Date   : Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:29:03 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Commodore 64 BBC BASIC

Hi,

I think what helped keep BASIC small (and likewise under RISC OS) was that
certain parts of it were nice veneers for OS functionality. Take negative
INKEY for instance, all BASIC needs to do is make an OS call.

If your host OS doesn't provide these services, or does so in a completely
alien way, it will take correspondingly more coffee to provide the expected
language features. I can imagine twice the size...

By the way, "coffee" in the above paragraph was supposed to be "code" but
my phone's tappey-swipey 'keyboard' auto-corrected it to coffee and I thought
that to be suitably apt.


Best wishes,

Rick.

Subject: [BBC-Micro] Commodore 64 BBC BASIC
From: "J.G.Harston" <jgh@...>
To: BBC Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
CC: 

Well, (insert Bloodnock quote here)!

After years of hearing rumours and fruitless searching, I've tracked 
down Aztec's version of BBC BASIC for the Commodore 64: 
http://mdfs.net/bbcbasic/C64/

It turns out that the released version was very incomplete, more like a 
demonstration demo than a finished product. A lot of functionality is 
missing, even switching to MODE 0 causes it to start falling over. 
Strangely, considering that, the code image is 30K when even a fully 
functional version on the BBC is 16K; I would expect something maybe a 
few kilobytes longer adding an interface between BASIC and the C64 
kernel - not wholly twice as long.

-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh@...      - mdfs.net


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