The main difference between the ARM and x86 CPU types, as far as BBC BASIC is concerned, is that ARM does not support the 80-bit extended-precision (long double) floating-point format. The highest pre

WiFi is just a special case of a network connection, so the standard SOCKLIB library will work just the same with a WiFi connection as it does with wired ethernet or Bluetooth or any other physical ne

It turns out it isn't exactly a 'fault' but arises because the List Variables utility in bbcide is basically identical to the one in LB Booster, and Liberty BASIC has only one kind of numeric variable

I've just tried bbcide to see if it still works. It seems to, but there is evidently something seriously wrong with the List Variables utility because it is listing completely wrong values for some nu

The Version Info utility, like all the add-in utilities, is a BBC BASIC program. I only supply it as a 'compiled' exe, because that's what BB4W needs, but I have the BASIC source code and as I said it

I didn't respond to this previously, but for the record: It's true that there is no "navigation pane or quick access to external storage/network shares, etc". I don't know how that could be achieved o

As there seems to be a little interest in using SDLIDE with BB4W I will make sure that these features work before the next release of BBCSDL.

I think there's been a misunderstanding. Using SDLIDE as a front end to BB4W doesn't require anything to be 'compiled'; as previously discussed I've simply created a shortcut for it on my desktop. Tha

I appreciate that there are other reasons why you are unable or unwilling to use the SDLIDE approach, but for the record I've succeeded in 'compiling' a completely self-contained development environme

Indeed, that's another good point. BBC BASIC specifically supports sharing its @usr$ folder so that you can transfer programs and data via iTunes the Files app. It would be pretty useless without that

From the image you sent separately, the probable explanation is that you tried to upgrade BB4W with an instance of BB4W still running. The installer says "It is recommended that you close all other ap

All the Version Info utility does is to create a .res file in the same directory as your BASIC program. You could continue to run it from the BB4W IDE when you need to modify the VERSIONINFO data (whi

I am certainly not going to be doing that. Abandoning support for OpenGL ES 3D and shader programming, which (as far as my knowledge goes) necessarily occupy the entire screen, is something that I wou

Whilst playing with the Box2D Physics Engine in BBCSDL I spotted an obscure bug in the 'box2dlib.bbc' library (an unwanted dependence on the value of a static variable). It turns out that this same bu

I was careful to say "the output from which can occupy the entire screen" and that is the crucial point. Apple do not permit in the App Store a programming language which can take over the whole scree

The best/easiest way would be to create a utility similar to the existing bbc2apk tool (which creates a self-contained Android app from a BBC BASIC program) but which creates an iOS app instead - let'

Nobody? I'm surprised that so few members seem to own iOS devices, perhaps Android is more popular here.

Here are the latest version numbers for each of my current BBC BASIC products: BBC BASIC for Windows (BB4W): version 6.14a For Microsoft Windows only. No longer being actively developed, Updated rough

Note that the webgllib library's use of shaders seems to interfere with the normal operation of SDL 2.0, so that if you CHAIN another program or return to immediate mode you can end up with a black sc

As you should be aware, the iOS edition of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 is distributed using Apple's Ad Hoc mechanism, because general-purpose programming languages (the output from which can occupy the enti