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

Jun 11, 2025

Econet LAN Party 2025

Last weekend I made a trip to the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) to attend two back-to-back days of Econet glory! This was my first ever Econet LAN party and it was ace. I got to experience what it's like having a large roomful of Acorns all networked together, playing competitive Elite, bidding on machines I don't really need and enjoying some first class talks from the likes of Rob "Networ

Econet In A Nutshell - Part 1

Econet In A Nutshell - Part 1First in a two-part video series exploring the wonderful world of Econet, Acorn's very own network.In this video I'll be taking a look at the history of Econet, what it is, how it works, what you need to run it and what you can actually do with it once it's up and running.I've been helped a lot in this video by a number of people, but I'd like to especially thank IanS

What, exactly, is the 'server' in a Language Server?

It's been a few weeks since I last wrote about the progress I've been making on the Psion OPL language server front. This is, at least in part, because I've been spending my free time getting to grips with Pascal - my chosen programming language for this particular endeavour. To help me on this journey, I got hold of a copy of Marco Cantù's splendid “Object Pascal Handbook”, which while writt

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