Moonbase Beta - Title Screen
Back in the great old days of 8 bit computing, I fiddled, and played endlessly with a BBC Micro B. In 1990 I started work on a game, which turned into Moonbase Beta. It was finished finally in 1992, when unfortunately the days of the BBC games market was coming to an end.
I sent it off to Superior Software, but it never saw the light of day, until many years later. Last I heard was someone from Pro-action offering me 10 pounds for it, and that was that - nothing more ever heard from them. (Nor did I get 10 pounds!) Think whoever the bloke was, was going to us it for a Play it again Sam compilation.
A lot happens in the meantime, until I was searching around the web on all the BBC sites in 1999, for old and unreleased games. I thought the chances of finding my own game was slim to nothing….How wrong I was.
I found an image of the game on the BBC Lives site, much to my astonishment and joy. There it shall stay, as it quite rightly now belongs in the public domain for all to play and enjoy.
So I decided, once I can find some spare time, I was going to find all the documents, and hopefully some of the source files, and attempt to preserve the files used to build the game. See how I got in in the Diary.
