Date   : Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:27:21 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Anyone seen a BASIC III?

In article <003201c4264b$25681f80$640ebfac@...>,
   Darren Izzard <zysyshelp@...> wrote:

> >>The easiest way I can think of to work out
> >> if you have one is to type
> >>  10 COLOR 128
> >>  LIST
>
> >Doing the above test shows the same word 'COLOR' after LISTing. So I think
> >it's not BASIC III but just version II.
>
> I tried this on my B+ too and got the same result. Was there a special
> American NTSC version of the B+? That might be a good place to look for a
> BASIC III.

Bingo.

I'm not after a potted history of BASIC or any particularly cunning methods
of working out which version is which - I'm just in search of buying a
physical ROM, or a copy of a ROM image.

BASIC III as has been pointed out was supplied with the American build of
the beeb (along with a set of screen definitions in the MOS to drive NTSC
tellys) - hence my test to find if the alternative spelling of COLOR is
accepted.

It would appear from the machines people have been trying (along with my own
tests) that the B+ is BASIC II, so I guess we may be looking for anyone with
an American beeb too?
Sprow.