Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator)
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About Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator)
We grew up with the BBC Micro and we loved it, so we're bringing it back to the world!
See that Android phone in your hand? That's not Intel inside - it's powered by an ARM processor. The 'A' in 'ARM' stood for Acorn, a visionary British company that produced the seminal BBC Micro, and thirty years later - coming full circle - your phone hosts its venerable ancestor today.
Have fun reliving classic games from the 1980s, hosted by BBC Micro preservation website stairwaytohell.com - any questions, please email support@littlefluffytoys.mobi
Works at the full 50 frames per second on most recent powerful Android phones and tablets. This means anything significantly better than an HTC Desire or Nexus One (except, annoyingly, the brand new Galaxy Nexus, because it has the archaic GPU from 2010's Galaxy S pushing 240% of the pixels), or any Android 3.x or 4.x tablet. If you try to run this thing on something like a Wildfire or a ZTE Blade, please don't whinge to us that it runs like a dog - just go and buy a Galaxy S II already ;) It's an extremely faithful emulation, way moreso than other machines' emulators, but if you think you can make it quicker, get involved - it's open-source - code it!
Works with the specialised controls of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (but doesn't run at 50 frames per second).
This FREE and OPEN SOURCE application - the source code is published on Github at https://github.com/littlefluffytoys/Beebdroid - is based on B-Em for Linux by Tom Walker and licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0 as detailed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html - we encourage others to assist us in developing Beebdroid further. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details.
Beebdroid does not ship with any third party programs such as games - these are accessed via third party websites which have hosted such programs for years. Should any licence holders object to third party websites providing such programs, please contact the third party websites in question. We are furthermore also happy on a best-effort basis to block the visibility of specific programs within Beebdroid upon written request from verified product licence holders. We are also able to offer an in-app payment solution for your programs in such circumstances - please contact us for details.
The rights to the BBC Micro ROMs are believed by the emulator community to have effectively fallen into the public domain, having lain unclaimed for many years - Acorn itself is of course long bankrupt, and the documentation for the rights is rumoured to have gone down in the World Trade Center on 9/11. If you believe that you have a claim to the ROMs that has never been disclosed to the emulator community, or indeed has never been proven under law, remember that this is a labour of love, a free and open source preservation effort, and so please talk to us in the first instance, cheers!
See that Android phone in your hand? That's not Intel inside - it's powered by an ARM processor. The 'A' in 'ARM' stood for Acorn, a visionary British company that produced the seminal BBC Micro, and thirty years later - coming full circle - your phone hosts its venerable ancestor today.
Have fun reliving classic games from the 1980s, hosted by BBC Micro preservation website stairwaytohell.com - any questions, please email support@littlefluffytoys.mobi
Works at the full 50 frames per second on most recent powerful Android phones and tablets. This means anything significantly better than an HTC Desire or Nexus One (except, annoyingly, the brand new Galaxy Nexus, because it has the archaic GPU from 2010's Galaxy S pushing 240% of the pixels), or any Android 3.x or 4.x tablet. If you try to run this thing on something like a Wildfire or a ZTE Blade, please don't whinge to us that it runs like a dog - just go and buy a Galaxy S II already ;) It's an extremely faithful emulation, way moreso than other machines' emulators, but if you think you can make it quicker, get involved - it's open-source - code it!
Works with the specialised controls of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (but doesn't run at 50 frames per second).
This FREE and OPEN SOURCE application - the source code is published on Github at https://github.com/littlefluffytoys/Beebdroid - is based on B-Em for Linux by Tom Walker and licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0 as detailed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html - we encourage others to assist us in developing Beebdroid further. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details.
Beebdroid does not ship with any third party programs such as games - these are accessed via third party websites which have hosted such programs for years. Should any licence holders object to third party websites providing such programs, please contact the third party websites in question. We are furthermore also happy on a best-effort basis to block the visibility of specific programs within Beebdroid upon written request from verified product licence holders. We are also able to offer an in-app payment solution for your programs in such circumstances - please contact us for details.
The rights to the BBC Micro ROMs are believed by the emulator community to have effectively fallen into the public domain, having lain unclaimed for many years - Acorn itself is of course long bankrupt, and the documentation for the rights is rumoured to have gone down in the World Trade Center on 9/11. If you believe that you have a claim to the ROMs that has never been disclosed to the emulator community, or indeed has never been proven under law, remember that this is a labour of love, a free and open source preservation effort, and so please talk to us in the first instance, cheers!
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Sound now working on Android 5.0 and later. Added x86 support. Removed adverts. And we're working on some enhancements over the next few weeks - if you have any requests, email support@littlefluffytoys.mobi cheers!
Sound now working on Android 5.0 and later. Added x86 support. Removed adverts. And we're working on some enhancements over the next few weeks - if you have any requests, email support@littlefluffytoys.mobi cheers!
Version update Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator) was updated to version 2.0
Version update Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator) was updated to version 1.4
More downloads Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator) reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator) reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
What are users saying about Beebdroid (BBC Micro emulator)
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Looks like the app has been abandoned. Unlike the near identical Windows version, there is no way to create/load/save your own ssd/dsd discs or to import discs produced from other sources than the pre selected one's. I have lots of ssds from Acorn User, Disk User etc which I can't run. If it was closer to the pc version in functionality, I would give it 5 stars.
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Great emulator but it does look a bit abandoned. Was looking forward to loading own roms, fixed touch controls and game pad support. Will there be any more work on it? Thanks for everything so far.
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Any chance of working on the joystick control. It's not very good and inaccurate. Fix that and you've got 5 stars!
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Issues with the sound make it not nice to use. Fix it and I will give it 5 stars. Other than that OK.
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Works fine but I would like to be able to add my own games. Though actually it's not that important because all the famous BBC Micro games are present, Twin Kingdom Valley too.
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Have written a lond program and saved it but now I cant open the "no disk" and it says beepdroid has stopped
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Developer email just bounces back. Android TV update appears to be dead. So sad as using on screen d-pad is so hard
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Would be nice if was updated and we can load disk images, tapes files plus able to add roms. Good app if you want to play a few game that only in the list inside the app.
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Keyboard is too small and unresponsive when using a galaxy s8. This makes it very hard to use.
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Absolutely loving this, wish i still had my old Acorn Electron. Would love to see bumble and mr whiz available
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Great but can you fix the fire button on labyrinth. It doesn't work with the joystick
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You can use local disk images by tapping them (with Total Commander, at ;east).
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Really good! I had a bbc when I was a kid and this is a solid emulator with some corking games! Highly recommended!!
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Could you please add gunsmoke to the games.
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Absolutely Brilliant, thank you!
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Wicked, a flash from the past. :-)
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Poor emulator
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Thanks for the update and for removing the ads. I'd love to see more new games such as Exile and the ability to add your own games added. The ability to add game specific key mapping would make this perfect. Keep up the good work! It would be great to see the update to this. If you need help beta testings, give me a shout! UPDATE. Beebdroid isn't working with Android 6.01. Help can you please fix this?
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Even the *FX154 command crashes it into a mad loop like my original did. Only way out was a heavy Ctrl alt brk reset . ace!
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I loved my BBC model b. This brings back happy memories of playing chuckie egg for hours on end. Would give it 5 stars if you could save game progress. The app just crashes when you try to save
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Hi, could you please allow this emulator to be moved and installed on SD card, It was previously moved to SD but for some strange reason it now won't allow it and could you please make some more games available as roms and why do my games disappear after a while?
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BBC micro B was my first true home computer. What fun to be able to play chuckie egg and frak again. There are many text adventure games I'd like to ply again but no option to add files. Will this be a new feature ? Please please. I'd gladly pay for this feature to be developed. Many thanks
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Works fine but I would like to be able to add my own games. Though actually it's not that important because all the famous BBC Micro games are present, Twin Kingdom Valley too.
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Check out fiskur's derivative version, it has features missing in this rarely updated saga like GDrive support. LFT encouraged others to contribute to this project; and when they did (fiskur's update), the beebdroid author Reuben Scratton gave him a load of grief for releasing a new (superior) app despite BeebDroid itself being a derivative of B-Em! Scratton had planned to cynically monetize this emu and make you pay £9.99 for each game but Fiskur's update killed that idea by making all games free. LOL
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Being a BBC Micro whiz back in the day i was excited to try this, sure you can play games and write code,BUT for the millions of us that have real keyboard attached ou cannot type using the keyboard so given there are way better emus on PC, this is nothing more than a trp down memory lane on Android, Ihave reported this logng time ago and no response, it's worse on a phone too
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Back in the day (and that's well over 30 years ago) I was the proud owner of a BBC B - this emulator has taken me back to another world. Thanks guys.
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Sound works can see the keyboard but not the actual games. Please help i was realy looking forward to this
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I downloaded a disk but the only way i can play it one this emulator is to have a file name but what is the file name ?
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Feel this should be called speckydroid lol. Works great some great memories.
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Great authentic retro emulator
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Loved that game
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Works seamlessly
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Best emulator ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Couldn't believe it when I found this. Just one issue I have no sound on my galaxy s6 edge. Hope you can fix at some point. I loved my bbc. It was my first computer as a kid. Thank you
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Great thanks for fixing the sound issue! How about adding support for the BBC Master range of machines? The other thing that would be helpful for gaming is the ability to remap the keyboard so that I can use it with a Bluetooth controller.
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Thanks for the update and for removing the ads. I'd love to see more new games such as Exile and the ability to add your own games added. The ability to add game specific key mapping would make this perfect. Keep up the good work!
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Please fix save/load programs. It's not worth writing larger programs without those features. Brk key didn't work with my short BASIC program. I'm using a Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505). Sort those issues, and if no others come to light I'll upgrade my rating to 5*. I intend writing 6502 assembly programs.
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The assembler works well. When load and save are operational it'll be fun to import programs written 3 decades ago sitting on tape and floppy (should be fun to make a MATLAB reader for the cassettes that writes out files for "loading")
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Even the *FX154 command crashes it into a mad loop like my original did. Only way out was a heavy Ctrl alt brk reset . ace!
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Doesn't seem to be any way to paste code from the Android copy buffer into the emulator (to copy and paste programs for example). Or any working way to save programs once typed in. The games are cool, but for the moment this falls short of a usable emulator. Any chance of getting the 2 above features?