Category: Television Presentation
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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, […]