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BBC Micro game Pole Position - Part 1

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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2006

Good old Atari Pole Position

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  • This is better than Gran Turismo 5 or Forza Motorsports 2

  • this baby can run Crysis on ultra settings! ohh im joking...good damn old times xD!

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  • It always seemed to me like the cars were going backwards after a while.

  • SOUNDS LIKE A SWARM OF WASP LMAO

  • This was a good game by Beeb standards.

  • good times !!

  • You don't need a 6510 to bankswitch, it just makes it easier. The Language Card for the Apple ][ and ][+ showed that in, what, 1979? (And then the //e was fully-bankswitched in 1983, with an ordinary 1 MHz 6502.)

    And the BBC B+ and Master could bankswitch without one, no? At least, as I understand, the 6512 has nothing to do with the 6510.

  • What with the machine we have today!!! lol Or just for the fact that the world was a better place back then ;)

  • 1981 is when it was first on sale - sold upto 1994 - a crazy amount of time! The Amiga came out in 1984!

  • Yeah, thankfully, the world has moved on from an 8 bit data bus and a 16 bit address bus to a 64 bit data bus and a 48 bit address bus. My trusty HP Z800 with dual quad-core W5590 Xeons and 32GB RAM - emulates a C64, BBC Micro, Apple II and a Sinclair Spectrum all at the same time with less than 5% CPU utilsation - now teleport me back to 1981!

  • I've been playing with SpeedScript to see how the 80 column mode works out, not bad. The same kind of software allows the BBC to easily achieve a eye watering 132 columns. The C128 I'm working on at the moment seems to have 80 col support, but that's a completely different beast.

  • Yeah, 32kB sucks, but to page out the OS, you need the 6510...

    Where was its SID chip, well, there was the Music 500 / UMI sequencer (Vince Clarke used one for years) which is a "proper" synth with digital waveform shaping and stereo output using 8 channels.

    Networking is already on board.

    There were Action Replay, sound samplers and various scanners available.

    Due to the 6502's 2MHz operation, the disc I/F can run at up to 200kB/s - just gotta find a floppy fast enough ;)

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