Acorn Electron (electron)

for Batocera and Retrobat

The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer introduced by Acorn Computers Ltd on 25 August 1983. It had 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC v2 along with its operating system.

The Electron was able to save and load programs onto audio cassette via a supplied converter cable that connected it to any standard tape recorder that had the correct sockets. It was capable of basic graphics, and could display onto either a television set, a colour (RGB) monitor or a monochrome monitor.

For a short period, the Electron was reportedly the best selling micro in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 200,000 to 250,000 machines sold over its entire commercial lifespan.

The package includes:

152 games (~550 MB)

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NOTE: 
This system is already included in our base builds for either RetroBat, Batocera or both.
It is being made available to support future "Barebones" editions of the builds that come without any ROMs.
If you already use one of the following, then you DO NOT need to download this.

-RetroBat v6 Base Edition 300 GB [RGS]
-Batocera v40 Base Edition 500 GB [RGS]

If "Barebones" editions of our builds are now available, please download as needed.

How to install:
Drag and drop the "electron" folder to the "roms" directory