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Looking at the difference page, it's not BBC BASIC as one might remember it. But that's not possible outwith actual BBC Micro hardware, complete with Kenneth K
by JdeBP 3y ago
Looking at the difference page, it's not BBC BASIC as one might remember it. But that's not possible outwith actual BBC Micro hardware, complete with Kenneth Kendall's voice in ROM. And I suspect that Kenneth Kendall cannot be open sourced. (-:
It looks like it has preserved the spirit of BBC Micro development on modern platforms, though.
The use of INKEY$(-256) to determine underlying platform is amusing.
- fanf2 3y agoIt’s a reimplementation in C by Richard Russell. If you want a version by Sophie Wilson (who created BBC BASIC) there’s one in RISC OS written in ARM assembler.
- fanf2 3y agoBugger, I forgot the link, https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/RiscOS/Sources/Programmer/BASIC https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/RiscOS/Sources/Programmer/BASI...
- binarycrusader 3y agoFor those curious what Kenneth’s sampled / synthesized voice sounded like:https://youtu.be/_goT9PPpn7I?si=WKdkH4VMlKCLEZ78 https://youtu.be/_goT9PPpn7I?si=WKdkH4VMlKCLEZ78
- dfawcus 3y agoWell one could always grab his "BBC BASIC (86) Plus for MS-DOS" from his site (https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/dosbasic.zip https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/dosbasic.zip), and run it in some from of "DOS Box". As his page about it states: "BBC BASIC (86) Plus is an implementation of BBC BASIC for PC compatibles running MS-DOS™; it has been designed to be as compatible as possible with Version 4 of the 6502 BBC BASIC resident in the BBC Micro Master series." (https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/bbcdos.html https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/bbcdos.html) That should then give you something close to the form I used on my Model A back around '83.