Commercial BBC Micro games written in BASIC?

Richard_Russell

Were any commercial BBC Micro games (e.g. from Acornsoft or another distributor) written entirely, or mostly, in BASIC?

Soruk

Chalksoft's "Pirate" was entirely in BASIC. It's more likely the educational games that would be in BASIC as the speed of machine code would be unnecessary.

Richard_Russell

Soruk wrote: »

Chalksoft's "Pirate" was entirely in BASIC.

Thanks, that's not one I remember.

It's more likely the educational games that would be in BASIC as the speed of machine code would be unnecessary.

Could be. I suppose I'd hoped that games dominated by drawing graphics (rather than computation and/or logic) ought not to suffer a great deal from being written in BASIC since they would already be using highly-optimised plotting routines in the MOS.

Maybe the 'VDU stream' overhead was significant, but if so that's a shame as it will have encouraged direct writes to screen RAM, which are entirely non-portable (even to a 2nd processor).