Date   : Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:52:55 -0000
From   : David Wooding <D.Wooding@...>
Subject: BBC BASIC port

>From www.ntk.net:

                                >> TRACKING <<
               sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering

         Who hasn't at some point yearned to write UNIX scripts in
         the Basic that came with the original 1982 BBC Computer?
         Everyone. Don't argue: everyone. BRANDY is a GPL'd port of
         BBC BASIC's last living descendant, BASIC V, to BSD/Unix,
         Windows/DOS, and RISCOS. From the PASCALish DEF PROC to the
         BBC's peculiar C-like indirection operators ! and ?, it's
         all here. Brandy's RISC version even has support for VDU 19
         and SOUND commands - it's up to you to implement those under
         the other platforms. Best of all, it's had the USENET seal
         of approval from Sophie nee Roger Wilson, the one-woman
         once-man whirlwind who wrote the first BBC Basic in
         assembler as well as creating most of the original Atom,
         designing the BBC screen font, and sketching out the first
         ARM RISC processor instruction set. Nice she's letting other
         people get their hand in these days.
         http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/dave_daniels/
                   - do hope it's not named after Brandon Butterworth
         http://digital-guru.de/stage2/et/bigtime2.htm
                                         - Sophie Creates An Industry

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David Wooding (D.Wooding@...         or david@...           )
Applied Vision Research Unit (http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/avru/)
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Derby, UK
[working from home]