0081 ROM and SD card upgrades for the BBC Master 128

[@ianbishop247]

Always nice to see a box of candy....many years ago I worked for a UK Dumb terminal manufacturer in their repair department. The terminals were often used in industrial applications, one of which was a UK based candy (sweet) manufacturer. They would send their terminals for repair packed with bags of candy. Well you can guess who's terminals got repaired first! Great way to jump the repair queue :-)

[@BottIsNotABot]

BBC Basic, possibly the finest version of Basic ever created. Love seeing the BBC show up on your channel. Blows my mind how powerful these machines were. My first experience of networking was with BBCs at school. Being able to save and load your basic programs off the network at the start and end of Computer Science lessons was so cool. Seemed like a backward step when I went to college to do my A-Levels and having to save my Pascal code to floppy disk as the College PCs were not networked.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

I find it a hit-and-miss version to be honest. Sure, the way it handles functions is awesome, and the speed is great too (hello C64!), but it lacks on other basic stuff. There is no decent uppercase/lower case tolerance, there is no EDIT function, the error's are laughable, and horrible disk operating commands.

[@SparkyMAWy]

Chuckie Egg. You can press the diection keys together, so pressing up, if you press left before you get to it before releasing up, it changes direction. I could generally get to level 24 back in the day. Chuckie Egg was available for a few platforms.

[@Beany2007FTW]

That, and IIRC you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes the game a bit more dynamic, and jumping 'against ledges' gives you a boost. Lost so many lunchtimes to this game in primary school.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Can it be that Speccy behaviour was not translated to the BBC? I mean, there are tons of Pac-Man versions that don't abide the holy rules of Pac-Man control. Pac-Man keeps going into the direction until it bumps into a wall, and you can send short "direction change instructions" ahead of T-junctions. So if you are in a tunnel to the left, and you shortly press up, Pac will remember that and go up as soon as it can.

[@davidwalz3317]

I honestly think the ADB community would be totally fine with him focusing on organizing for a couple weeks. Maybe an "October Organizing" series or something.

[@iroll]

If that livestream happens while I'm at work I would definitely have it going.

[@oliverer3]

​@@irollSame, sounds like it would be good motivation to organize stuff myself!

[@levmonster5156]

I agree. The odd vlog type video on organising stuff sounds good. Other KZbinrs do videos when they modify their spaces.

[@TheGreatAtario]

Adam Savage's Tested-style "shop infrastructure" video would be worthwhile

[@Agnarian]

Nice idea!

[@JeepinBoon]

Adam Savage from Mythbusters has great organizational videos for your shop. Me, I use Plano tackle boxes, Christmas ornament organizers, and filing cabinets to organize everything from nuts and bolts to connectors to components to power supplies. An old clothing display for cables and leads to hang so they don't look like a tangled corkscrew.

[@silne]

Finding it hilarious that you're so excited by blu tack as it's ubiquitous in Australia. I'm the same age as you and remember primary school teachers using it to attach posters to the classroom walls in the 1980s. I currently have a red blob holding a pencil to the front of the fridge so we can find one easily to update the shopping list.

[@EgoChip]

There's a trick to Chuckie Egg, you press the up/down button just before you get to the ladder (and likewise, pressing left/right to walk off them onto a platform) then it plays really smooth and easy. You can also jump on to ladders by holding up or down while you jump. And jump off ladders too. After a bit of practice you'll be addicted.

[@bewilderbeestie]

I was at the NMOC at Bletchley Park and went into their BBC Micro lab. One of the machines had a boot menu of games and applications. Chuckie Egg was on it; I fired it up, and about ten minutes later one of the staff wandered by and said, 'You do know how addictive that is, right?'

[@JamesNoms]

The jump and eating seed sound effects from Chuckie Egg were seared into my brain at about 6 years old along with Candyfloss lol ;)

[@kwanchan6745]

getting an optimal key definition is critical...use the same definition as acornsoft snapper/pacman

[@2Worlds_and_InBetween]

yep. I even said it out loud. .. "hold the up key" I spent many a night locked into chuckie egg'ness after spending all day trying to become _mostly harmless_ loved my mod b

[@danbuc]

Yeah, it's pacman style controls, hold the direction before you get to the ladder

[@ukwebb]

Glad you like the SD board - PS I've just sent you an email with an updated Multi Mos Rom that fixes the issues you faced here :)

[@mwwhited]

For your organization issues. Something that works for me with small components is 3ring binders with playing card sheets and little ziplocks. It’s good for capacitors like, resistors, diodes, transistors and even ICs. It could be better and I recommend spending the extra few dollars to get the card sheets with the tabs to hold cards in…but over all its high density and fairly low cost.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

Welcome to Adrian's confectionary basement.

[@JayBlueWhisper]

Forget component organiser, you need a haribo organiser :D

[@olavl8827]

Lifelong black licorice addict here. Yes, I'm Dutch. Can't eat too much of the stuff anymore on account of high blood pressure but my mouth still absolutely waters just thinking about it, and I don't have that reaction to most other foods or snacks. I think you're right that it helps if you're exposed to it in childhood. But that's probably true for most treats that are perhaps not the easiest to love. I mean I shudder when I think about having to eat deepfried spiders but people in Cambodia think nothing of it. For them it's just a tasty/crunchy snack.

[@patrickelliott2169]

It is also possible for exposure to have the opposite effect. In much of Europe, the basic flavor profile of Root Beer is often used in medicine, creating a very negative response in many people, and I would argilue that licorice has sometimes been used as that in the US, such as Niqual. Even the cherry flavor of some medicines has more "licorice like" taste to it than actual cherry with there literally only being one type I have ever liked, the others being too, "salty and bitter", the literal characteristics described as being prone to occur in licorice candies.

[@olavl8827]

@@patrickelliott2169 You may be right. Some Vermouth fortified wines ("Martini") taste like cough syrup to me and it's absolutely revolting.

[@FirstLast-we8cb]

'Murican here who was the weird kid that liked black licorice. Then I moved to Norway and found really awesome salted black licorice. Now I'm older and like you have to watch blood pressure.😢

[@lovemadeinjapan]

The Haribo stuff has NOTHING to do with "drop", it is a byproduct of German car factories making tires.

[@Locut0s]

I totally agree with the like it cause we are habituated to it hypothesis about food. But I also think that we can totally change our tastes as an adult too even if we have some resistance. I’ve been experimenting with this. I used to hate coffee for the longest time lol. As an adult I’ve now become a lover of strait black coffee just cause I forced myself to drink it for a while. I think actually we can change our tastes for things relatively quickly.

[@zoid9969]

If you type "*FX 0" (without quotes) at the ">" prompt on your Master, it'll tell you which MOS version is running. The top line after you press BREAK is different on each version too: "BBC Computer 32K" = original Model B. "Acorn OS" = Model B+ (64K or 128K). "Acorn MOS" = "Master 128". At 32:25, you're in Model B+ (OS 2.0), but the SD card is plugged into the modem port, which only exists on the Master. If you had it plugged into the user port on the bottom, it may well work on the B and B+. Chuckie Egg: use AZNM or AZ,. (up/down/left/right) and space (jump) for the control keys, it's much easier than using the keypad. OS 1.2 from the original model B is the best operating system for games.

[@TheJimbodean67]

An old trick from my rc plane days. Take baby food jars and run a couple screws through the lid onto a vertical surface. Put small parts like screws and hardware in the jar then use a sharpie to write a description on the bottom of the jar. Just twist the jar onto the secured lid. Great way to recycle. I do recommend putting parts in a small zip lock bag first to avoid spillage.

[@mistie710]

As I recall, the memory map changes depending on what filing systems are loaded, this could be that the older MOS don't really like the way that a Master is set up. The old 1.20 ROM was the first proper ROMs for the BBC Model A and B (there was a 0.10 EPROM released with the earliest BBC A) but the way that the memory is set up changed a lot (e.g. 1.20 didn't handle paged memory beyond the ROMs). A lot of the British computer mags had cheat sheets for the old Acorns. Can't comment on MMFS - that was something that came along later.

[@MrKarateEd]

The earliest MOS was 0.9 but it was terribly buggy. The BBC Micro went through a couple changes to get 2.10

[@McAllen07]

12:20 My ears perked way up when you mentioned LOGO. I saw that being demonstrated at InfoMart, the perpetual technology trade show in Dallas, TX, in 1985. I can remember the robot having a glitch that prevented it from actually drawing the lines on paper, but its movement wasn't impaired at all.

[@EnglishMike]

For Chuckie Egg, you can jump on and off the ladders, which makes things much easier to navigate. Fall distance isn't an issue -- you just have to avoid falling off the bottom of the screen. Funny thing is, a major part of Chuckie Egg's appeal was how easily you could bounce around the screen compared with other contemporary games.

[@bewilderbeestie]

Interestingly, Super Mario Bros had the same super fluid motion that Chuckie Egg had --- but Chuckie Egg came first.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@bewilderbeestie and both are still super impressive to me ngl

[@archibaldbuttle7]

the other thing to do on Chuckie Egg is to just press the up key whilst walking sideways, and then when he comes across a ladder he'll start going up it. no need to be pixel perfect.

[@Jean-LucRichard24]

It's wonderful watching you play Chuckie Egg, I've got so many fond and frustrating memories of this as a child! I'm going to have to dig out my Acorn Electron and get this all going! Pretty sure I have a breakout board for it as well :)

[@nurmr]

15:58 Prestik is the "original" South African reusable putty adhesive made by Bostik (and competes with Henkel's product in the same way that Coca-Cola and Pepsi do in the beverage market).

[@95Comics]

blue tack used to be called fun tack in the states, in fact elementary schools sold it as a combination toy/stationary to kids, but us kids from the 80's had alot less to work with lol the lock tite version is an homage to the great fun we had with fun tak in school in the 80's! lol

[@Inadvisablescience]

Speaking of organizing, just watched a video of Adam Savage working on organizing his workspace and he has an interesting way of making sure he knows what he has. Now, i really cannot imagine you'd use the exact same, but it might help jump start a way for you. And, Colorado means "Colored Red" which I'm guessing most of the gunmies inside are red. But that's just a guess. Thank you for these videos!

[@williamsquires3070]

Hi Adrian. I organize my chips (ICs) by functionality. I’ve got: Op-amps/comparators, oscillators/timers, power amps/current drivers, voltage regulators (78xx & 79xx series), display drivers (LM3914, 7447/8, etc…), telephony, EPROMs, AtoD/DtoA, transistor array, and so on. For popular ones, I keep a maximum of 10 of any part # (like 74LS00 in the “NAND gate” category, or 7805 in “voltage regulator”) in the little plastic bin; extras get stored in a larger plastic bucket (that used to hold styling gel) that I washed and cleaned. I label the bins with a Dymo-brand labeler. For really popular parts, like 7805, 741/1458, 555, etc… I have a whole ‘nuther storage bin thingy just for those, and those are labeled by type as well, but more specific. So that one has bins labeled “Volt. Reg. Pos. Fixed”, for 78xx series, and “Volt. Reg. Neg. Fixed” for 79xx series, and so on. It also has bins for NPN/PNP (small-signal), and NPN/PNP (power), N-/P-channel FETs and MOSFETs, each color of LED (I/R, red, amber, yellow, green, blue/white, and oddball (blinkers, RGB, flicker-flame, bi-color, color-cycling, etc…)), and various types of diodes and rectifiers, all neatly labeled in case the bin takes a trip to the floor by mistake. 😊 When I perish, someone’s going to think I was running my own parts warehouse in my apartment! 😆

[@Ghozer]

I played Chucky Egg so much on the BBC at school :D - tips, jump off the ladders for quicker release, also you can press UP while heading to a ladder and it 'should' grasp it as soon as possible ;)

[@jeromethiel4323]

Love black licorice. The Anise flavor is so good to me. I like anise seed cookies for example. My grandmother on the fathers side used to make pfeferneuse, which is a cookie with anise seeds in them, so they have a mild black licorice flavor. Used to eat the HECK out of those. The weird super salty stuff the Danes love, must be something in the water! ^-^

[@me0262]

2:40 A great way to do this, you can do a livestream or a timelapse of redoing and cleaning the basement. Always think of "would this be great video content".

[@Seafish84]

Adrian if you are running out of wall space remember you are in a basement. Some plywood, piping, and if you want to splurge torsion springs and you can mount all the space you could ever need for components between your floor joists. Can be really cheap and easy. If you are gonna organize it all don't forget to use an IMS which can be just a spreadsheet if need be and label your shelves, boxes and locations well for easy picking.

[@Bob3519]

I’m in the US and love black licorice. Another favorite is Horehound candy. Most people that don’t like black licorice won’t like horehound candy. I also like Root Beer. RB can come in different flavor profiles. I enjoy the variations. Cheers

[@computer_toucher]

Nah you're right, I'm not German (Norwegian here) but "Haribo macht Kinder froh" means "Haribo makes kids happy" (but in rhyme) and we have the same Haribo candies here, but localised into Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish on the same pack. Separate Scandinavian countries are not big enough to justify completely separate packaging in these large-market times... e: those bats are the best. And the licorice wheels. A staple in our household for decades.

[@charlesjmouse]

FWIW: You'll probably find MOS 3.50 the default OS for your Master. OS 1.20 and 2.00 for maximum BBC B and B+ compatibility respectively. I have a similar setup with a toggle switch hidden inside the cartridge slot - I can't remember the last time I used anything other than 3.50. PS: There are patched versions of Chuckie Egg that add more colour, options, levels, etc... that might be worth digging out. Also when you want on / off a platform or ladder press along with and you'll have no trouble - jumping on and off ladders is a thing too! PPS: Do take care with those MMFS ROMs! The modem version has a different I/O address than the standard ones - you also need to make sure you don't have multiple versions loaded or much confusion will result! If you find a really, really old game won't run with MOS 3.50 / 3.20 it's worth trying OS 1.20 / 2.00 as most (rare) incompatibilities are OS rather than hardware related... do be sure when running the likes of MMFS with the older OS's it's still set up as the default FS or you'll have trouble with loading stuff or getting / to work. Better yet, most of the uncommon software that doesn't like the Master OS versions has long-since been patched by the community - a bit of googling or searching StarDot will usually turn up a Master-friendly version. I hope that helps a bit.

[@computer_toucher]

Love your energy and spirit, man, you fast became a staple in my retro subs together with Usagi and LGR and now Bob's and a few others :)

[@MartinAlejandroLiguori]

Please make long videos of you cleaning and organizing your workshop, I'm 100% sure people will love those videos.

[@PiotrStaszewski]

And I figured out on my own that Patafix ("white blue tack" of the local variety) is an awesome way to keep sockets and other such through-hole components in place about a year or two ago. And yes I do reuse it too and yes it gets... less pleasant with uses. A notion of convergent discovery 🙂 Also those super cheap side-cutters, the blue PLATO ones 🤣We all probably get them from exactly the same factory somewhere in southern China.

[@ralfbonenkamp9297]

Yeah - DACH is indeed Germany(D), Austria (A) and Swizerland (CH) and at the same time the German word for roof ;-) Actually Haribo was founded in the former capital Bonn of 'old' western Germany (aka BRD) before the reunion and is an abrivation for 'HAns RIgel BOnn'. Hans Rigel was the founder of the company. Many thanks for your very entertaining and interesting videos Adrian! Greetings from Germany

[@joefarr3304]

Put things in numbered bags (antistatic when needed), put the bags into plastic storage totes so they can be stacked and not collapse, write on the box the range of bags it contains, and put the whole lot into an EXCEL spread sheet so you can search for part numbers. Works for me and I have a mass of stuff.

[@mrmiyagi5]

Wow that German Haribo candy haul is lit

[@fattomandeibu]

Blu Tack is also really good for getting off old residue, dust and bits of leftover Blu Tack off of things. Of course, this gets it dirty real quick, but it's such great stuff when you're working on things, or even just want to hang up a poster without making holes.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

I took plywood and hinges and mounted it to shelving units that I anchored to the wall. If I need something off the shelf, I raise the storage piece above the shelf (hinge at top, swing upward). I have a lot of these.

[@PriorUniform721]

Re: Organization. For small parts with a lot of values, instead of parts organizers I bought some baseball card sheets. I put the components in small 2x3" bags and then slip those in the card slots. For through hole resistors, ceramic caps, small signal diodes/zeners it has worked out pretty well.

[@MarianoLu]

Adrian for organizing components the Home Depot brand organization boxes for screws and bolts are great for components, they are flat, stackable and have compartments which are great for ICs and electronics the good thing is that they do not take a lot of space as you can stack them, I have them all with labels on the side, the good thing is you can have them on a shelf and bring the one with the “family “ you need to the workbench I’ll see if I can post a link here.

[@EricJorgensen]

Aside, you can also get swiss-made watchmaker's grade bluetak, though it comes in a bright blue-green and a dull gray. Called Rodico, by Bergeon. The gray stuff is stickier and leaves less residue. None of them leave much residue, but for watchmakers even a little is a lot. Also A&F Rub-Off, which is a bit waxier and dark blue. These are used for cleaning because they absorb oil, grit, and fibers. Also to hold parts for inspection, and to pick up impossibly tiny parts without tweezers that might slip and launch the part off the work bench. And if you're looking for more color variety, I can also recommend HandiTak by SuperGlue, which is bright yellow.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I definitely agree it's about being exposed to certain flavours early enough. I love Marmite and I love licorice, but my grandmother gave me lots of both before I was even 2 or 3 years old. Licorice is not exactly uncommon for kids here in the UK but it's still generally regarded by kids as somewhat of a "lesser" or "old fashioned" sweet compared to other more-American gummies and the like; even among kids who don't hate it. Heck, I even like chewing on actual licorice root, but... yeah, the saltier (not necessarily more-bitter) the better for me when it comes to licorice - black OR red. So yeah, those German all-licorice Haribos look GREAT to me hahah

[@skelbagz]

Chuckie Egg is unquestionably the greatest game ever created. I loved playing it on my CPC464

[@Gannett2011]

Chuckie Egg is a classic! I don't want to think of how many hours in the 80s (and later!) I wasted playing that game. The best version was for the ZX Spectrum. As for Blu Tack, the original is the bomb. I now live in the US, and use the white poster putty stuff, but however good it is, it doesn't have that marvellous blu tack smell!

[@TheDefpom]

Wow chuckie egg… i used to play that game had completely forgotten about it, well it was 40 years ago !

[@davidwilliams4845]

You could totally do a video about the parts organization. Construct the wall, mount the drawers, and the sorting.

[@andrewdunbar828]

In most of these games you don't have to be pixel perfect, you simply hold the key down for the other direction before you need it and your character will change directions as soon as possible. I just checked with the Speccy Chuckie Egg and it works as I remember. If you're going left or right toward a ladder you want to climb just keep holding down left or right and then also hold down up or down while heading to the ladder and it will climb it as soon as its in the right spot, then release the left or right key unless you also want to get off the latter at the first opportunity.

[@Joliie]

6:25 the best bag of em all ;)

[@andrewarmenia1461]

My strategy to organize components: Put them into standard size paper coin envelopes or plastic bags. Label every one. Find a container that can hold lots of the envelopes... I use some steel compartment boxes with internal plastic dividers. Put envelopes in, keep sorted. I have 100 or more types of random transistors and ICs packed into an 18" x 12" x 4" box this way. And other boxes with different types of small parts (screws, nuts, bolts, pipe fittings). It's a lot more dense than the small plastic drawers. The boxes that I have fit nicely into an IKEA bookshelf. Cardboard bin boxes also can work well for holding sorted stacks of envelopes or bags, and they're a lot cheaper than the steel boxes.

[@jayviescas7703]

I hate the unsweetened salt licorice but love the sweet unsalted black licorice. I was the weird kid who begged for black jellybeans for Easter. My favorite black licorice is Panda because it's sweetened with molasses - yeah, I'm a still a big weirdo who also likes the flavor of molasses. I got my "strange" tastes for "odd" foods from my mom. We also were the only ones in our family that liked or loved sardines, onions, bell peppers, powdered milk, spinach etc. The only two foods I despise to this day are rutabaga and coriander/cilantro.

[@tonyupham354]

I am pretty much like you.. I am Type 2 and too be honest, if someone puts sweets near me, I will still eat them! As for the whole liquorice dilemma! I love liquorice but I am more addicted to anise balls (if I ever come across them!) - Ok, Haribo are good but I am more inclined to get Maynards Bassetts Jelly Babies or Liquorice Allsorts! Love the channel and the wide variety of tinkering!

[@MickOhrberg]

"...approaching my fifties..." Adrian you're so cute :D :D All joking aside, love your content! And yeah, black licorice is one I can't get enough of. Salty, "Turkish Pepper", salmiac (ammonium chloride, YUM) - and yeah I'm Swedish :D

[@icehengeUK]

For component storage I always use Duratool D01933 Assortment Cases or the original version by Raaco not sure if they are available in your are i couldn't find them on Amazon outside of the UK but if you can get them they stack very high when not in use.

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

You know what though Adrian, once all your components and parts are OGRANIZED, that'll be that and you can keep inventory of what you need and what you don't.. it's SO nice and it is TOTALLY worth the weekend it takes to get organized. So worth it!

[@speez3354]

Best thing to do with your parts bin is to make a rolling rack so this way you can tuck it out of way or in front of existing shelves or next to hot water tank. When needed you pull it out next to bench need be.

[@OzRetrocomp]

ahhh... good old Blu-Tack a.k.a. Sinclair repair kit 😁

[@talon262]

I had never heard of blutack or Sugru before I found Techmoan lol

[@MacCrafter707]

3 drawer filing cabinets are life savers

[@tubejay1]

Man, I love black Licorice. I don't really understand why people don't like it. It's a unique, good flavor. I had it quite a bit growing up in Wisconsin, USA.

[@ctb___]

Dang, I'm not much of a candy person but those Haribos look super fun! Enjoy!

[@seanoconnor8843]

The ring bound user guide for the model B is what you need. The welcome guide supplied with the master is just what's different from the model B. I've still got my well thumbed copies

[@2Worlds_and_InBetween]

yes, I still have mine . I've got the standard one and an advanced one in a box with an electron I should be doing something with. I've also got a hand written note book full of my codes /hacks /undocumented stuff. I've posted pages from it on my Minds account a while back, I should be using that more.

[@HamburgerAmy]

Adrian and the great sugar level fight of 2024

[@adamwhite2364]

I'm in that fight, but my sensor keeps disconnecting...err retreating from the field of battle

[@joetheman74]

Back when I was in middle school (I'm 50 now) I had a teacher that was a huge fan of Fun Tak. Every time she would use it in class she would also act like a human advertisement for the product. Always trying to remind us how much better it was to hang things on the wall with Fun Tak rather than putting holes in the walls with thumb tacks.

[@SophieFeet]

Chuckie Egg - Its a lot easier when you work out you can jump towards the ladders holding the up/down key to grab it mid air ;) Makes the game loads faster and more fun. Also i used to use N M Z S and A or similar as control keys... Much easier!!

[@franktriggs]

I call it organised chaos. I know where everything is even though nothing is organised.

[@robwebster7406]

Love the basic command, the vdu command sticks out the most 😊

[@catriona_drummond]

The black licorice thing is interesting. We are roughly the same age and I have found my taste somewhat changing in the last few years too. My greatest surprise is beer. I hated beer, all my life, especially Pilsner, which is especially bitter. And while I am still not and never will be a beer drinker I have found myself in more and more situations in which i actually craved and very much enjoyed a milder beer. Either with some food, or while it was really hot outside. The occasions become more frequent. Definitely not something I eve expected to happen.

[@jayfowler4747]

Wow.. chuckie egg was one of the games bundled with my electron.. that brings back memories... caterpillar was another i spent many hours playing.. i wish i still had them but like everything electronic i pulled it apart......

[@rajatanpacelana]

About the licorice, I was born in The Netherlands but my parents are Indonesians from the islands molucas (maluku). I really love it they called drops especially the soft sweet licorice once. The hole family love it except my dad.. When I moved to Indonesia nobody likes the licorice candies maybe its true depends from where you are born and the situation where are that somehow it teach the brain to like.... btw licorice is also a tranditional medicine if you have a dry cough. But anyway I really love your videos and I really wish I have a amiga,C64 or a MSX here in Indonesia after I watch you videos... actually I am planning buy one.. If my friends is comming over to Indonesia.. Keep the videos posting adrian,greetings from Jakarta.

[@paulchamberlain7942]

I am commenting after only 1:30 and you have exposed one of the great truths of life. Free stuff is never free. Free stuff increases life complexity. Free stuff will cost many searches for things that may or may not be owned. Or just much harder to find. Free stuff can increase life complexity to the point where it is hard to function, and where guilt about unfinished projects and unused stuff can start to set in. And it will get worse. Free stuff can cost so much over time. Beware of free stuff :)

[@BilisNegra]

28:20 Even knowing there's a connection, it's still funny to watch a page like this and have to take a couple of seconds to realize this is NOT teletext.

[@SimonSideburns]

Just saw you empty the first box, and proper organisation of your candy is vitally important, so those drawers sound ideal!

[@mousefad3673]

I quite like the idea of some videos about sorting and organising components. No idea how general the appeal would be, but I think I would find it satisfying in the same way that I like videos that include cleaning and prettying up old grubby hardware...

[@evileyeball]

I found it super funny when I got diagnosed as a T2, and discovered that two of the bigger youtubers I follow (You and Techmoan) are both T1 people.

[@preferredimage]

BBC version of chuckie egg was the definitive version... Hold the secondary direction as you run past a ladder and it'll lock on IIRC... Revs is a brilliant driving game for the beeb too and is on that sd image... I wish there was a better way to edit the menu and discs but it uses an old app which edits a single giant master file so isnt easy to add/remove stuff. super cheap to build though, as you know.

[@thomasschlitzer7541]

Yes, it is German. Haribo macht Kinder froh und Erwachsene ebenso. That's their marketing slogan for since I was a little kid. I'm 48. It means something like "Haribo make kids happy and adults too". Just in German it rhymes. The address is the heaquarter of Haribo in Bonn (north-rhine westphalia). Enjoy! In Germany from when young we are taught that licorice is healthy and helps not getting a flu and such. Not sure it ever helped but I nearly never get sick. Maybe it's the same in the Netherlands? I guess we just get used to it. I love that stuff and the Lakritzschnecken are my favorites. (Licorice snails ... yea I know, it's because it goes in circles. Nothing to do with slime :D) Me again, did you say that licorice is bitter? That's funny because for me it tastes sweet and not bitter at all. Hmm wonder why now.

[@fragglet]

Blu Tack is the sky blue we have in England :)

[@tramadol42]

Yepp, genuine german original Haribo's. You are in need of a Haribo Organizing shelf😋

[@snafu2350]

ISTR the physical location of the ROMs on the mainboard were prioritised, so if you put (eg) the DFS ROM in the OS ROM's slot, you could only access the DFS: you couldn't access the OS because *ROM (or whatever the command was) was on the OS.. which couldn't be addressed because the DFS was taking its priority! Or something like that..

[@pederb82]

I agree with you that a lot of licorice is awful tasting when you are not used to the palette. But. There is sweet licorice and I love that. It’s not bitter or salty like the other stuff. The only danger when you get to one of those is that you can’t just have one bite and it’s lactating. 😂

[@nahumgardner]

When I was a kid all the teachers in school had it for their posters in Ohio in the US. My girlfriend's a teacher and I have seen it around the school, but I don't know if it's old.

[@AltimaNEO]

Looking on US Amazon, seems like you can get actual Blu Tack on there for six bucks, the original stuff. I remember teachers using that stuff back in school ages ago.

[@GrahamTinkers]

On Chuckie Egg, press up/down before you reach the ladder, left/right before you reach the platform. Try and get to level 9, it’s the same as level 1, but the bird in the cage starts chasing you and it does not use the platforms 😊

[@MichaelZweifel]

Thanks to you I'm hooked on Haribo I like the fruit chews Peach and Watermelon and some of the other ones. Keep up the great videos.

[@JayAlfredoG]

I used poster putty to hang posters when I was a teenager. They was 30 years ago.

[@bbjunkie]

Spent many a rainy day during the summer holidays playing chuckie egg. I don’t recall it being so difficult to navigate the ladders on the Acorn Electron. I think you could press left or right and an up or down together. Perhaps this doesn’t work on the BBC if hardware can’t do multiplexing ?

[@gr4eme1975]

it was great to see Citadel on the games list, I had this on the electron and spent way too many hours drawing a giant map of each room I entered to try and work out the game lol

[@seanoconnor8843]

I love licorice. My favorite was licorice sticks filled with sherbet. Really nice 👍

[@pepstein]

Organizing your stuff is a great idea. You could do a couple videos on it too.

[@AntonyTCurtis]

BBC BASIC is one of the fastest BASIC implementations on 8 bit.

[@nigefoxx]

Been a while, and I forget if it'll run on the Master but go see if Thrust, by Acirnsoft is in that list. Very impressive (and addictive) game considering the hardware.

[@AndrewRoberts11]

If a game fails to load, crashes, or you end up with screen artefacts, select OS 1.2 for compatibility, as many of the early games expect the 32 K memory map of the original BBC B, and occasionally the 16K BBC A, and use every last free byte, from page zero up. Bytes sometimes used by later MOS versions. If your going to use ORIGINAL games disks, at any point, you might want to stick an old Intel 8271 single density disk controller in one of your BBC B, as a few developers exploited quirks of the Intel chip (other than the heat it produced to keep a room warm), that they had in their own machines, to create proprietary formats, in an attempt to protect their software. Was a bit of an issue as far more machines had a switchable single/double density, non storage heater, WD 1770 or WD 1772 disk controller, that had their own quirks, and could create a different set of non-standard formats, and even swap density between sectors. Which obviously wouldn't be accessible on a machine with an 8271 and vice versa. Then again almost everything has been imaged by now, and available on SDcard, or via Econet. If you have time have a look at Repton 2 or 3.

[@AlejandroJCura]

I think we would even watch if you make a video putting up the shelves and drawers, and another one sorting chips and talking about them. I also need to sorty components, and would love to take tips and ideas from any system you devise!

[@ThePCPitChannel]

Quick tip for Chuckie Egg… hold the up/down as you approach the ladder ;),

[@Novalight2550]

Man, that candy looks good.

[@VinceWaldon]

10 points shall be awarded to Gryffindor for the Network 23 reference. :)

[@63801170]

Adrian, perhaps you need a 2nd channel video "polling" ideas on how to organise your gear? It would be exposing the type of items you have to sort out, the space available, then take comment feedback (*yeah, scary!) on suggestions. Then make a video taking those comments into a solution and show the build and sorting... that way, it fits into your "recording" schedule and will no doubt be interesting as well.

[@highroyds]

You could have a draw led lit up device, someone’s got a video showing how they designed one where you can select the item you want and if it’s in the stock the draw lights up.

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Adrian: you should try running Exile or Stryker's Run (Enhanced versions) on the Master.

[@G7VFY]

Where it says on the bottom of your BBC Master 'Network 23' that is from the short film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. Watch out for BLIPVERTS!

[@jmpiv4]

You could cut down some plywood and cover the ends of your upright shelves and mount the organizers on the sides of the shelves.