Date   : Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:38:15 +0200
From   : david@... (David Boddie)
Subject: BBC archive ?

On Sat Jul 30 22:38:00 BST 2011, Rick Murray wrote:

> I understand that the rights issue of the Acorn stuff is a mess, but
> then (IANAL!) that means it is highly unlikely anybody will take action
> given the amount of time/resources/expense in determining who really
> owns what...
> ...however what I'm afraid of is the more time that goes by, the more
> stuff will be lost. Lost to negligence, lost to a wife tidying up "old
> rubbish", lost to bit rot, lost to damage (floods, fire, insects,
> mould), lost to a myriad of reasons - but lost is still lost.
>
> Look on a Beeb resource site. Games, yes? ROMs? Yes? Well, every single
> bit of that had a source, somewhere. How much of it still exists?

Ian Bell published the sources for Elite and Free Fall, so that's a start.
;-)

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/games.htm

I seem to remember reading, or watching a video, of an interview with Steve
Furber where he mentioned digging around in some old discs for some ARM
prototyping code, so perhaps there might be more where that came from.

David