'game help' page
17/10/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Slogger Switched Joystick
interface manual, now on the 'more downloads' page. I have re-organised the
'more downloads' page as it was getting out of hand. All the various things
were in the same directory. I have placed them into separate directories and
adjusted the web page accordingly, most folks will not notice the change but
I thought I would mention it just in case you have direct links to the files
15/10/2001 Thanks to Janny Looyenga for submitting two new discs for the
512 section. 512-81, 3D World Map and World Database. 512-82 World Time. Now
available for download. Thanks to Glyn for his perspective on FDC, placed
in the 'On Line Magazine'. Photo of a satellite receiver lead placed on 'pictures'
page. Thanks to Jeremy Grayson for the bits
14/10/2001 Thanks to Matt Cocker for an update of TMU-86-9, he has sent
a version that is menu driven. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Slogger
Catalogue. Now on the 'More Downloads' page. Thanks to James for the scan
of 'The BBC Micro, an Expet Guide' now placed on the 'More Downloads' page.
13/10/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards. Another manual placed on the 'More Downloads'
page. Mode 7 Adaptor. Thanks to Christopher Dewhurst for his disassembly of
Swoop. Placed on a new page created especially for game disassemblies
12/10/2001 Thanks to Steve Fewell for more additions to the Basic Disassembly
pages
10/10/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for two additions to the 'other downloads'
page. Two manuals. Electron Rombox Plus and Electron Expansion 2.0
08/10/2001 I have reduced the charge for CD's from the CDR section of the
pool to £5 each
07/10/2001 Major sort out today at 8BS. I have had a careful sort through
my drawers of discs. As a result there are a few changes to the catalogue:
A few discs returned to the catalogue that I had removed for one reason or
another: TBI-6. TBI-10. TBI-42. TBI-46-40 (40 track versions of TBI 46). BBC-5.
BBC-80. BBC-81. CJR-3 (old STD). GLM-1. GLM-3. GLM-10. FAC-1. FAC-3. Have
fun seeing what they are! New additions to the catalogue. TBI-37-1 2 and 3.
TBI-57-7. TBI-158. BBC-0. BUG-26. The 8BS website now is 1000 megabytes. HTML
index for the WHS section added. This is mainly to tidy up all the loose ends
in my site check, probably of no use to most people. After a whole day of
sorting out. I am hopeful that there are no broken links or messed up downloads
on the 8BS website despite its size. I would really appreciate it if you could
let me know if you find a problem.
06/10/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards. Three games solutions added to the 'Game
Help' page. Elixir. Uggie's Garden and Woodbury end
05/10/2001 I have come across another version of the Compact Welcome disc
and added it to TBI-103-2 available from the TBI section of the catalogue.
Scans of some Morley advertising sheets added to the 'more downloads page'
04/10/2001 I have not updated this page for a couple of days because I have
been busy. However, there are a lot of changes to the 8BS website. Please
examine the 'Recently Changed Pages' utility (top of this page) for all the
details. However, special thanks go to Steve Fewell for his great work on
the new BASIC IV ROM section of the website. Loads of new additions to this
ongoing project. Steve is maintaining this section of the website himself,
doing a grand job of it too. Thanks also to Christopher Dewhurst for his input
to the project, an article from him there also. If anyone else wants to help
out, please contact myself or Steve. Modification to the 'recently changed
pages' script. Now it lists the contents of the message board and BASIC Disassembly
project separately on the same page
26/09/2001 Thanks to Steve Fewell for submitting his first part of his disassembly
of the BASIC IV ROM. If anyone wants to help out, please contact Steve or
myself. See the article in the 'On Line Magazine'
24/09/2001 Thanks to Marc Bramham for a scan, placed on the 'Pictures' page
23/09/2001 Thanks to Paul Jagger for a couple of photos of an Acorn 32016
co-pro with 1 meg upgrade. Added to the 'Pictures' page
21/09/2001 Thanks to Matt Cocker for sending the TMU discs 88-2, 88-3 and
88-4. Now available for download from the TMU section of the catalogue. I
have improved the descriptions of the first few entries in the section
19/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the A&B disc 1-9, now
available for download. Dave has now typed in all of the listings from the
A&B magazines that he has. He still does not have the first six. We would
appreciate it if anyone is prepared to donate or lend the magazines or simply
copy the listings for Dave. If you have any of the first 6 A&B magazines
please contact me
16/09/2001 Thanks to Matt Cocker for supplying two disc images for the pool
TMU-87-2 and TMU-87-6. Now available for download
13/09/2001 Dave Edwards has sent A&B-02 and 1-8. Now available for download.
Thanks again Dave. Updates for A&B 2-7, 2-11, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5
11/09/2001 Download statistics database updated with figires from June,
July and August. See the 'Statistics' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for typing
in the listings from A&B discs 1-14 and 2-9, available for download from
the A&B section of the catalogue now
10/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for A&B disc 1-15. Now available for
download
09/09/2001 Thanks to P.Hardwick for some photographs placed on the 'pictures'
page
07/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for supplying an update to TBI-143-1 Sunday
disc 1. Adaptations to ensure that it works with ElectrEm
06/09/2001Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending A&B disc 2-8
04/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending A&B disc 2-7
03/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for more A&B discs. First of all,
corrections to A&B 3-1 and 3-2 and an update for 3-4. Also for the new
disc - A&B 3-3 now all available for download from the website
02/09/2001 Thanks to Dave Edwards for typing in yet another A&B disc.
This time 3-2. Available for download from the A&B catalogue