Atari ST - BBC Micro/Acorn Electron

Games

Hiss

Hiss puts an educational spin on the age-old classic of Snake.

Hiss takes the classic snake game and turns it into an educational game for the young, which teaches children how to spell. Quite simply, instead of having the snake collect fruit or other tasty objects, you have to guide it around the playing field collecting letters of a word in the correct order.

Hiss was the very first game to be published by Jason Brasier, albeit a type-in listing in Electron User.

Number Snake

Number Snake has you eating numbers as they count down. The higher the number, the more points you earn, but the longer your snake gets. The ago-old classic that never seems to tire.

Othello

Othello is the classic board game that takes minutes to learn, but years to master. Each player takes it in turn to place their counters on to the board so that it captures their opponent's and turns them into their own.

Pontoon

Pontoon is a game very similar to Black Jack, where a player has to try and beat the banker with a high a score as possible from no more than five cards and by scoring no more than 21.

Race

Race is a simple flat out racer for one player against the computer that features 3 tracks of varying difficulty.

Space Duel

This is a simple one on one blast with a couple of differences. Space Duel not only pits two pilots against one another in a duel in space, but it also takes place in an asteroid belt!

Space Wars

Another Space Invaders clone, Space Wars adds a couple of minor differences into the mix by allowing the aliens to continually drop homing bombs on the player, plus a rather deadly laser from the mothership!

Applications

Sprite Editor

The Sprite Editor is by all means and purposes very similar to the UDG Designer. The only difference here is that this program allows you to design 8x8 sprites that can have up to four colours in them.

UDG Generator

The UDG Generator is a simple tool used to design the 8x8 monochrome graphics used on the BBC Micro and other computers of the era.