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Now you've read the manual, time to start coding:

https://bbc.godbolt.org/

Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia...



That's amazing. Even forces me to use the proper UK keymap on my US keyboard!


Trying to remember where * lived!


If you fancy a modern take on this environment, RISC OS Pico is the 32-bit ARM version of BBC BASIC on top of the 32-bit ARM version of Acorn MOS:

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Software%...

Same language, editor, commands, etc. but about 2000x faster.

Runs great on a Raspberry Pi Zero, which is $5 and accepts USB peripherals & an HDMI screen.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero/

The same code will work but without fighting the weird restrictions of early-1980s hardware. (Even when emulated.)




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