Colin Hoad

Acorn Hobbyist

Hello! I'm Colin and I make videos about my love of all things Acorn - the BBC Micro, BBC Master, Acorn Electron and all the games and software these mighty machines are capable of running.

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Latest From Colin Hoad

Oct 20, 2025

ABUG South - October 2025

It's that time of year again - ABUG South, the Autumn edition. I had another great time at this superb event surrounded by like-minded Acorn fans, tinkering around with old machines and finding out about everyone's projects, as well as enjoying some great (and some not so great!) games and excellent chat. I hope you enjoy this small taster video of what I got up to.Thanks again from me to Kieran f

"Mac & Cheese" Fixathon - October 2025

On 11th and 12th October, as part of my volunteering with the Acorn team at the National Museum of Computing, I helped to run a fixathon event, dubbed the "Mac & Cheese" fixathon, due to the focus on Apple Macintosh classics and Acorn cheese wedge units. This event was huge fun and also delivered some great results for the museum, including a full triage of countless machines and breathing life ba

Getting into the Pascal groove

After the recent breakthrough I had with getting my language server working, I decided to invest some time into refactoring what I've built so far - partly to make the work of extending the language server easier as I move forwards and also as a useful exercise in getting closer to Pascal and how to write better code.I read up on the correct naming conventions for Pascal variables, classes, types

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