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BBC Micro

First, let’s review about where BBC BASIC gained its foothold…

  • Emulator (browser-based)
  • BBC Micro Users Guide (PDF)
  • Learn to write games for the BBC Micro with Eben
  • Books via 8-Bit Software
  • Wikipedia

BBC BASIC

BBC BASIC

If you want to recreate the old school vibe, in the browser…

  • BBC BASIC EDITOR (Browser)

Or if you want to leverage BBC BASIC as it has evolved to work directly on modern hardware…

  • BBC BASIC: Richard Russell’s BBC BASIC portal.
  • BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0: for Windows, Linux (86), MacOS, Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS. on GitHub
  • BBC BASIC “Console Mode”
  • QBASIC to BBC BASIC translator
  • BBC BASIC (Z80)
  • RISC OS Direct for Raspberry Pi: A RISC OS for Raspberry Pi image that has a particular emphasis on programming RISC OS and contains BBC BASIC 5/6 as well as many other programming languages pre-installed.
  • BASIC Tips & Tricks
  • Brandy: An interpreter for BBC Basic (or Basic V as it is sometimes referred) that runs under a variety of operating systems such as RISC OS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, reeBSD, Linux, Mac OSX, Amiga OS, DOS (extender) and Windows.
  • Napoleon Brandy Basic V Interpreter: Napoleon Brandy is development of David Daniels Brandy basic, an interpreter for BBC Basic (or Basic V), This project can not claim ANSI C compliance as Brandy Basic did, but supports Graphics for the platforms implemented. OS currently supported are Win32 and DOS. Currently a preview release as it is functionally incomplete.
  • Matrix Brandy BASIC VI: a multi-platform BBC BASIC VI interpreter with optional SDL graphics support, released under the GNU General Public License version 2+. It is a fork of David Daniels’ Brandy BASIC, base-lined at version 1.20.1 from his Sourceforge release, which hasn’t seen any updates since 2014.
  • bbasic: An interpreter for a subset of BBC BASIC II.
  • atom-language-bbcbasic: Atom grammar for the BBC Basic language.
  • Retrocoding fun with BBC BASIC
  • BBC Micro Screen Formats

Very Cool!!!!

  • BBC Micro Bot: Welcome to 8-bit cloud. Send a tweet to @bbcmicrobot and it will run it on a 1980s 8-bit computer emulation! Source (GitHub)
  • Fun with BBC Micro Bot

Additional Resources

  • Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
  • The Mighty Micro (1979)
  • The Computer Programme (BBC2, 1982)
  • RISC OS Programmer’s Reference - The Window Manager
  • btracker: A chiptracker editor and player for the BBC Micro.
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