{"id":573,"date":"2021-01-20T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-01-24T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T14:39:04","slug":"grid-runner-bbc-micro-juvenilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/grid-runner-bbc-micro-juvenilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Grid Runner &#8211; BBC Micro  Juvenilia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> My first computer was a BBC Micro Model A (early version with the linear PSU  and bodge wires on the circuit board). Later we upgraded it to a Model  B. I loved it, and even took it on holiday a few times (!) My parents  must have been very understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was amazed today to discover that the BBC Micro community has saved two very obscure games I wrote in my teens and you can now play them in the browser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> <strong>Grid Runner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=636\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunner.png 676w, http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunner-518x420.png 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=636\">http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=636<\/a><br> <br> <strong>Grid Runner II<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\" http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=765\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunnerIITheBlobsRevenge.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunnerIITheBlobsRevenge.png 676w, http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GridRunnerIITheBlobsRevenge-518x420.png 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=765\">http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=765<\/a><br> <br> IIRC selling Grid Runner was the first money I ever earned. The BBC Micro magazine Beebug (which was based close to where we live) included it in a demo disk (image via a kind user of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stardot.org.uk\/forums\/\">StarDot forums<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"685\" height=\"617\" src=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid_runner-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid_runner-ad.jpg 685w, http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid_runner-ad-466x420.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you are wondering, I am not colour-blind. The clashing colours were inspired by the BBC classic game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcmicro.co.uk\/game.php?id=2447\">Frak<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JS Beeb is fantastic BTW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first computer was a BBC Micro Model A (early version with the linear PSU and bodge wires on the circuit board). Later we upgraded it to a Model B. I loved it, and even took it on holiday a few times (!) My parents must have been very understanding. I was amazed today to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}