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

Jul 19, 2026

The Zero Page - Poking Bytes

Welcome to this companion video accompanying the "Custom Characters" video, which was episode 2 in my "Thinking In 6502" series. Here, I take a closer look at some of the topics covered in that video, including how to write better loops by leveraging the properties of 8-bit mathematics, as well as a deeper dive into operating system subroutines - and how to work without them, if you're brave enoug

Thinking in 6502 - Custom Characters

Second episode in a new series of videos looking at programming in 6502 assembly code! In this second video, I examine how custom characters and user defined graphics work on an Acorn 8-bit machine, in order to demonstrate how you can use 6502 assembly to print custom characters - and even fill the screen with them in more than double the speed of a higher level language like BASIC!My aim with thi

Econet LAN Party 2026

My second Econet LAN Party, this time helping to run the event as a volunteer at the National Museum of Computing!The 2026 Econet LAN Party was a roaring success and I had a wonderful time, with highlights including Elite over Econet, a special "capture the flag" Econet game and very special guests, including Acorn's own Professor Stve Furber (principal designer of both the BBC Micro and the ARM c

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