last updated October 29, 2006
Andys Acorn Electron Page
Stuff I own:
| item | description |
| Acorn Electron with Jafa RAM board, turbo+64k, with a plus 1 interface | My everyday used elk. Managed to find a 64k ram board after months of searching, fitted it myself and it works brilliant :) |
| Plus 1 Interface | boxed immaculate, for keeps. |
| Ferguson Data Recorder | this thing is so damn reliable, and dependable, I wish I had one of these when I was a kid, it loads everything painlessly! |
| Solidisk - Disk drive interface | This thing allows you to use hard disks, as well as floppy drives, i have it hooked up to a 5.25" floppy disk drive. It supports all disc formats and auto-switches for each, it really is a magic bit of kit. It plugs into a cart port on the plus 1. |
Do you have a 64k Acorn Electron?
are you wondering just which BBC titles are compatible with it?
Then you need to CLICK HERE to
see a page i made up from my own experiences.
CLICK
HERE if you want to buy any Acorn Electron
or BBC B games, i have loads for sale!!
GAMES I'M KEEPING:
I love text adventures, as can be seen from the list below.
| I recently picked up a Scott Adams Adventure International "The Official Scott Adams' Adventure Hint Book" which contains coded hint pages for each game that Scott Adams wrote, the Questprobe series games are stapled to the inside front cover as it looks like they were produced after the book was printed. |  |
All games are Acorn Electron versions unless otherwise stated.
| Title | publisher |
NOTES Click the acorn logo to see a picture. |
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| Acorn User Games Compendium | Acorn User | text adventure | has 2 text adventures on it
|
| Adventure | Program Power | text adventure | |
| Adventure 1 - Adventureland | Adventuresoft | text adventure | |
| Adventure 2 - Pirate Adventure | Adventuresoft | text adventure | BBC Version |
| Adventure 3 - Secret Mission | Adventuresoft | text adventure | I dumped this for stairwaytohell.com |
| Adventure 4 - Voodoo Castle | Adventuresoft | text adventure | BBC Version |
| Adventure 5 - The Count | Adventuresoft | text adventure | BBC Version |
| Adventure 6 - Strange Odyssey | Adventuresoft | text adventure | |
| Adventure 7 - Mystery Fun House | Adventuresoft | text adventure | BBC Version |
| Adventure 8 - Pyramid of Doom | Adventuresoft | text adventure | |
| Adventure 10 - Savage Island Part 1 | Tynesoft | text adventure | |
| Adventure 10 - Savage Island Part 2 | Adventuresoft | text adventure |  |
| Adventure 13 - The Sorceror of Claymorgue Castle | Adventuresoft | text adventure |  |
| Balloon Buster | Blue Ribbon | owned from new | |
| Barbarian II | Superior / Blue Ribbon | owned from new | |
| Blue Dragon | MP Software | text adventure | (BBC - needs Jafa 64k mode) |
| Blockbusters | Macsen Software | owned from new | |
| Castle Frankenstein | Epic | text adventure | 
type 1
type 2 |
| Castle Of Skull Lord | Samurai | text adventure | needs
Jafa in 64k mode
|
| Centipede |
Superior |
owned from new | |
| Chuckie Egg | A&F | ||
| Classic Adventure | Melbourne House | text adventure |  |
| Classic Arcade Games | Database Publications | contains 'mayday' text adventure | |
| Countdown to Doom | Acornsoft | text adventure | ROM Cartridge,
box crushed
|
| Colossal Adventure | Level 9 | text adventure | BBC tape only, will not load :( |
| Creepy Cave | Atlantis | owned from new | |
| Crown Jewels | Alligata | text adventure | 'bumper pack' 4 games on one tape |
| Cylon Attack | A&F | owned from new | |
| Denis Through the Drinking Glass | Melbourne House | text adventure | wow! took a long time to find it!
|
| Dodgy Geezers | Melbourne House | text adventure | |
| Dracula Island | Kansas | text adventure |  |
| Ferryman Awaits | Kansas | text adventure | |
| Five Spheres of Goliath | Kansas | text adventure | 
(BBC GAME) |
| Firienwood | MP Software | text adventure | (BBC - needs Jafa 64k mode) |
| Five Stones of Anadon | Softek | text adventure | large
VHS tape style box
|
| Frak | Alternative Software | owned from new | |
| Frenzy | Micro Power | owned from new | |
| Galdriel in Distress | Potter Programs | text adventure |  |
| Galilee | Shards Software | text adventure | |
| Gremlins : The Adventure | Adventuresoft. | text adventure | |
| Harefraiser (Prelude) | Haresoft | text adventure | hard to get to load reliably |
| Hampstead | Melbourne House | text adventure |  |
| Jet Set Willy | Tynesoft | wont load :( | |
| Jet Set Willy 2 | Tynesoft | ||
| Kayleth | US Gold | text adventure | I dumped
this for stairwaytohell.com |
| Kayleth (BBC disk version) |
US Gold | text adventure | 
|
| Last Ninja | Superior / Blue Ribbon | owned from new | |
| Legion | Software Projects | text adventure | (BBC GAME)
|
| Lord
of the Rings (BBC Disk Version) |
Melbourne House | text adventure | (BBC GAME)
|
| Lords Of Time | Level 9 | text adventure | (BBC GAME)
|
| Mysterious Adventure 1-The Golden Baton | Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | crappy
sleeve, blue text on tape label. |
| Mysterious Adventure 1-The Golden Baton | Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | black 'digital' font on tape label, hintsheet
mail-away form intact.
|
| Mysterious Adventure 2 -The Time Machine | Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | same as below, but intact hintsheet
mail-away form.
|
| Mysterious Adventure 2 -The Time Machine | Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Owned from new! hintsheet mail-away
form is missing, but i have the hint sheet that i got back for it!
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 3
-
Arrow Of Death Part 1 |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure |  |
|
Mysterious
Adventure 3
-
Arrow Of Death Part 1 |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | tape label says 'channel 8 software', sleeve
modified to remove paxman promotions logos NOS
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 4
-
Arrow Of Death Part 2 |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Same cover as part 1, but with typed label
on top. Channel 8 Paxman logo removal, tape label is standard old-style
adventure international - NOS
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 5
-
Escape From Pulsar 7 |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure |
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 5
-
Escape From Pulsar 7 |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Paxman
logos removed, tape label is old-style adventure International - NOS
 |
|
Mysterious
Adventure 6 -
Circus |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure |
missing hintsheet mail-away form. |
|
Mysterious
Adventure 8-
The Wizard Akyrz |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Paxman logos removed - NOS 
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 9-
Perseus & Andromeda |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Paxman logos removed - NOS 
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 10-
Ten Little Indians |
Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure | Paxman logos removed - NOS 
|
| Mysterious Adventure 11 - Waxworks | Adventuresoft/Paxman | text adventure |  |
| Mysterious Adventure 2 -The Time Machine | Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure | BBC
complete box BLUE version
|
| Mysterious Adventure 2 -The Time Machine | Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure | BBC version
tape only
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 3
-
Arrow Of Death Part 1 |
Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure | no booklets
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 3
-
Arrow Of Death Part 1 |
Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure | small
case/tape/insert only (from BLUE box version) 
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 5
-
Escape From Pulsar 7 |
Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure |
|
|
Mysterious
Adventure 5
-
Escape From Pulsar 7 |
Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure | |
|
Mysterious
Adventure 8 -
The Wizard Akyrz |
Adventuresoft/ Digital Fantasia |
text adventure |  |
|
Mysterious
Adventure 9-
Perseus & Andromeda |
Adventuresoft/
Digital Fantasia |
text adventure |  |
| Mysterious
Adventure 10 -
Ten Little Indians |
Channel 8 Software/ Adventure International UK |
text adventure | The packaging says Electron, but it is actually the Digital Fantasia BBC version, works fine though. |
| Omega Orb | A.S.L | owned from new | |
| Oxbridge | Tynesoft | text adventure | |
| Pimania | Automata |  |
|
| Play It Again Sam | Superior | Thrust, Citadel, Strykers Run, Ravenskull | |
| Predator | Superior / Blue Ribbon | owned from new | |
| Puppet Man | Larsoft | text adventure |  |
| Questprobe : Spiderman | Adventure International | text adventure | original
big box version!
|
| Questprobe : Spiderman | Adventuresoft/Americana | text adventure | (BBC
but runs in normal mode)
|
| Questprobe : The Hulk | Adventuresoft/Americana | text adventure | (BBC
- needs Jafa 64k mode) 
|
| Questprobe : The Hulk | Adventure International | text adventure | electron version, but badly crushed box. |
| Questprobe : The Hulk | Adventure International | text adventure | (BBC
- needs Jafa 64k mode)
|
| Questprobe : Fantastic Four Part One | Adventuresoft/all-american | text adventure | |
| Return to Eden | Level 9 | text adventure | (BBC
GAME) 
|
| Revenge of Zor | Kansas | text adventure | 
|
| Rick Hanson | Robico | text adventure | with adventurers' notebook |
| Rick Hanson 2 : Project Thesius | Robico | text adventure | Beau-jolly release in a 5-star compilation |
| Ring Of Time | Kansas | text adventure |  I dumped this for stairwaytohell.com |
| Robin
Of Sherwood : The Touchstones of Rhiannon |
Adventure international | text adventure | I dumped this for stairwaytohell.com |
| SCOOPS (Pirate Adventure, Strange Odyssey, Voodoo Castle, Buckaroo Banzai) | Adventuresoft | text adventure | |
| Sea Adventure | Virgin | text adventure |  |
| Snowball | Level 9 | text adventure | (BBC
- needs Jafa 64k mode)
|
| Sphere Of Destiny | A.S.L | owned from new | |
| Sphinx Adventure | Acornsoft | text adventure |  |
| Stranded | Superior | text adventure |  |
| Super Agent Flint | Potter Programs | text adventure |  |
| Supergran : The Adventure | Tynesoft | text adventure |  |
| Survivor | MP Software | text adventure | (BBC - needs Jafa 64k mode) |
| Swords And Sorcery | Kansas | text adventure | needs
Jafa in 64k mode
(BBC GAME) |
| Temple of Terror | US Gold / Fighting Fantasy | text adventure |  |
| Terrormolinos | Melbourne House | text adventure |  |
| The Adventure Creator | Incentive | game creation |  |
| The Acornsoft Hits Volume 2 | Acornsoft | Starship Command, Arcadians, Meteors, Snooker | |
| The Eye of Zoltan | Softek | text adventure |  |
| The Ket Trilogy | Incentive | text adventure | |
| The Greedy Dwarf | Dorling Kindersly | text adventure | |
| The Hunt (Search for Shauna) | Robico | text adventure | |
| The Kingdom of Klein | Epic | text adventure |  |
| The Lost Crystal | Epic | text adventure | awesome
full box version
|
| The Magic Sword | Database Publications | text adventure | no big
box, just cassette case/inly/tape
|
| The Pen And The Dark | The Unorthodox Engineers / Mosaic Publishing | text adventure | BBC -
needs jafa 64k mode
|
| The Pay-Off | Bignose Software / Atari | text adventure | BBC - needs jafa 64k mode |
| The Quil : Adventure Writing System | Gilsoft | game creation |  |
| The Quest for the Holy Grail | Epic | text adventure |  |
|
The Rick Hanson
Trilogy |
Robico | text adventure | The whole trilogy, boxed, with unused adventurers' notebook and pen! |
|
The Rick Hanson
Trilogy |
Robico | text adventure | The whole
trilogy tatty box
|
| The Saga of Erik The Viking | Mosaic | text adventure |  |
| The Stolen Lamp | Lothlorien | text adventure | |
| The Village
Of Lost Souls (Realm of Chaos) |
Robico | text adventure | |
| The Wheel of Fortune | Epic Software | text adventure | 
type 1
type 2
type 3 |
| The Worm In Paradise | Level 9 | text adventure | (BBC - needs Jafa 64k mode) |
| Treasure Hunt | Macsen Software | oversize owned from new | |
| Twin Kingdom Valley | Bug-Byte | text adventure | BBC/Electron (C) APS 1985 |
| Twin Kingdom Valley | Bug-Byte | text adventure | Electron only (C) 1983 |
| Woks | Antartic | owned from new | |
| Woodbury End | Shards Software | text adventure | owned from new |
| Xanadu Adventure | Hopesoft | text adventure | BBC - needs jafa 64k mode |
| Zalaga | Aardvark | oversize |
CLICK HERE if you want to buy any Acorn Electron
or BBC B games, i have loads for sale!!
|
LINKS: |
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| http://electrem.emuunlim.com/ | For years there wasn't an electron emulator, then one day thomas harte decided to make one, and so was born ElectrEm, a very functional emulator with loads of features! |
| http://www.stairwaytohell.com/ | looking for an old game to play on the emulator? you can't doo much better than this place! I've helped out in a very small way over time submitting stuff i have that isn't listed there. |
| http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/ | A supreme website for everything acorn electron related, you really can't do much better than this! |
| http://www.old-computers.com/ | This is what the museum says about the elk, i think its a little bit harsh of a review to be honest. |
| The Wikipedia entry | comprehensive info! |
| Lionel's Crazy Electron | This is what happens when you you really really want it to be like a beeb. |