ACORN: A WORLD IN PIXELS - BBC Micro/Acorn Electron Book

Checking out this fantastic new book from Idesine on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro - Acorn: A World In Pixels.

Buy yourself a copy here:

Thanks to Alex (Nintendo Arcade) for the heads-up:

[onaretrotip]

Loving this book! It's even better than I was expecting with all the interviews and 'Making of' articles, etc. Any Acorn fans in the comments?

Link to buy the book here:

[ThePCPitChannel]

I got a copy at Christmas. It really is top quality, and brought back a lot of memories. I’m luckily enough to own an Electron and BBC, buy this book made me realise how many games I’m missing. Nice review

[dennyhaynes]

You get a like just for the Blake's 7 mention 👍. Cracking book.

[chrisandrews]

Will definitely be getting this, so many memories. My Dad still had his BBC in the attic up until a few years ago. Sadly now in landfill.

[grantuk]

Looks a great book. So many memories there of 1980s of home and school computing

[ButtonBashers]

Nice Pete, this is right up your street!.. It looks like a very well put together book. Top stuff mate

[davidretrogamesplayedbadly]

Huge fan of the BBC, great looking book.

[TheArcadeArchive]

That book was always going to be in good hands for a review.
Fantastic review as always mate 😎👍

[thedddemon]

Thanks for sharing the contents, looks very nice!

[Pupppeteer]

This is really cool it's always interesting to see there is a whole history when you don't know about it.

[DadLadsGaming]

That looks excellent Pete.

I remember playing a load of those games.... Only at school as none of my friends had one 🤷🏼‍♂️

[CuriosityRocks]

I was an Acorn kid, looks like a cool book

[steve]

Fairplay that looks a quality book Pete buddy 👌

[gingerhippygaming]

Love the BBC will have to get this book will be nice to find games I have never played and load them up on my elk2iec

[SEGAZombie]

Blake’s 7 what a sci-fi series 💙
I’m not that familiar with BBC micro we had them at school for grannies garden that’s my only memory tbh, but the book looks amazing mate

[GimblyGFR]

The book seems to be very interesting. I have no experience with Acorn computers since none of them was ever sold in my country, but I had a similar story to yours with my beloved Speccy. The first time I ever played a video game was Ghostbusters by Activision in a wonderful, brand new ZX Spectrum 48K. I was around six years old, and that moment changed my life forever. To this day, I play Speccy games quite regularly. Will this book get a digital edition?

[madkarl]

It look like a nice object, it's too bad I didn't grew up on BBC Micro. I wonder if an equivalent exists, or if not should be made, for the Amstrad Amiga Atari. Would be a nice book for sure ^^

[Pupppeteer]

This book looks miles cooler than a certain nes guidebook lol

[louiseogden]

We had a BBC Micro from when I was very small. I inherited it when my dad got his first Amstrad PC, and many an hour was chewed up by it :).

Is there anything about the platform game Magic Mushrooms in it (don't giggle, it was a real game)? That was my favourite game -- it had a level editor which kept me amused after I beat the original.

[mattmyers]

How come you didn't back the risc os over on Kickstarter if you love Acorn so much? If you did, good for you, if you didn't, back it and get your friends, and thier friends to back it.