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The BBC micro was a ridiculously good hobbyist / tinkering machine ever created. It had a bunch of easy to use interfaces both digital and analog. It had great
by Liambp 3y ago
The BBC micro was a ridiculously good hobbyist / tinkering machine ever created. It had a bunch of easy to use interfaces both digital and analog. It had great upgrade potential with interfaces for sideways roms and even a second processor. It also had a extremely fast Basic interpreter. The only thing that really limited it was the 64k memory limit due to the 16 bit addressing of the 6502 processor.
- afandian 3y agoI heard somewhere that all of those wonderful unshielded ports posed a barrier to entry in the US market. Fine in the UK. Not fine by the FCC.
- forinti 3y agoAcorn MOS allowed an extra 16 banks of sidways RAM, so you could get up to 256KB extra RAM, but you would need to buy an extra board. The B+ models (64/128KB) also had an extra 32KB of Shadow RAM, 20KB of which shadowed the address space used for video and the other 12KB was for the MOS. So a theoretically maxed out Beeb would have 32+32+256=320KB of RAM. The cool thing about Sideways RAM is that you could use it for data, code, or to load ROM images which would work as normal ROMs.
- Raed667 3y agoThe Micro Bit is a worthy successor in the time of the smartphone and iPad It abstracts aways the annoying part and lets you focus on what you want to build.