doomheaven.uk is moving house.

It started life as a Doom fan site back in the late 90s — WADs, screenshots, whatever bits of Doom nonsense felt worth putting on the web at the time. It’s sat online quietly ever since, hosted the whole way through by teamhellspawn.com, who’ve now let me know they’re winding things down.

I want to say a proper thank you to them for that. Free webspace for the better part of three decades is a genuinely long time to keep something ticking over for no reason beyond being decent about it, and rather than just switching it off, they gave me the chance to get everything off in one piece before it went. Not everyone bothers with that on the way out, so it was appreciated.

More fun playing with BBC Twitter Bot.

https://tco/ks0jhudxdM

https://t.co/xBabCMPWCX

https://tco/jVpUMLBa8D

https://tco/Rt3DOf1FOh

Got a new Mac with Catalina pre-installed, so had to compile my own version of Beebasm for the 64 bit OS.

BeebAsm.zip

BBC Micro machine code take on C64 10 Print one line random pattern generator.

Code at Github 10print.asm

\ 10 PRINT
\ Using BeebASM assembler
\ (c) Alastair Montgomery

INCLUDE "../lib/constants.asm"
seed = &70

ORG &2000

.start
    LDA #23
    STA seed
    LDA #63
    STA seed+1
    LDX #0
.char
    LDA chartable, X
    JSR oswrch
    INX
    CPX #23
    BNE char
.loop
    JSR random
    BMI two
.one
    LDA #224
    JMP print
.two
    LDA #225
.print
    JSR oswrch
    JMP loop
.finish
    RTS
.random
    INCLUDE "../lib/random.asm"
.chartable
    EQUB 22,0
    EQUB 23,224,8,8,12,7,224,48,16,16
    EQUB 23,225,16,16,48,224,7,12,8,8
.end

SAVE "MyCode", start, end

BBC Micro take on C64 10 Print one line random pattern generator.

10 MODE 0
20 N=RND(1):IF N > 0.5 THEN PRINT "/"; ELSE PRINT "\";
30 GOTO 20
RUN

Twitter Post

New retro game, looks worth getting a Amstrad CPC emulator setup to play it.

Video Source Retro Collection

Juan’s games: (https://www.usebox.net/jjm/)

Buy physical copies of these games:

Golden Tail

Kitsune Curse

Mr. Ee from Micro Power for the BBC Micro nice variation on the Pacman theme.

Play Online at BBC Mirco

New retro game, looks worth getting a Commodore emulator setup to play it.

This style of game is one of my favorites, loved Boulder Dash and Repton.

Video Source Retro Collection

The Pit Download

Play Online

One of the games I loved playing in my youth on my BBC Micro, I’m still rubbish at it to this day.

Links

Play Online at BBC Mirco

Game FAQs