Colin Hoad's YouTube Channel

08/12/2024

We're 8 days in already!

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the eig...

07/12/2024

What's behind today's door?

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the sev...

06/12/2024

It's the sixth door, and what a treat I have in store for you today 🤪

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the six...

05/12/2024

It's the 5th December and there's a fifth door to open...

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the fif...

04/12/2024

What's behind Door #4 today? 🤔😄

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the fou...

03/12/2024

It's Day 3!

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the thi...

02/12/2024

It's Day 2 of the "Advent of Beeb Games"!

Welcome back to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is th...

01/12/2024

I'm running an "Advent of Beeb Games" series this December, new video every day at 6pm! Today's first entry is here:

Welcome to the Advent of Beeb games, where I take a lucky dip from the Complete BBC Games Archive website and see what the game is all about. This is the fir...

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween! Why not have a play of Ghostbusters, a super spooky homebrew for the BBC Micro from the genius that is Chris Bradburne

Well, it's been a 40 year wait for us Beeb fans, but the time has arrived: Ghostbusters is here on the BBC Micro, thanks to the coding legend that is Chris B...

27/10/2024

What I got up to on Saturday...

I dipped my toe into the waters of RISC OS for the first time by attending the excellent London RISC OS Show on October 26th 2024. This was a great event and...

23/10/2024

Polymer Picker - a new game from Stephen Scott

We're heading underwater in this video as I take a look at Stephen Scott's homebrew Beeb game "Polymer Picker", a lovely title that has you saving the oceans...

17/10/2024

The Peter Scott Trilogy tape! One of the few - possibly the only? - Beeb developers to get his own name on a cassette title 😀 When I interviewed him a couple of years ago, he admitted he was equal parts proud and embarrassed by it 😄

13/10/2024

Let's see if this cassette I got from Bring & Byte works...

11/10/2024

Bring & Byte 2024 at The Centre for Computing History

I made a visit to the Cambridge Centre for Computing History for their Bring & Byte event, an absolute delight for retro lovers. In this short video I give a...

11/10/2024

The Festival of Portable Computing... at The Centre for Computing History

I spent a pleasant Sunday wandering around the Festival of Portable Computing at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, meeting the exhibitors and havin...

11/10/2024

Teletext Elite!

In this episode of Bits and Bytes I take a look at the wonderfully eccentric Teletext edition of Elite! This wacky version was made by Mark Moxon using the T...

11/10/2024

Voxel 3D space demo... on a BBC Micro!

In this episode of Bits and Bytes, I take a look at Chris Bradburne's incredible Voxel Landspace demo, which does an impressive job of rendering a 3-dimensio...

11/10/2024

Taking a look at my Acorn Electron...

In this video I take a mini tour of my new Acorn Electron, recently gifted (to myself) over Christmas, along with the various peripherals and accessories I'v...