05-12-2023, 01:54 PM
Just thinking maybe the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron should be merged together, some arguments for the merger:
1 ) They are both from the same manufacturer (Acorn makes the BBC Micro and the upgraded Master). The Electron is to put it simply, a redesigned version of the BBC Micro accessible for the home as that computer was expensive and was mainly at UK schools back in the 1980s (comparable to the Apple II in the US). They have the same main graphics mode, same processor.
2 ) They share a library with many games that would work on both computers. The compatibility between the two varies due to some technical differences e.g. any Teletext mode games won't work on the Electron, cutdown sound on the Electron, speed differences. Some games especially later releases were dual coded or had a revision that would work on both. tSR only has 1 Electron rip that also has a BBC Micro counterpart while Chuckie Egg, Chess (Acornsoft) and Podd that got Micro rips are also on the Electron.
While the main BBC Micro site doesn't list Electron compatibility (but does on Model A, B and Master, mostly B), Acorn Electron World however does list system compatibility on a game e.g. BBC/Electron or Acorn Electron.
2a) The library situation is similar to according to the site; the DS/DSi, Game Boy, Neo Geo and Amiga or in a way Master System/Game Gear.
3 ) If the Atari systems and computers (outside of Atari ST and Lynx) have its own section and the LeapFrog merger that happened...
If it does get merged, propose that it gets the BBC Micro name as it is more well known of the two, unless tSR gets rips from the earlier (Atom) or later (Archimedes, RISC OS based) Acorn computers in the future. Then again those are a lot more different.
1 ) They are both from the same manufacturer (Acorn makes the BBC Micro and the upgraded Master). The Electron is to put it simply, a redesigned version of the BBC Micro accessible for the home as that computer was expensive and was mainly at UK schools back in the 1980s (comparable to the Apple II in the US). They have the same main graphics mode, same processor.
2 ) They share a library with many games that would work on both computers. The compatibility between the two varies due to some technical differences e.g. any Teletext mode games won't work on the Electron, cutdown sound on the Electron, speed differences. Some games especially later releases were dual coded or had a revision that would work on both. tSR only has 1 Electron rip that also has a BBC Micro counterpart while Chuckie Egg, Chess (Acornsoft) and Podd that got Micro rips are also on the Electron.
While the main BBC Micro site doesn't list Electron compatibility (but does on Model A, B and Master, mostly B), Acorn Electron World however does list system compatibility on a game e.g. BBC/Electron or Acorn Electron.
2a) The library situation is similar to according to the site; the DS/DSi, Game Boy, Neo Geo and Amiga or in a way Master System/Game Gear.
3 ) If the Atari systems and computers (outside of Atari ST and Lynx) have its own section and the LeapFrog merger that happened...
If it does get merged, propose that it gets the BBC Micro name as it is more well known of the two, unless tSR gets rips from the earlier (Atom) or later (Archimedes, RISC OS based) Acorn computers in the future. Then again those are a lot more different.