“but I did have the BBC Advanced User Guide”
Heh, I still have mine.
https://www.dataserve-retro.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p92.html
Yeah, assembler killed my early interest too. If only the Beeb’d shipped with Logo instead of BASIC. That I (now) get.
Though for epic covers this one still can’t be beat:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zx81-Basic-Programming-Sinclair/dp/...
Elite… ahh, memories of misspent 6th-year biology. (Beebs were standard fixtures in 80s UK schools.)
Voltmace joysticks FTW, amirite