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

Jan 20, 2025

Fitting Sim City into 20k of memory - Acorn Dev Histories (1)

In 1990, Superior Software released Sim City, an official BBC Micro port of the original Maxis game. But unlike that original, which ran on an Amiga with 512k of memory, the BBC Micro edition used just 20k!Hear from Peter Scott about how this incredible feat of programming was achieved as he reflects on his memories of putting the game together, what it involved and how he feels about that achieve

Choosing a Linux distro (the hard way)

Deciding on a development environment for my OPL language server project proved to be more of a challenge than I was initially expecting. I may have made the road harder than it needed to be by deciding from the outset to make use of my ASUS X71Q laptop, a veritable beast of a machine… from 2010. Yes, it may only have 4GB of RAM and a dual core Pentium T4200 2GHz processor, but I've since fitted

ABug North - January 2025

A short report on my time at ABug North, January 2025! My second in-person ABug, but the first one up north! It was, as always, an absolute pleasure, and although I didn't manage to film everything I saw and did, hopefully this gives a taster of what the event was like. Big thanks to Dave 'Arcadian' Moore and Daniel J for their help organising and running the event, and to all the wonderful attend

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