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 Blog Posts From Colin

Dec 13, 2025

Getting carried away (and how to stop it)

I somehow found some free time to pick up my OPL language server project again a couple of days ago and realised it had a glaring bug that would have caused mayhem for anyone who might have attempted to use it since I first published the code earlier this year. Placing the language server logic inside a while 1=1 loop was, it turns out, not such a smart idea, because in so doing, the C

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

A working proof of concept language server!

Reading back over my preceding posts on this topic, it's fair to say I've been fumbling around quite a bit since first deciding to take on my project of building a language server for OPL, which makes today's post a rather more triumphant one because I can now say “I've made a thing”! Yes, my proof of concept language server is now up and running, and while it is not what you might call especi

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