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I've been playing with the editor and seeing the effects. It's pretty fun but can someone explain to me like I'm 5 and fill me in on what this is ? BBC is the
by bilekas 4y ago
I've been playing with the editor and seeing the effects. It's pretty fun but can someone explain to me like I'm 5 and fill me in on what this is ?
BBC is the British broadcasting channel in the UK for me, and their 80/90's graphics were pretty much the same!?
- hvs 4y agoBASIC for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- FooHentai 4y agoThe language shipped on a computer the BBC released. This should fill in the gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- lproven 4y agoThe BBC did not release the BBC Micro. Acorn designed, built, released and sold it. You should have heard of them: Acorn is the original "A" in ARM. The BBC wanted to promote computer literacy in the UK, so intended to run TV and radio series, magazines, etc. It wanted a high-end user-programmable home computer that would be very expandable, with the priorities being a good BASIC, fairly fast, and a wide range of ports... rather than affordable (cf. ZX Spectrum) or a videogames machine (cf. Commodore VIC20 & C64, Atari 8-bits). It got it. For a while UK schools and universities ran almost entirely on BBC Micros. They weren't so common in the home as they were about 3-4x the price of a ZX Spectrum or C64. Acorn evaluated various chips for its planned next-gen machine, and discarded all of them as being too expensive, not powerful enough, etc. This included the Motorola 680000, the Intel 80186, the WDC 65C816, the NatSemi 32016 and others. So it designed its own: the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM for short. It's now the best-selling CPU in the world by about 2 orders of magnitude, so I reckon you've probably heard of it.
- pkage 4y agoIt's an emulation environment for the BBC Micro[0], a popular home computer distributed by the BBC in the early 1980s. There's a long history of /why/ the BBC was involved in producing computers, but the short version is that the BBC wanted to increase computer literacy in the UK and decided the best way of doing that was to create their own machine (partnered with private industry). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- bilekas 4y agoThanks! I was looking for something to play with over the weekend! Being an 80's baby I'm surprised I've never heard of it!
- thorin 4y agoAnd if you're interested in that watch the movie :-) https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM Micro men, story of the zx spectrum vs the bbc
- sedatk 4y agoAlso, BBC BASIC was developed by Sophie Wilson who later designed ARM processor architecture which we use everywhere today.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoWilson says it took one week from a design in her head, to design circuits, make the circuits, build prototype hardware and program it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7307636.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7307636.stm. Looks like they had a team of 4 people. That's incredible.
- thombat 4y agoI doubt I shall ever again have such a feeling of warping into the future as I got when moving from coding 6502 assembler on the Beeb to ARM-2 on the Archimedes. Suddenly there were enough registers. And they were all general purpose: use for arithmetic, use as an index, do whatever you need to. And all the instructions were conditional; hardly needed branches. And the memory map was flat. And everything was 32-bit. And no weird operand modes. And the best Beeb feature was still there: the assembler was still built-in to BBC Basic.