You can purchase separate a USB stick of the entire library (or the older, individual DVDs of parts of the archives) by reading through the information below and making payment with Paypal. The Acorn Electron World USB is sent out in a DVD-size box. (The Acorn Electron World DVD is now supplied with a professional inlay and stickered disc, whilst the others are supplied labelled and in clear sellophane wrapping.) All products are sent out in padded envelopes.

I'm proud to present the first new Acorn Electron book for over thirty years. My book, written by me, featuring a complete guide to collecting for the Acorn Electron, reviews of a hundred Acorn Electron games and illustrated with cover art, screenshots and the machines themselves in the hands of our professional models. At 188 pages, and restricted to a small print run, this book is a limited run, printed on glossy high quality paper and costs £29.95 plus £3.70 postage and packing. A hardback version of the book can also be ordered via Blurb.

The Acorn Electron World DVD is the mirror of the whole of the web-site, but with all of the content, and costs £13.95 all-inclusive of postage and handling fees to anywhere in the world.

The Acorn Electron World USB is a 64Gb USB stick featuring an archive approximately ten times the size of the Acorn Electron World DVD. It includes everything you could ever want or need to know about the Acorn Electron, and saves you the hassle of collecting DVDs to get it. It costs £29.95 all-inclusive of postage and handling fees to anywhere in the world.

 
On the Acorn Electron World USB, you get all of the following products, catalogued in full towards the bottom of this page:

1. The complete Acorn Electron World archives (i.e. every professional, public domain, companions, adult and unreleased release... plus thousands of additional cover scans, media scans, screenshots and information)
2. The complete Acorn Electron magazine archives (i.e. the scans of A&B Computing, Acorn User, Computer Gamer, Electron User, Home Computing Weekly, Personal Computer News and Personal Computer Games with thousands of articles converted to html for very easy access. Note that the scans of Input, The Micro User and Acorn Computing are not included.)
3. The complete Acorn Electron book archives (i.e. every book, manual and user guide ever released)

This product is the most thoroughly curated, and updated thing that we offer. Everything is intuitively linked - i.e. games are linked to screenshots, instructions, reviews and solutions - so that any Electron item is only ever a few mouse clicks away.

You don't have to be a genius to see the amount of work that has gone into Acorn Electron World - everything ever produced for the Acorn Electron has been collected, scanned and coupled up with screenshots. The DVD however goes way beyond this - if you need information on anything Electron-related, it's on there. The whole life story of a single machine from cradle to cyberspace. And, whilst £13.95 may seem a lot for information that we used to host for free, you are sparing yourself a whole week of pointing and clicking to download it all, not to mention getting hold of everything for the same price as a single game back in the day!

Acorn Electron World is also somewhat different to the other 8bit websites out there in that it contains almost 100% all-exclusive content. We have taken the time not just to preserve each and every program (or magazine, book or whatever), but also to make it significantly better. So we have handdrawn hundreds of original loading screens based on the game's cover art; laboriously sat over steaming keyboards copying technical manuals; played though all of our adventure solutions, and checked and re-checked whether everything works on the original Electron hardware. (For a very small selection of discs from our library, please do look at the games featured section.) But Acorn Electron World, like the numerous 8-bit sites that preceded it, may one day disappear. So a number of DVDs 'out there' makes it much more likely that the information can be preserved for future generations.

2008 was the year that Dave E, Acorn Electron World's webmaster, finally finished everything he could and reluctantly moved the site from being free to being DVD only. Yes, there are still some small omissions from the DVD - no one can crack the customised tape loader on Superman - The Man Of Steel, for example - but your £13.95 buys everything from the original user guides to the cover art to Spy Snatcher (the last ever professional release). We are sure you'll agree in all respects that it's the bargain of the year!

ACORN ELECTRON WORLD DVD Inclusive of domestic/international postage

£13.95

 
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In addition to the best-selling Acorn Electron DVD with all of the above content, we have worked tirelessly to produce scanned libraries of all the popular Acorn magazines (A&B Computing, Acorn Computing, Acorn User, Let's Compute!, Personal Computer News and The Micro User), plus the entire library of books. Well over one million separate scans over a seventeen month period, these magazines cover the period 1982-1991 and are saved in high-resolution 900 x 1280 (or higher) .jpg format, with every page of every issue perfectly preserved - and all the individual companion cassettes and discs included.

To buy one or more of them, please scroll down and click the appropriate link below.

Note that The Micro User DVD collection is available in both a HQ and a 'lite' version. The HQ version features scans in 1400 x 2000 .jpg format. Whilst the content is the same, the quality of scan is significantly better in the HQ version; however, the resulting size of images require more physical DVDs to be supplied, hence the cost is fractionally higher.

In relation to all of our DVDs, please note that we supply our products on the most popular "DVD-R" type discs. If you are unlucky enough to have an older "DVD+R" type drive, then you will need to e-mail us (on dave_a_e@hotmail.com) after placing your order and instruct us that you require your DVDs on "DVD+R" discs. (Fortunately, most newer "DVD+R" drives do recognise "DVD-R" discs!)

For the purposes of distance selling, please note the following:

1. Orders placed via Paypal for any of the above products will be fulfilled within a minimum of two (2) days and a maximum of thirty (30) days.
2. A contract between you, as the buyer, and I, as the seller, comes into existence when your order is placed.
3. The price you see listed above applies irrespective of your geographical location. No additional charges are made for postage and packing.
4. I am located at 42 Canterbury Road, Redcar TS10 3QF, United Kingdom.
5. You have the right to cancel your order for any reason within seven working days of receipt of your product(s). If you wish to cancel your order before your product(s) are despatched, then please use my e-mail address to notify me. If you wish to cancel your order after your product(s) are despatched, you should return your product(s) with all original packaging to the above address. In either case, you can then use Paypal to reclaim your money in full.
6. If product(s) are lost in transit, either replacement product(s) or a full refund are offered.

Don't forget that, if you are looking for original Acorn Electron games on cassette, there are always loads available on our marketplace Everygamegoing, where you can also see current market values of Acorn Electron software!