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Feature table
I've updated the feature table (below) to indicate the current status of the various versions of BBC BASIC that I am responsible for. This may also be helpful in comparing the capabilities of BBC BAS…2 -
Coronation demo
This is John Ireland's Epic March which was played at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 (transcribed for computer by Gerald Pye on 31st October 1981). It is accompanied by a 3D model of St…1 -
Re: Using I2C in BBC Basic on Pi Pico
Thanks Ed. I'll give this a try. For now I have written a bit-bang routine and that works also good enough for my purpose.1 -
Re: Feature request (?): automatic start of a program on Pi Pico with BBC Basic
Thanks Ed. That works great! That feature was already there :)1 -
Re: LOCAL with no parameters
Having thought about this some more, and chatting with some of the folks at last weekends ABUG meet, the correct path for Matrix Brandy is to follow Acorn's behaviour. While arguably LOCAL all by its…1 -
Re: Opening a TTY device in MacOS
That would probably fix it, but it was a silly mistake. I was testing on my M1 (Apple Silicon) Mac, because it's so much faster than the x86 machine, but I'd forgotten to update BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0…1 -
Re: Opening a TTY device in MacOS
Might something similar to this magic from my Mac build help, which as I understand it tells the loader to pull libraries in from a different place: install_name_tool -change @rpath/SDL2.framework/Ve…1 -
Re: Console Mode edition not working in Windows?
Panic over, it turns out that my correspondent was mistaken. Despite him seemingly having done tests which 'proved' that it was not outputting to STDOUT, he now says he made a mistake and in fact it …1 -
Re: Immediate Mode
Structures aren't complicated. Creating them is more work than accessing them, since the latter largely shares the same code used to lookup ordinary variables (i.e. scanning a linked list). The only …1 -
Console Mode editions updated to version 0.42
I have updated my Console Mode editions of BBC BASIC to version 0.42. The changes in this version are: * Added new command-line options: -help, -load and -quit: * -help lists a brief description of t…1
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