Here is the disc version of The Hobbit for the BBC Micro

When originally released by Melbourne House back in the 80s it would only run on a BBC Model B with a 8271 FDC. Everything else simply would not work.

This version has been adapted by Kieran Mockford (far too many hours were spent on it - it meant replacing all the hard wired 8271 NMI based logic with OSWORD &7F based equivalents) to run on almost any BBC Micro model that has sideways RAM. It will work with 16k of SWR but will be much faster with 32k.

I have also added the ability to save games as files to the drive that it is running from (this includes ADFS, CF etc.). Just use the normal save feature in-game and it will create the appropriate file.

This version has also had a couple of bugs fixed that make the game possible to complete.

It has been tested on:

- A real BBC Master 128 (using DFS, ADFS, RetroClinic CF, RetroClinic DataCentre, IFEL's MMBeeb)
- A real BBC Model B    (using DFS)
- A real BBC Model B+   (using DFS and ADFS)
- All the emulators I could lay my hands on for PC and OSX including BeebEm

There are two versions here:

1. Hobbit_SSD.zip contains a bootable single sided 80 track disc image (it only just fits, no space to save games unfortunately!)
2. Hobbit_ADFS.zip contains a bootable 640k ADFS image that has enough space to save a number of games onto.

Happy dragon hunting! :)