ABug Meetup - 29 - 30th June 2019

Fourth Cambridge meet up for the Acorn/BBC User Group.

Acorn was a British computer company based here in Cambridge. Their first computer went on sale in 1979. 40 years later, there’s still a very active community of Acorn enthusiasts - quite a few of which will be here at the Centre for Computing History across the weekend of June 29th-30th!

What will we be up to?

ABUG meetups are very active. There’s a whole range of projects that people collaborate on ranging from machine repair, developing new hardware, to writing new games.

Some past and present projects:

• Connecting modern processors (Raspberry Pi) to BBC Micros for super-fast performance
• Spectrum and Amstrad emulation on BBC Micros via Raspberry Pi
• Doom on a BBC Micro!
• Interfaces and software to connect SD cards to vintage Acorns
• New hardware to give the BBC Micro 4096 colours / 16 colours on screen
• Hardware add-on to give BBC Micro sound similar to Sega Mega Drive / Adlib soundcard
• Mega Games Cartridge for the Electron
• Many new games and game conversions for vintage Acorn computers that push the hardware beyond what was once thought possible!
• Archiving educational software from the 80s and 90s

At the meetup, you’ll see a wealth of vintage computers surrounded by modern laptops, oscilloscopes and other electronics equipment. We also have several BBC Micros set up for playing old and new games.

Come along, take a look, play some games and have a chat!