Hello from Happy Hacking BB

[Eric Anderson]

Hi Eric and welcome to the forum

Its great to have the original authors of Microbee software join the forum and tell everyone what and how the games were written, adds to the overall history of Microbee. That software list (which I wrote when on that forum) should list 2 of your games RACE and STAR FIGHTER and both on our Games_04 disk, which is also a disk I made back in the late 80's.

All of our Microbee mater is in our Repository, so join up via https://microbeetechnology.com.au/MTFR_A...Access.htm  While there also grab UBEE512 Emulator so you can run your games on your PC

We would be most interested in the disks and tapes you have and I'm setup to image and record both.  If you can post them to me (I'm in Victoria) I can then image them and post them back.  If thats okay, I will PM you my addy.  Thanks again.

Oh!!  So your the one who archived my old games.  You have no idea how much joy it gave me to see my old games saved for posterity. I would love to know how you got a copy.  Were you part of the BBS community back then and downloaded it from my bbs (Happy Hacking BB) or did they come to you in some other way?
My dad refused to let me buy games, thus I started writing my own from scratch the moment I got the Microbee. Mind you I have to learn Basic on my 16k rom machine first and spent many hours cursing Mathew Star for the weirdness MW Basic.

I will sign up for the repository thing right after replying to the messages.

I am in Melbourne.  Perhaps it might be better to just drop off the stuff?  Safer than aussie post.

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Heh
Looks like I wasn't the only person watching ABC in that period. Inspector Gadget, Dr Who. You're only missing Monkey and possibly Kenny Everett :-D
(No, I don't want to think what a Kenny Everett video game would be like. I went back and watched some recently and it was a LOT more racy than I remember)
Can't wait to see the games, Eric, and thanks for sharing with us!

Cheers!

Chesh.

Oh yes!  Computers and Channel 2 afternoon kids TV.  Monkey was more Primary school for me I think?  Though I was considered a Danger Mouse game at once point.  Kenny Everett!  All I remember of that show is a skinny guy with a beard who kept introducing cartoons where everyone had huge chests. And that he sat there for a full minute and did nothing, after which he calculated how much of the BBC's money he just wasted.

I'm about to apply for archive access.  Once I have that I will take a look at which versions of the games are there.   I know I upgraded several of them to use color when I got the Premium Microbee so it will be interesting to see which ones are there.

I also have the original hand drawn graphics if there is room for that to be bundled with the games.  They are on graph paper with numbers next to them which I calculated to be poked into PCG memory.
I also found some screen printouts of the games with hand written notes on them for the development process.   I've love to find a way to bundle all that with the games so they have their whole history.