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The BBC personal computer (that ran BBC Basic) also had a cool feature that allowed you to drop down into 6502 assembly language right in the middle of your BAS
by vram22 8y ago
The BBC personal computer (that ran BBC Basic) also had a cool feature that allowed you to drop down into 6502 assembly language right in the middle of your BASIC program, just by enclosing your assembly language statements in [ and ].
I remember trying it out at a British Council library which had one such machine available for members to use. Although I had done a little 6502 assembly language programming earlier (using both the PEEK and POKE approach as well as using an assembler), just for fun, on other home computers, I never got to do a lot of it, since by then, I moved on from BASIC and assembly to languages like Pascal and then C. Good times.
- laumars 8y agoThere were actually a few machines that ran BBC BASIC. I’ve got a BBC Micro model B hooked up in my “man cave” and I still play on that from time to time. I’ve also got a few Amstrads CPCs - another range of British 8bit micros. They ran Locomotive BASIC which was largely inspired by BBC BASIC so there is a hell of a lot in common between those two dialects.