The BBC and Master Computer Public Domain Library
Supporting the BBC B, B+, Atom, Electron, Master 128 and Master Compact
Born in 1990 and on the internet from 05/03/1997, 8BS is for 8 bit Acorn computer enthusiasts and has over 4000 disc images of free software. Is for PC users with BBC emulators. Produced 67 free disc based magazines and has downloads of software, pictures, manuals and stuff I have forgotten about totalling more than a shocking 65.4 gig and rising at an alarming rate.
The Latest News
Or read it from 1997 to now.
05/08/2026 Work on Jsbeeb now complete with most of the 8BS disc images available. Discs added to the MUS section. MUS152b to MUS166b contain sorted and recompiled files from earlier entries all on side 2. Side 0 contains the required system files to get a Master 128 with Music 5000 attached up and running. Info on the Jsbeeb page here
04/08/2026 JSBeeb up and running with the majority of the 8BS catalogue there ready for use in your browser.
02/08/2026 JSBeeb added to 8BS here. An online BBC emulator. Available from the main menu under Emulation>Online Emulation (surprisingly?). It is a work in progress with suitable discs being prepared. Currently, there is just a bunch from the newer end of the TBI section there, not all of them will run properly, please bear with me. Also, I think to run properly on Android, it needs a hardware keyboard, it works fine with my Bluetooth keyboard for instance. I could not get any virtual keyboard to work with it.
01/08/2026 Two new discs added to the TBI section. TBI-234-01 and TBI-234-02. AI generated text adventures. A new page added to the website documenting this at Various Articles>AI Generated Programs.
27/07/2026 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending scanned paper versions of the Elbug magazines, Volume 3-2 to 3-8. Available here
26/07/2026 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the last few Elbug discs, now added to the Elbug section. ELB volume 3 numbers 3 to 8, six discs. I have also renamed and altered the ADFS version of volume 2, removing 2 directories that contained numbers 1 and 2 of voume 3. Then creating a new ADFS version of volume 3.
13/07/2026 The Electron User Disc EUD section has had a major change. If you like to keep a copy of the 8BS site, I suggest you delete your EUD section and download it again as many of the filenames have been changed. The number of entries for this section have been cut down by about 2 thirds due to amalgamating different versions of the same thing into single zip files. I have Used Dave Edwards' numbering system to keep things in order as over the years, the collections have been named differently. Sometimes by the month of production. Sometimes by the volume and issue number which went horribly awry in January 1988, causing many a headache over the years. I think we have got on top of that one. It's been a long day at 8BS HQ. I hope there are not too many cockups in the EUD section, please let me know if you find any.
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