Watford Electronics BEEB Video Digitser. This allows you to connect up a video camera, VCR, DVD player etc to you BBC Micro and take still photographs.
Category: Hardware
Posts about old hardware
Addition – Acorn Archimedes A3010
This is a machine that I have been after for some time. This model was more aimed at the home user rather than schools as it
Armiga Project – A modern look to one of the greatest computers in history.
The machine, which we call, the Armiga, is a beautiful piece of modern technology.
It’s built around a modern Dual Core ARM CPU, that plays together with our custom made floppy controller. This is the key of the machine: We’ve developed our own controller, able of reading Amiga disks, decode them and make them available for executing. Sounds simple, right? 😉
Gravis Ultrasound Plays – Ylvis – The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
The classic soundcard, Gravis Ultrasound, plays a modern MIDI file. Ylvis – The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) I will be uploading more videos
Gameboy, Pi and SNES controller in catastrophic pile up!
Ben at Phenoptix has made a nice hybrid handheld console – The PiBoy. At first glance this made me rather sad. Two classics brutally butchered for the sake of an ugly emulator.
The best BBC Micro game?
Could frak! be one of the best games for the BBC Micro (apart from Elite!) If not, what’s your favorite, and why!
Hard Disk Death
This hard disk was in a PC that I picked up today. The person who gave it to me said I must destroy the hard
My first electronics kit – Salter Science – Introduction to Electronics
Wednesday was (Got a new job now) the day that I had to travel to Nottingham/Beeston for work. Often at lunch-time, I take a look
Let’s take a look at Viewdata via the Amstrad CPC
Page updated 8th December 2019. Broken links and photos fixed. This is a blog post about the first time I’ve ever connected to a Viewdata
BeebSID – C64 SID chip for the BBC Micro in “The Internet” case
The BeebSID allows you to attach a Commodore SID audio chip to a Acorn BBC computer. The case was inspired by the Internet box used