Acorn Electron fans — I’ve added more ROMs to the collection bringing the total to 590. You can try them out in your browser with Electroniq by 0xC0DE here: nyimski.net/Electron_Roms.… Or, if you’d like to use them on real hardware, grab the full pack here:

I now have 3 separate 64bit libretro (RetroArch) core versions of Electroniq, running all at once on Windows 11. Windows core on the left, Linux core (via WSL2) topright, and Android core (via BlueStacks) bottomright. Looking at touchscreen input on Android version now...

I think I'm going to have some fun with this! Many thanks to rax

With the libretro core version of Electroniq, I can finally easily load and play Acorn Electron games on my Android device (via RetroArch) using the touchscreen! 😎

Pong Wars simulation for Acorn Electron and BBC Micro/Master. This fun little project was inspired by pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl. After coding a prototype in BBC BASIC, I created this 6502 asm version. I hope you enjoy! github.com/0xC0DE6502/pon…

I want my Acorn Electron emulator Electroniq to be able to import/export BBC BASIC programs in regular text format. However, tokenising BBC BASIC is not exactly a trivial task. So I am experimenting with this alternative method: turbo paste! This is working remarkably well 😎

Electroniq now supports importing text files (e.g. BBC BASIC programs) via "turbo pasting". It also supports exporting BBC BASIC programs to text files, for easy editing in your favourite editor. Try it at 0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/

I got sidetracked by custom tape loaders on the Acorn Electron and created a few of my own. Here's one that loads a continuous data stream to the screen (MODE 0), scanline by scanline. Beware, this is the perfect world of emulators and must really be tested on actual hardware!

And here's a Speccy-inspired custom tape loader for the Acorn Electron (MODE 1, one continuous data stream)

Being curious how game devs made custom tape loaders back in the day, I disassembled the tape loader of Way of the Exploding Fist (Acorn Electron). It loads "encrypted" continuous streams, which are still made up of blocks so you can rewind & retry github.com/0xC0DE6502/cus…

My custom tape loaders now confirmed working on a real Electron, including some lost bytes due to crippled MODE 1 🤣 I had trouble connecting my laptop (playuef, audacity) to my Electron, until I bought a cheap usb audio device aka "external soundcard". Loading/saving works😎

While coding Electroniq (Acorn Electron emulator) I got into the habit of writing down ideas, research, tech info, etc in a simple notes.txt file. This is now a 4300+ lines doc and I'm very happy with it, considering my degrading memory and sparse comments in my source code 🤣

Revisiting one of my older demos for the Acorn Electron. Creatively called "MODE2 Demo". Fixed an issue that made it glitch every so often. Runs flawlessly in Electroniq (and on a real Electron of course). If someone says the Elk is slow and lacking colours, show them this 😎

I'm sure this has been done before, but I'm having fun disassembling the protection in Repton for the Acorn Electron. I may publish a commented disassembly later. There is fake code, many undocumented NOPs, hidden BRK handler, decryption, hidden data in tape header blocks, & more

Disassembly (+ comments) of tape protection of Repton (Acorn Electron). Interesting protection measures. Hidden data in tape block headers is my favourite trick github.com/0xC0DE6502/tap…