Date   : Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:56:21 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Steve Fewell <kranser@...>
Subject: How do I use Advanced BASIC from Sideways RAM?

--- Steve Fewell <kranser@...> wrote:
> I didn't know that BASIC V was available for the
> BBC!
> Does it work on the BBC MASTER, BBC B or both? Did
> Acorn write the ROM, or is it a hack by someone
> else?
> 
> Steve.

It's ok, I've found information about this now. It
used the HIBASIC 4.30 Acorn ROM from 1987 plus it's
own Advanced BASIC 1.02 ROM written by Colin C Dean
(1987).

Does anyone know how to use/activate Advanced BASIC?
The disk I have loads the Advanced BASIC ROM to
Sideways RAM socket 5 and the HIBASIC ROM to the
Sideways RAM socket 4 on boot.

I am using a BBC Master without TUBE, MOS 3.20, and
the Advanced BASIC ROM doesn't seem to reconise the
service call *ABASIC (does the MOS send service calls
to Sideways RAM sockets?).

*FX142, 5 mostly says 'Not a Language', but sometimes
it loads Advanced BASIC as follows:

Advanced BASIC
*

And it keeps me in the MOS prompt instead of the '>'
BASIC prompt!

Does anyone have the manual for this or know what I'm
doing wrong?

Thanks,
Steve.





               
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