An interestingly different cover for some BBC Micro educational software!
Micro Computer Retro
I inherited some BBC Micro “swag” over the weekend and found some real gems including a complete boxed Elite. The most amazing thing was the hand drawn maps. Obviously a text adventure fan! They look like the maps I used to draw – except mine were in boxes and numbered 
Feb 232011
191 mins / Direct Download Link —>http://slayradio.org/discuss.php?what=show&ID=1045
“Ah, Valentines Day, that special time of the year where thanks to the wonder of the commercial card shops we twingo twixt fawn h’overpriced hollihocks and chocolates… ”
Join Anna LIVE from Kilburn, London for 3.2 hours of love based C64 music and owl based chat! Please find the latest “Anorak” – a weekly retro micro computer music radio show on SLAY Radio (the home of Commodore 64* remixes).
This week along with a great selection of new releases from chaps including BeeZerk, Richard Braithwaite, and Hazel, we have your music requests from Twitter and IRC, including some excellent original SID’s**
* Commodore 64 = a home computer from the 1980/90′s which contains a most impressive sound chip
** SID = Sound Interface Device (the aforementioned most impressive sound chip and also shorthand for a tune prepared on the aforementioned Commodore 64)
Came across this absolute gem yesterday! Published by McGraw-Hill 1985. Here is the blurb on the back…
“Talking computers? This book tells you how to make it happen for under $35 to your Apple II, IIplus and IIe; TSR-80 I, III and IV; Commodore 64 and Vic 20; Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81; and Timex/Sinclair 1000 Computers.
How To Make Your Computer Talk describes how complex speech waveforms are electronically modeled, enabling designers to put a digital model of the human vocal tract, a controller, and speech data on silicon. It provides you with complete, detailed instructions on interfacing speech hardware to the above mentioned machines.
Explore this exciting new dimension in computing and invent on your own, with these expert instructions. Examples of software that illustrate fundamental principles are included as an introduction to speech synthesis using your home computer.
Steven J. Veltri is Vice president of Research in Speech Technology and was formerly a product marketing engineer for the speech synthesis product lines of General Instruments Corporation.”
Feb 082011
186 mins / Direct Download Link —>http://slayradio.org/discuss.php?what=show&ID=1040
“It’s time to go… to SLAY Radio… slip out of your cardy… and let’s have a party… with the Anoooooooorak!”
Join Anna LIVE from Kilburn, London for 3.1 hours of jolly great music and owl based chat! Please find the latest “Anorak” – a weekly retro micro computer music radio show on SLAY Radio (the home of Commodore 64* remixes).
This week along with a great selection of new releases from chaps including PowerTrace, Aki Järvinen, Rune Bertil and Hazel, we have your music requests from Twitter and IRC, including some excellent original SID’s**
We also chat about Sinclair Research in Cambridge and the infamous “The Baron of Beef” pub where Mr Clive Sinclair and Mr Chris Curry had a “discussion” – and also the upcoming Retro Computer Museum weekend event in May!
* Commodore 64 = a home computer from the 1980/90′s which contains a most impressive sound chip
** SID = Sound Interface Device (the aforementioned most impressive sound chip and also shorthand for a tune prepared on the aforementioned Commodore 64)
