Acorn A World in Pixels - Book

Acorn A World in Pixels - Book
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Acorn A World in Pixels - Book £25.00

 

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Celebrate the visual games history of the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron with this case bound book.

Now spread over 600 pages!

  • Over 30 new interviews with programmers and publishers (see below for the full list), to add to the 70 interviews in the first edition;
  • A full 18-page talking-heads retrospect on Acorn Computers with founders Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber and Chris Turner;
  • A fascinating 8-page “Making of” of Ultimate’s famous BBC games including Knight Lore, Alien 8 and Sabre Wulf, from the heart of their production. This adds to the Making Ofs on Elite, Exile and Repton;
  • Superior Software’s Richard Hanson talks directly to a number of his collaborators spread across 14 pages including Superior co-founder John Dyson;

 

Extended new features including:

  • the full story behind the BBC's Micro Men Acorn/Sinclair documentary with producer Andrea Cornwell and other contributors;
  • Citadel and Elite source code recovery and analysis;
  • How the modern day BBC emulators are created;
  • Level 9’s classic adventures;
  • More new stunning artwork from Micro Power, Alligata and Superior Software, some never seen before;
  • Over 25 additional games are featured, adding to the 150 games in the first edition;
  • And much more...

Normally £34.99

Special Offer : £24.99

 

Remember - All proceeds go to support our Computing Museum!

 
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