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There's RISC OS Pico. It's a cut-down version of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi, without the GUI layer. It boots straight into Basic. http://weblambdazero.blogsp
by david-given 10y ago
There's RISC OS Pico. It's a cut-down version of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi, without the GUI layer. It boots straight into Basic.
http://weblambdazero.blogspot.ch/2015/11/modern-micro-with-risc-os-pico.html http://weblambdazero.blogspot.ch/2015/11/modern-micro-with-r...
It looks like this, and anyone who grew up with the BBC Micro will instantly recognise it:
RISC OS 192MB
ARM1176JZF-8 Processor
Piccolo Systems SDFS
ARM BBC BASIC VI (C) Acorn 1989
Starting with 97040636 bytes free
>_
That's also Acorn's structured Basic, with fast named procedures and multiline control statements, so it's actually reasonable for writing real programs in. It's pretty much COMAL. There's no structured types, unfortunately --- it's still a 1980s language --- but you get still get instant feedback that a traditional micro gave you (and the traditional Basic IDE experience, but I believe they also include the full-screen editor).
- 3chelon 10y agoInteresting project, but I actually think BASIC is a retrograde step, even with modern tweaks. Each to their own though... as I said in my original post, it's the spark of interest that matters I think, and they can forge their own path from there.