7 April
Thanks to Paul Downham ( of Boldfield Computing 1982-2006 ) for this rare copy of "The London Computer Fair" flyer. Boldfield computing were selling the Ace there for £35+VAT (£40.25)
For the Advert index see [ Document Tab >
Adverts]
4 April
Sanyo DM 2112 monitor was sold by Boldfield Computing for use with the Ace.
3 April
EME Sound box interface page added. The archive team wish to thank the Jupiter Ace collector who send us these few images of the EME soundbox.
If you have any other images of this Ace interface, both sides of the pcb, then please take the time to send the images so we can add them to this page.
2 April
Jupiter Cantab 4 page software price list, [
page 1] [
page 2]
[
page 3] [
page 4], listing the first Ace software titles and details of the RAM pack cost.
For the Advert index see [ Documnets Tab >
Adverts]
30 March
Syntax Highlighting for AceFORTH text files. If you like us use a text editor to devople AceFORTH words, and use
UltraEdit or
NotePad++ then this might be of interest to you.
29 March
FORTH web ring links added.
17 Feburary
from Radio & Electronics World 1984.
15 Feburary
Hardware information updated. Thanks to Paul Downham (Ex Boldfield Computing) who kindly sent the archive the instructions and a front trim of the keyboard body with the Jupiter Ace legend, very rare to find!
For the Hardware Index see [
Hardware Tab]
15 February
Hi-Res scans of the Boldfield Instructions for the Memotech Keyboard have been added to the manuals page.
For the Manuals Index see [ Documents Tab >
manuals]
14 February
Ace Forth source code for the Factorial software listing based on an article found in
Practical Computing September 1982 .Thanks to Ricardo for the Ace Forth source code.
14 February
Jupiter Ace version of the Factorial software based on an article found in
Practical Computing September 1982 . Downloads for the Ace version, Thanks to Ricardo for putting it together.
14 February
From an article found in Practical Computing September 1982.
24 January
A few dead links removed, and some new ones. A link to a new archive for the
Grundy NewBrain Computer has been added. This was also the machine that Boldfeild Computers sold before the Jupiter Ace back in 1982.
23 January
Site statistics updated for 2007's hits. If you are one of the 180,677 unique visitors to the project then thank you for looking us up !
18 January
User-define grahpics & Board Game from Practical Computing June 1983.
15 January
Software reviews from Personal Computer News 16 June 1983. Reviews of Gobbedegook, Hopper, Frogger, Othello, Greedy Gobbler, and Fish & Flutterer.
13 January
A letter from PCN 16 June 1983 by Ralph Lorenz (Ralph if you read this how about getting in touch!) about the missing INKEY codes from the manual
10 January
Sound Tool kit program for use with
AMI Project. This toolkit lets you experiment with the AY-8910 sound chip.
1 December
30 November
29 November
25 November
The last recovered file from
John Kennedy master tape. Unfortunately there is only a "flavour" of what this game might have been.
25 November
A track racing game from
John Kennedy. 'Steer your Formula 1 racing along the circuit, avoiding the other car and sides of the track'.
24 November
from
John Kennedy. 'Welcome Aboard the U.S.S. Jupiter - The object of your mission is to travel as far back into time as possible, and destroy the evil Spectrons who will otherwise wipe out the human race....' - just a great game! Good use of the Aces graphics, great game play.
23 November
A large maze game from
John Kennedy. The object of the game is to get as many points as possible by reaching the check points scattered around the huge maze. Great graphics and use of sound. Vary fast and great fun.
22 November
22 November
And yet another! From
John Kennedy. Get to the bombs before the fuse at the top of the screen disappears and the bomb explodes. Great graphics again and sound. This game supports the EME sound card. Great fun to play. Edwin will be looking at this game soon to make it work with our
AMI interface.
21 November
Another from
John Kennedy. 'A long time ago in a distant galaxy, the peace-loving race on the planet Blodgett was, for no apparent reason, attacked and almost completly wiped out by the Robo-henches, controlled by their master computer. The only remaining Blogettarian was Han Duo [ pun intended ] who set about the entire destruction of the Robo-Henches. Unfortunately, Hans ship was discovered by the Robots, and the Master computer took control from one of the many rooms. Its up to you... ' - Great graphics, sound, and game play again from John.
20 November
A large update to the magazine software listing with Tap, Wav, Ace files added for the following magazine listings;
Words,
Sine wave generator,
Security,
Music,
Monitor,
Meteor,
Lunar Lander,
Loader,
Vocab Select (listv),
Sallors' Hornpipe,
Graphic exercises,
Guessing Game,
Foating Point Dictionary,
Chase,
Case,
Breakout,
Alien Swarm,
Ace Graphics,
Ace Avoider,
Faster Ace.
Thanks to
Ricardo for typing up and sorting out the WAV, TAP and ACE files.
19 November
The example AceFORTH codes from the Jupiter Ace's Users Manual. Thanks to
Ricardo for typing this up and sorting out the WAV, TAP and ACE files.
18 November
from
John Kennedy. With some 3D effect tanks attacking. You are the only remaining tank in your unit. Although very badly damaged it is up to you to stop the enemy from destroying the atomic power station. Great graphics and use of the Aces sound. Very playable and Fast!
17 November
A Jupiter Ace version of Meteors, another from
John Kennedy. Very fast to play.
15 November
Another from
John Kennedy. The classic Frogger game. This game has a nice little intro as the Frogs scroll up the screen the make the game title name, as well as great graphics and game speed.
14 November
Another great Ace program from
John Kennedy. The classic Space Invaders game, the best Ace invaders game we have ever seen!
11 November
Yes! a Jupiter Ace version of the classic arcade game Moon Buggy. Programmed By
John Kennedy. We are please to inform you that John has sent us him master Jupiter Ace tape to be archived. Most of this superb software has never been seen before, we have another 10 titles to come!
8 November
from
Voyager software sent by the author. Another Voyager Tape saved! This one has three games on it Brick Catcher, Street Race and Asteroids.
