BBC BASIC is an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language. It was developed by Acorn Computers Ltd when they were selected by the BBC to supply...
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was its built-in BBC BASIC programming language, known for its robust feature set and accessible syntax. As a home system, the BBC also fostered a community...
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Second-generation BASICs (for example, VAX Basic, SuperBASIC, True BASIC, QuickBASIC, BBC BASIC, Pick BASIC, PowerBASIC, Liberty BASIC, QB64 and (arguably) COMAL) introduced...
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Sophie Wilson (section BBC micro)
Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language. She first began designing the ARM...
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, the...
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WordBasic (pre-VBA) (MS Windows) Atari BASIC BBC BASIC Integer BASIC Locomotive BASIC An Open Letter to Hobbyists Tiny BASIC Sources differ in regard to the...
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Russian Air Force, often shortened to ВВС in Cyrillic BBC Micro, a 1980s home computer BBC BASIC, a programming language BBCode, a message board markup...
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Richard T. Russell (redirect from Richard Russell (BBC Basic))
Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC. He was educated at Gravesend...
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"very influenced" by BBC BASIC, though adding additional functions to do things that would have required assembly language on the BBC.[1] The "ARNOLD" platform...
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the BBC Micro, along with additional commands and system calls plus a variety of enhancements. The improved version of BBC Basic was named Basic 4, fixing...
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BBC America is an American basic cable network owned by AMC Networks. The channel primarily airs sci-fi and action series and films, as well as selected...
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BASICs to be integrated into a microcomputer's operating system (unlike BBC BASIC which preceded it in 1981), making the OS user-extendable—as done by Linus...
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Programme itself. The BBC Home Service had seven different regions, within London and South East England was served by the "basic" service, which was not...
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address book and time manager), a simple calculator, and a version of the BBC BASIC interpreter. The computer's design, evocative of the TRS-80 Model 100...
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underlying system was greatly expanded to produce BBC BASIC on the Atom's successor, the BBC Micro. BBC BASIC ROMs were later offered to Atom users. Acorn...
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DarkBASIC and BBC BASIC. On October 30, 2009, it was announced that Box2D was being integrated into the (now older) Torque 2D game engine. BBC Basic for...
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MOS sufficiently for 8-bit BASIC programs not containing assembly language to run without modification. Also in BBC BASIC, not only does the numeric variable...
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developed entirely independently by Richard Russell and is written in BBC BASIC. LBB offers (typically) increased execution speed, smaller self-contained...
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Atom which allowed users to switch between Atom BASIC and the more advanced "BBC BASIC" used by the BBC Micro. The upgrade was purely to the programming...
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Acorn Archimedes (redirect from BBC Archimedes)
preserves a degree of compatibility with Acorn's earlier machines, offering BBC BASIC, support for running 8-bit applications, and display modes compatible...
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changed to 16. MSX BASIC, QuickBASIC, FreeBASIC and Visual Basic prefix hexadecimal numbers with &H: &H5A3 BBC BASIC and Locomotive BASIC use & for hex. TI-89...
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This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects – interpreted and compiled variants of the BASIC programming language. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e...
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not case-sensitive), such as ABAP, Ada, most BASICs (an exception being BBC BASIC), Common Lisp, Fortran, SQL (for the syntax, and for some vendor implementations...
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ARM architecture family (section BBC Micro)
the instruction set, writing a simulation of the processor in BBC BASIC that ran on a BBC Micro with a second 6502 processor. This convinced Acorn engineers...
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BASICs—for example, SBASIC (1976), BBC BASIC (1981), True BASIC (1983), Beta BASIC (1983), QuickBASIC (1985), and AmigaBASIC (1986) -- introduced a number...
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denote a hexadecimal number, such as &FF for decimal 255, for instance in BBC BASIC.[citation needed] (The modern convention is to use "x" as a prefix to...
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language BBC BASIC ROM, with 6502 assembler built in, supplied with the BBC Micro is the default application used for this purpose. The BBC Micro would...
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Programmable calculator (section BASIC)
the On-Board C Compiler for fx series Casio calculators and the TI-83 BBC Basic port. One possibility arising from the above is writing interpreters,...
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included: TIKO, a CP/M 2.2-compatible operating system A version of the BBC BASIC programming language interpreter A COMAL interpreter Optional expansions:...
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1987 BBC Micro ROM called Acornsoft View Professional), along with several other applications and utilities, such as a Z80-version of the BBC BASIC programming...
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