8bitkick
A tribute to the machines that inspired a generation — retro computing projects, collectible cards, and browser experiments.
Collectible cards
A tribute to the machines that brought computing home in the 1980s. The cards collate a small piece of computing history, letting you compare the stats of retro machines — and play a Top Trumps–style card game with them too.
Designs from the original Kickstarter deck were donated to the Centre for Computing History, who print and sell them to support their museum.
8-bit cloud
Send a tweet to @bbcmicrobot and it runs on a full emulation of the BBC Micro Model B — a computer standard in UK schools in the 1980s — replying with a video. Try it with:
10 MODE 2
20 COLOUR RND(7)
30 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
40 GOTO 20Congratulations — you've just written a program in BBC BASIC II (1982).
Cassette emulator
Load classic Acorn / BBC Micro cassette software straight from your browser. Built with the suggestions and expertise of the Acorn community at the Stardot forum.
Browser experiments
80s synthwave sequencer with WAV export.
3D audio frequency visualizer.
Real-time video to BBC Teletext converter.
Voice-controlled AI voxel scene builder (WebXR).
128×128 image to C byte-array convertor.
Convert BASIC to VDU byte strings for BBCMicroBot.
IMU data streaming over Bluetooth LE.
Get in touch
For questions about buying the cards, contact the Centre for Computing History store. For anything else, reach 8bitkick's creator on Twitter at @DominicPajak.