Stupid Rubbish by Dave Jeffery
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Drawing the Curtains
A description of how I recreated the curtain that was used for magic buttons on Westward Television’s “Gus Honeybun’s Birthdays”
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Strings and Things
My efforts to reproduce the theme tunes to the BBC’s “Micro Live” and “Computers In Control” in different ways.
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Lemons Parking
A look at what the ground-breaking First Report/News at One theme would sound like if it had been played by an orchestra.
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Recurring Nightmare
A piece detailing the creation of an orchestral version of the Big Centre TV start-up and close-down themes in MuseScore.
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Torch and Go
Description of how music and graphics of the BBC Television Schools countdown from 1958 was recreated in MuseScore, Blender and Inkscape.
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Measure for Measure
BBC Television presentation had an inordinate amount of care put into it in the late 1950s and early 1960s. That may not seem surprising to people today, in an era when BBC Television presentation has a similar amount of effort put into it and has done for decades. However, there was a time between the…
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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…