Date   : Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:26:33 +0100
From   : Michael Borcherds <emulators@...>
Subject: Re: BASIC IV: Coded Line Number

Brian Widdas <brian@...> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Peter Craven wrote:
> >  I looked at the site you sent. In other places there it mentions BASIC
> > V. I did not realise there was a BASIC V produced. Do you know who
> > dseigned and produced it? What improvement did it have over BASIC IV? Do
> > you have a copy of it? Can it be put on to an EPROM and used in a Master
> > instead of BASIC IV??
> 
> BASIC V is BBC BASIC for RISC OS. It had new control structures, such as
> CASE, the SWI instruction for interacting with RISC OS, and the assembler
> was ARM rather than 6502.

... although "Advanced BASIC" is a cut down version of BASIC V for the
BBC B/Master.

It wasn't sold by Acorn but must have been produced in cooperation with
them.

It's hosted at:
http://8-bit.summerfield-technology.co.uk/bbc/bbc-software.html

cheers,

Mike

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