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Post by DaveO on Oct 26, 2014 19:29:10 GMT
Hello one and all. Does anybody know if there is a BBC Micro language emulator out there for an Android Tablet? Antony tells me he has converted some of SOTA rules to the former and as I've got my hands on the latter it would seem a good way to use the rules at the club.
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Post by Owen Cooper on Oct 27, 2014 10:41:09 GMT
Tony actually converted them to run on the Archimedes, not the Beeb.
I recall about 12/13 years ago we got the original SOTA tapes running on the Z80 Spectrum emulator on a laptop. Do you still have those? There is a free Spectrum emulator for Android called Marvin. I'll download that on my Hudl and have a look at it.
We basically played the tapes into the Line In on a PC, recording the input as a WAV. Then used something (probably from worldofspectrum.org) to convert them to TZX format. This meant we could play on the laptop and take advantage of the snap-shotting functionality to keep a whole load of "as is" snapshots of the game from turn to turn and avoid the usual SOTA problem of an incorrect entry buggering the game up.
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Post by DaveO on Oct 27, 2014 13:10:01 GMT
Hi Owen,
Red Squirrel emulates the Archimedes but, I was talking to Antony Friday night and he said he was now converting to the BBC language, or are they the same. Trying to avoid carting a laptop around thus the interest in using Android tablet, nice and light.
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Post by Antony on Oct 29, 2014 0:35:54 GMT
Dave, the Archimedes was the next computer Acorn developed after the BBC Micro and they both run BBC Basic. I've got a feeling they added a few extra commands on the Archimedes version.
There's definitely an emulator for Windows called RPCEmu which Scott is using to run some other software I've written but they only do versions for Linux, Solaris, Windows & Mac OS
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