An Acorn Electron with Plus 1 expansion unit attached

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

There were around 1, 400 games released for the Acorn Electron, several thousand extra public domain titles were released on disc through Public Domain libraries.

See also the list of Acorn Electron games for a fairly comprehensive list of games published for the machine and: Category: BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games for a list of games with information on Wikipedia.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

* Electron User, the most popular Acorn Electron focused magazine

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* Gauntlet ( Micro Power video game ), 1984 Defender clone for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Amstrad CPC computers

The pig farming simulation Acorn is the only complete, if modest, game

* Acorn flour is made from ground acorns and can be used as a substitute for wheat flour.

BBC BASIC is a programming language, developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home / personal computer, mainly by Sophie Wilson.

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

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ARM ( formerly Advanced RISC Machine and Acorn RISC Machine ) is a reduced instruction set computer ( RISC ) instruction set architecture ( ISA ) developed by British company ARM Holdings.

The name is commonly used to describe any of Acorn's contemporary designs based on the same architecture, even where Acorn did not include Archimedes in the official name.

" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.

" Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes the form of a wake.

' Evoked here is the unique mixture of intense emotion, wit and radical politics that identified Acorn as a man and a poet.

* Acorn Buttress, a small buttress just below Twin Buttress, which is a popular base-camp location.

Louisa is also home to the Acorn Community, a rural, cooperative, income sharing community on about 80 acres, founded in 1993 by one of the founding member of Twin Oaks, Kat Kincade.

The reunion special is also available on DVD now, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

Four Oaks is the home of the Acorn Festival.

The DVD of this series is available now, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

The Acorn Theatre is a 200 seat performing arts venue in Worksop town centre, providing a full programme of professional and amateur live theatre and folk music.

Most famously the sapsuckers ( genus Sphyrapicus ) feed in this fashion, but the technique is not restricted to these and others such as the Acorn Woodpecker and White-headed Woodpecker also feed in this way.

Acorn Computers CEO, Stan Boland said " There is not a big enough market for the PC ( Risc PC 2 ), which is largely for home use and games.

For example, in the Avon Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, there is a period of each year when Banksia prionotes ( Acorn Banksia ) is the sole source of nectar for honeyeaters, which play an important role in pollination of numerous plant species.

Elite is a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers.

A 256-colour version of the game was released for the Acorn RISC OS platform on floppy disk, with a CD version including voice acting released later.

This and the Acorn Archimedes port are the only two incarnations of the original Amiga version to have this.

For example, the Acorn Code was a version specific to users of Acorn's RISC OS computers.

Later London credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific ( at the Royal National Theatre ), The Woman In White, Othello and Acorn Antiques The Musical ( 2005 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rock ' n ' Roll and Porgy and Bess in 2006 at the Savoy Theatre ( an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives, unlike Nunn's first production of the opera ).

In addition to these official releases, there have been numerous unofficial clones including Froggy for the ZX Spectrum released by DJL Software in 1984, Acornsoft's Hopper ( 1983 ) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, A & F Software's Frogger ( 1983 ) for BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum, Solo Software's Frogger for the Sharp MZ-700 in the UK in 1984, and a version for the NewBrain under the name Leap Frog.

Acorn systems came with a version of the BBC BASIC programming language as standard but Acornsoft also produced a wide range of other languages that could be loaded in by cassette or disc or in some cases, supplied in ROM form.

Sally was about to marry Patch ( the evil version of Antoine from the same parallel universe, masquerading as his doppelganger ), whose plan was to kill King Acorn upon the end of the ceremony, effectively making him king of the Acorn Kingdom.

* Acorn Computers release the Acorn Electron, a cut down version of their BBC Micro to compete in the under £ 200 home computer market.

Magazines Edge and Retro Gamer commented that most official and unofficial ports failed to accurately emulate the arcade's gameplay, citing Planetoid, an unofficial version for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron published by Acornsoft, as the only home version to succeed.

The Acorn Electron version was created from a direct port from the BBC Micro version.

This version of the game would have featured Sally Acorn and the other Freedom Fighters from the Saturday morning animated series, Sonic the Hedgehog.

The beginning of the game with Mike Finn still inside the Perseus ( Acorn Electron version )

Mallard BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for CP / M written by Locomotive Software and supplied with the Amstrad PCW range of small business computers, the ZX Spectrum + 3 version of CP / M Plus, and the Acorn BBC Micro Z80 second Processor.

The Acorn version was designed simply to run the Compact Software small business accounting products Acorn was including to target its Z80 second processor at small businesses.

Screenshot of Syndicate mission gameplay ( Acorn Archimedes version )

Acorn Electron screenshot of Thrust-due to technical limitations specific to the Electron, this version ran in two colour mode

The Amiga version was ported to DOS, Atari ST, SAM Coupé, Apple Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes either as data disk or standalone game.