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 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.

Also added is 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! :)