When I first saw this game, I was 14 years old. I don't know if anyone else agrees with me, but the image of Rupert Bear (it's the trousers) being devoured by a huge tomato haunted my dreams for many days. I was rubbish at Rocket Raid as well, though I remember it being better played with a joystick. I'm talking about one of those analogue Acorn 'twiddler' sticks. In the level with the bouncing bombs, you had to rotate the joystick a bit and wobble it. P.S. Please get rid of the jazz - I can't hear what you're saying with that going on in the background.

The BBC Micro really was an ATTRACTIVE machine. I love the colors they used on the keyboard. It just has a very slick look.

If you can come up with a pun for Quid Hardware I'm there!

@RetroBytesUK

2 жыл бұрын

The pun is of course the most important part of this, I did resist the temptation todo a you're momma joke.

Excellent entertainment, as always!

Never got past the third level in Rocket Raid, so hard. Did Missile Base work with the analogue joystick, trying to remember if it was that version or a clone from another publisher, think that would have made it more like the arcade tracker ball controls.

@RetroBytesUK

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it does support the analogue stick, I no-loner have mine as a really never did like the BBC's joystick so I let a friend have mine.

You know, my first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer, and it used a cassette interface. I modded mine to 64kB RAM and wrote a Forth interpreter for it, using the EDTASM assembler cartridge (that was a 6809 processor - great chip). I used the top 32k of RAM as my "disk block space," so I'd always start by loading the disk image in from cassette. I don't recall it taking THAT long. Certainly not "make a cup of tea" long.

Monsters is a bit meh. Rocket Raid moves at a lovely rate thought! 9 direction keys! I thought that me having 8 for the Dragon 32 version was excessive! Lovely job.

@RetroBytesUK

2 жыл бұрын

Must admit I am impressed as to how smoothly rocket raid moves, especially give how early on this game was.

@WhatHoSnorkers

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK For a while I thought you were showing us "Scramble" on the arcade. I think that's SLOWER if anything.

@AlastairMontgomery

2 жыл бұрын

Trying to figure out what the 9th direction would be?

@WhatHoSnorkers

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlastairMontgomery I think it's 8 for moving (Y U I, J L, N M ,) and then ZXC. So actually 8. But 11 control keys! I just had a quick go and it's tricky on a modern keyboard as the keys are at an angle. On a numeric keypad it might be better I suppose...

When I had a BBC, I had a missile command game (not sure if it was AcornSoft's version or not) that worked with an analogue joystick. That was a much better control scheme than keys or a switched joystick. Also, I think it was Superior Software who released a version of Scramble called "Moonraider", that is much better than the AcornSoft's Rocket Raid.

I read the title as the HighPoint RocketRAID HBAs

Who sells stuff for a dollar on ebay? I mean isn't the time investment to actually sell it worth so much more than a dollar?

Or you use the analogue joystick!