Running BBC BASIC on Unix
- Download:
* bbcbasic for Bell Unix and BSD2.9 and earlier
* bsdbasic for BSD2.10 Unix and later
- Copy the file to an appropriate directory or into a Unix disk image with
a tool such as putr or
UxFiler with 'execute by all'
permissions (eg chmod 755), renaming bsdbasic to bbcbasic. On Unix a
suitable location is usually /usr/bin/bbcbasic.
- Alternatively, download the bbcpdp.zip archive
and extract it to your Unix system.
- Boot into into Unix, log on and type bbcbasic at the user
prompt.
- bbcbasic is also directly runnable on
PDPTube.
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Running BBC BASIC on a PDP11 Tube/CoPro
- Download basic.rom (13K, v0.29 21-Sep-2022).
- Load it into a bank of sideways RAM, or program it into an EPROM.
- With the PDP11 CoProcessor enabled, PDP11 BASIC will be the default
language and will be entered on Break or with *BASIC.
- Alternatively, the basic.rom file can be run from the PDP11>
prompt.
- bbcpdp.ssd contains some demo programs, as well as a
copy of basic.rom.
- bbcbasic and basic.sav are also directly runnable on
PDPTube.
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Running BBC BASIC on RT11, RSTS and UKNC
- Download basic.sav and
copy the file to an appropriate RT-11 disk image with a tool such as
putr.
- Alternatively, download the bbcpdp.dsk disk image.
- Boot into into RT-11, select the disk with ASSIGN xyz: DK: where xyz:
is the disk with BBC BASIC on it.
- Type RUN BASIC (or RUN xyz:BASIC where
xyz: is the disk the BASIC.SAV file is on.
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Demonstrations
The source archive includes some demo programs and
documentation.
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