Stupid Rubbish by Dave Jeffery
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We will mend it…
At the end of June 2023, my friend Mark Simpson from BBC Northern Ireland’s presentation department wrote to me with a rather unusual request. “An incident has occurred with our BBC1NI globe. It seems a new cleaner has been into our Pres suite and wiped the legend with something which has taken some of the…
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Secret Realms
Repton was an BBC Micro puzzle game I first came across in 1985. It was one of the very, very few computer games that really clicked with me and I have had an on-off relationship with the lizard in the yellow jersey ever since! In 2010, I was involved in the BBC Micro and Electron…
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This is BBC1
After doing a BBC2 “GEM” clock, I thought it would only be right to do the BBC1 clock to go with it. The BBC1 caption is one of the fiddliest things I’ve drawn on a BBC Micro, and it wouldn’t be something I’d normally attempt to draw using MOVE, PLOT and DRAW commands. It would…
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A little GEM
Sometimes, things don’t go as well as you expect. Other times, things go a lot better. And here’s one that falls into the second camp. After creating Oliver Elmes’ 1979 BBC2 symbol in Owlet, I thought it would be fun to create the fully-electronic BBC2 station clock to go with it. The BBC2 station clock…
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Back To Basics
Recently I’ve noticed that I have repeatedly revisited things whenever a new or interesting way of doing them turned up. When I first got my BBC Micro, back in 1983, one of the first things I wanted to do was recreate old television logos and teletext pages. Six years later, when I got my A3000,…
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Trade Test Transmission
This is just a quick post in case you come across this page accidentally. I am going to blog about my hobbies: the BBC Micro, fonts, Blender, Inkscape, Linux, the GIMP, Python and anything else I happen to be playing with. I’m just moving into this WordPress blog at the moment, so I’ll start writing…
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