Welcome to BBC Alive!

The BBC Micro is alive and well - on the web! There are a number of sites (including this one) devoted to this little machine which has on board sound and graphics plus a built in version of the BASIC language. Most of the software that was released for it is now in the public domain and there are emulators around so that you can run the software on other platforms. Here we concentrate on some "technical" assistance together with background information and some software.

Since the BBC micro stopped being manufactured hardware has continued to be developed and software has continued to be written - although not in vast quantities. The beeb (as it is affectionately known) is a versatile machine and has been put to many uses by scientists, schools and in the home. It was and still is a durable machine giving many years of life, being well designed and rugged - unlike some competitors from its heyday. One of its strengths was as a communications machine with quite a bit of comms software existing for it and indeed even today it can be used on the web!

You can discover some of the quality of the beeb by using one the emulators available. For a selection follow the links on the resources page. For a history of the company that produced the BBC microcomputer you don't have to go to Acorn's web page. Simply click here.

As the site develops watch what's here expand!

Site Index

History of Acorn	History
Resources	Resources
Contact me	Contact
Disk Error Codes	Codes
Technical Pages	Tech
Technical help: ROMS	Roms
Technical help: Disks and disk drives	Disks
Technical help: Printers and printing	Print
Technical help: Video system	Display
Technical help: Ports	Ports
Technical help: Miscellaneous queries	Misc