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BBC BASIC Test Programs

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ClockSp (L)
ClockSp4 (L)
ClockSp.txt
Speeds

ClockSp is a program that does various timed BBC BASIC actions to test
the speed of the interpreter. ClockSp is calibrated so that a BBC model B
with most interupts turned off gives 2.00MHz, ClockSp4 is calibrated so
that a BBC Master 128 with most interupts turned off gives 2.00MHz.

Environ (L)
EnvironDoc

Extracts and displays the environment a BBC BASIC program is running in.

VDU Driver tests

VDUTests.zip
VDUTests
VDUSpecs

Test programs to test a BBC VDU driver from BASIC

Cursor (L)
Colours (L)
ColourGrid (L)
CircleINT (L)
Ellipse (L)
Graphics (L)
Clipping (L)
Pixels (L)
Spiral (L)

Cursor movement
Display text colours, see link for examples
List all physical COLOUR numbers
Draw circles with integer arithmetic
Draw ellipse
Draw graphics shapes
Test graphics clipping

OsbyteA0 (L)
VDUList (L)
VDUVars (L)
ANSIGrid (L)
ANSIList (L)
ANSI

List VDU variables using OSBYTE &A0
List VDU variables using VDU() function
Summary of VDU variables using VDU() function
List all physical COLOUR numbers using ANSI sequences
Lists all ANSI <esc>[m colour sequences, see also link
Translating physical COLOUR numbers to ANSI sequences

Keyboard tests

KBDTests.zip
KBDTests

Test programs to test a BBC keyboard driver from BASIC

KBDTest (L)
KeyTest (L)
KeyScan (L)

Test GET, INKEY and low-level keyboard keypress values
Graphic display of keyboard negative INKEY keyscans
Textual display of keyboard negative INKEY keyscans

KeyDump (L)
KeyScanWin (L)

Raw dump of keyboard negative INKEY keyscans
Textual display of Windows native keyscans

Other I/O tests

ADVALTest (L)

Test reading devices with ADVAL

BASIC internals tests