Colin Hoad's YouTube Channel

03/08/2025

Something from my "side channel" for a change! 😁

Got an old DOS laptop with a defunct internal floppy drive? It happens to the best of us. But there is a solution... the Backpack parallel port floppy drive,...

09/07/2025

An announcement! 😄

Less than a month since the Econet LAN Party, I've returned to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park... and this time with a very special person...

11/06/2025

https://youtu.be/0qQtm-lGXM4

Last weekend I made a trip to the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) to attend two back-to-back days of Econet glory! This was my first ever Econet LAN par...

27/05/2025

My friend Steve has had his original YouTube channel cruelly deleted. He's started a new one, though, so do give him a subscribe - he makes great retro gaming videos and is a lovely chap 😀

https://youtube.com/?si=QsCIXVUT_hGw4Ua8

13/05/2025

https://youtu.be/LAZnyBm-M8c

Econet In A Nutshell - Part 1First in a two-part video series exploring the wonderful world of Econet, Acorn's very own network.In this video I'll be taking ...

10/05/2025

Thank you, everyone! Today I hit 2,000 subscribers, which for this channel of mine that I started just for a bit of fun is very flattering ☺️

07/04/2025

Short video from ABUG South this past weekend:

A short report on my time at ABUG South, April 2025! As usual with these videos, it's only a small taster of what I saw, the people I spoke to and the things...

23/03/2025

Every Defender Game... Ranked!

Ever wondered which is the best version of Defender for the BBC Micro? In this video I look at all 8 clones, ports and variants released for the Beeb and ran...

20/01/2025

How did Peter Scott manage to squeeze Sim City into just 20k of memory on a Beeb?

In 1990, Superior Software released Sim City, an official BBC Micro port of the original Maxis game. But unlike that original, which ran on an Amiga with 512...

14/01/2025

A short video on last weekend's ABug North!

A short report on my time at ABug North, January 2025! My second in-person ABug, but the first one up north! It was, as always, an absolute pleasure, and alt...

08/01/2025

I had a great time being interviewed last night and the wonderful ABug team have already got it online! You can watch it here:

Recorded 7 January 2025.Interview with by Paul Bussey.For information about how to participate in upcoming 'Virtual' ABug events - visit the Event...

07/01/2025

This is on... tonight! If you'd like to join, head over to Stardot and request the Zoom details
https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=444551