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It was great that you could get ROMs for other languages. I learnt Pascal on a Beeb. There was also Lisp, Forth, and a few others. It also had the best resolut
by forinti 6y ago
It was great that you could get ROMs for other languages. I learnt Pascal on a Beeb. There was also Lisp, Forth, and a few others.
It also had the best resolution I ever saw on an 8 bit micro: mode 0 was 640x256 with one bit colour depth. This meant you could have 80 columns.
The one thing that I missed were colours: you only really had 8.
- teh_klev 6y agoI had the Acornsoft version of Forth, which loaded from a cassette tape :) But yeah, the sideways ROM feature was pretty amazing. I wrote up my final year college project in Wordwise running in a sideways ROM. Then I snagged a Torch Z80 coprocessor and could run a port of WordStar on CP/N (Torch's clone of CP/M). The project (all 600 pages of it) was then printed on a Juki 6100 daisywheel printer :)
- nickt 6y ago> Juki 6100 daisywheel printer Ahh, thanks, I’ve been trying to remember what that printer was for about 30 years!
- teh_klev 6y agoThe noisiest thing ever as well, clackety clack at 12cps, and thumpity thump as it did a carriage return :)
- Wildgoose 6y agoI had the Acornsoft Forth as well, (for the Acorn Atom). Ah, the memories!