Date   : Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:57:57 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: BBC BASIC for the PDP-11

A little project of mine that I've been writing on and off for
some time is BBC BASIC for the PDP-11. Along with that I've
written a PDP-11 assembler (needed to assemble the code), a
disassembler and - crucially - a PDP-11 emulator to actually
run the code (other PDP-11 emulators are available).

Over Christmas I did quite a bit of updating to the code, and
realised that I'm very close to finishing it. I keep digging
away testing it and winkling out odd little bugs here and
there. If anybody would like to do some testing, the feedback
would be gratefully received.

See http://mdfs.net/Software/PDP11/BBCBasic/Docs/Install.htm
on how to get PDP-11 BBC BASIC running on your RISC OS or
Windows machine. The PDPTube emulator comes with PDP-11 BBC
BASIC within it, so just download it and run it.

PDPTube on Windows implements the Acorn VDU driver via BBC
BASIC for Windows underneath it. PDPTube on RISC OS naturally
uses the Acorn VDU driver directly. I'm working on implementing
a VDU driver for an ANSI console.

PDPTube/BBCBASIC-11 will also run on the ARM CoPro by running
it manually with:
   CHAIN "PDPEm basic/rom"

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