Homebrew Beebem Wii : BBC Micro emulator

[Wiimpathy]

Beebem Wii is a port of Beebem gp2x (0.6-1), a BBC Micro emulator.
It's a computer by Acorn Computers released in the 1980s.

Beebem v0.1

Source code

 

[soniccomcisbr]

I never even saw this computer, but I'm a little curious now.

 

[kaisersozeh]

LOVE!
I've recently made a few commitments with my free time - they are all going to have to take a step back because this. is. next.
@Wiimpathy Thank you!
@soniccomcisbr - this was a desktop computer that was in most British schools for about a decade - the BBC, the broadcaster, wanted to tie in a teach-the-public-coding T.V. series with hardware people could directly code on.
More interesting titles include
Elite - the first free-roaming universe, from a time when software came on 5 1/2" floppy discs and went "bip" - iterations of this game are still hugely popular and in active development
Thrust - Incredibly resposive gameplay, regardless of the era - people play a later freeware version of this to battle online.
These and other titles represent the birth of big international software houses - so if you want to see how now familiar ideas evolved, look at popular BBC titles
There are extensive amounts of code written for it - all of it archived, game reviews too.

 

[mastershoes]

Awesome to see YET ANOTHER emulator/plugin! Maybe someone should post all your latest apps over at wiibrew.

Well, looks like I've started a coverset. Should probably get to finishing that Amiga set first, lol.



Thank you for all your hardwork @Wiimpathy

 

[kaisersozeh]

Awesome to see YET ANOTHER emulator/plugin! Maybe someone should post all your latest apps over at wiibrew.

Well, looks like I've started a coverset. Should probably get to finishing that Amiga set first, lol.



Thank you for all your hardwork @Wiimpathy

Nice one for all your hard work too!
Totally second that wiibrew thing also

 

[Wiimpathy]

I'll end putting all my recent updates on wiibrew myself(maybe). I don't think anyone will help creating the pages. There's also an anti spam system that will stop most users : What is the output of 'date -u +%F | sha1sum | head -c8; echo' ?
http://wiibrew.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page&type=signup
Ha, ha, impossible for 99% of users and specifically windows ones. Well done wiibrew!

 

[kaisersozeh]

I'll end putting all my recent updates on wiibrew myself(maybe). I don't think anyone will help creating the pages.

I can help with this. shout me.

 

[templar701]

thank you Wiimpathy for bringing this to table, awesome job! Can't believe I've only just seen this release and that I appear to be the only Brit commenting on it!

This machine had such an impact, and the humble beginnings of the ARM processor! For anyone even slightly curious, as to what this is, and how it came about, there's an interesting story behind it; checkout this Docudrama, stars Martin Freeman:



PS: @Wiimpathy, any plans on porting the successor, Acorn Archimedes? I had been experimenting with DOS Archimedes emulators running on DOSBox, but couldn't quite get them to boot, more testing tinkering needed.

 

[Wiimpathy]

That was a great machine indeed. And as you said, it played an important role in computer's history(ARM).
I have good memories playing Chuckie egg and seeing Elite for the first time too.

Acorn and ArcEm? Beebem had rather portable code(sdl). But, I already struggled a bit with this one. So no, because at first glance it seems harder to port.

 

[mastershoes]

It's a WIP, but figured I'd share what I've got done so far here. If you prefer original spines, they are in the 'Alts' folder.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/pp5a44vbam483h2/BBC_Micro_%28132_%2B_94_Alts%29.rar/file

 

[Boinkspaggle]

Could you please produce a channel installer WAD for the BBC micro emulator too?

 

[Boinkspaggle]

Could you please produce a Wii Forwarder Channel for the BBC Micro Emulator?

 

[ploggy]

This is beautiful cant believe I'm only now seeing this. I used the BBC Micro alot in school when I was younger
I remember playing some Little Red Riding Hood game on it. Ahhh memories
Any chance this can be ported to WiiU/Switch? if not I'll just use it in vWii mode, but this emu screams Touchscreen Keyboard

 

[ploggy]

@Wiimpathy would you consider adding WiiU Gamepad support?

 

[AmandaRose]

Wow a BBC Micro emulator. The beeb brings back so many memories for me. My school had a whole load of them and me and my friend Anne used to sneak into the computer room at lunch time and play Chuckie Egg or Elite. After a while we got caught and we got a weeks detention and a lecture from the Head teacher

 

[ploggy]

Wow a BBC Micro emulator. The beeb brings back so many memories for me. My school had a whole load of them and me and my friend Anne used to sneak into the computer room at lunch time and play Chuckie Egg or Elite. After a while we got caught and we got a weeks detention and a lecture from the Head teacher

We had BBC Micros in both Infants and Junior Schools. I remember playing a game called Grannies Garden at the time I was in awe of it lol
I actually tried Chuckie Egg yesterday on Beebem Classics never die!

 

[AmandaRose]

We had BBC Micros in both Infants and Junior Schools. I remember playing a game called Grannies Garden at the time I was in awe of it lol
I actually tried Chuckie Egg yesterday on Beebem Classics never die!

There was always this weird rumour in my School that if you pressed the red function keys the BBC would break beyond repair. Even the teachers believed it for some reason

 

[ploggy]

There was always this weird rumour in my School that if you pressed the red function keys the BBC would break beyond repair. Even the teachers believed it for some reason

Ha, I never heard about any rumor like that, lol I know for a fact the kids in my School would be smashing those red keys all day if it were true

 

[fandango]

Could you please produce a Wii Forwarder Channel for the BBC Micro Emulator?

Yeah it would be great to see a Wii forwarder for BeebemWii.