BBC Micro: Beebem Emulator Tutorial
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[Synopsis]
In this video, I talk about the BBC Micro, and setup and run the Beebem emulator.
The BBC Micro was a computer produced by Acorn in 1981, and it used the very popular MOS 6502 microprocessor. The MOS 6502 was used in a lot of computers and home video game consoles in the 1980s, like the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Famicom, Apple II/IIe, Acorn Electron, Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and others. The first model of the BBC Micro came with 16 kb of ram, and later models came with 128 kb of ram. This platform lasted about 13 years from 1981 to 1994 with 1.5 million units sold mostly in the United Kingdom.
The BBC Micro was meant to be a educational computer in the U.K. to help children learn computer literacy, and computer programming. The price of the BBC Micro was quite affordable with a initial price of £235 for the A model, and £335 for the B model in 1981. There were many variants in the 13 years that this computer was in service with a lot of peripherals, like modems, cpu add-on, ram upgrades, printers, floppy disk drives, and even a hard drive in later models. The capability of the BBC Micro was similar to the Commodore 64, Apple IIe, and the Atari 800 computers at the time.
As for the software, there was a lot of programs written for the BBC Micro. The BBC Micro, like all computers in the early late 1970s and early 1980s had BASIC on a ROM chip. Right out of the box, you could program in BASIC without any special type of compiler. One characteristic of these early computers is that, they were compatible with different platforms. For example, you couldn't use Commodore 64 programs in a BBC Micro, and you couldn't use Apple IIe programs in a Commodore 64. These computer may use the same CPUs, but they had different firmware.
The BBC micro is a interesting retro computer, and you could try out this emulator to see how computers were in the early 1980s. If you are a retro game developer you can get an idea of what retro games were like in the early 1980s.
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[Links]
♠ BBC Micro Emulator Website
• http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/
♠ BBC Micro Software and Games
• https://archive.org/details/netmanyagi_bbc-micro
• https://archive.org/details/AcornBBCMicroRomCollectionByGhostware
♦ MyAbandonware
• https://www.myabandonware.com/
◙ More Emulator Videos
• https://he-1000-1975.com/emulators/
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