For the first time ever, I have an accurate number (or more precisely an upper limit) for the number of users of a particular edition of BBC BASIC: twelve, for the iOS edition. I know this because eve

I am using the VDU 2 command to enable my printer but lo and behold my document prints but without any graphics - including my beautiful pi graph (Thanks to Richard) and any other graphics such as my

Hi all, Trying to develop a real world application using BBCSDL for Rasp Pi. For BB4W the code is: REM a simple terminal program. Port% = OPENUP "COM1: baud=9600 parity=N data=8 stop=1" REM Port% is a

To my irritation and embarrassment, I've just discovered that the ARM editions of BBCSDL return the wrong range of values from ADVAL(1) to ADVAL(3). Rather than being 0 to 65535, as they should be (an

Hi. I'm new to the group and have been resurrecting some old programs I wrote in the early 80's and beyond. Although my programs tend to run OK with BBC Basic there are suttle differences which cause

Just learning BB4W, a throw back to my old puta days. Im trying to build a program for work and i need a graphical interface where the user clicks particular boxes to input answers. What method would

One benefit of being forced to move the forum is getting a more reliable figure for the number of active users, because a lot of the members at the old forum(s) will have 'lapsed'. At the time of writ

Following close on the heels of the BBC BASIC wiki moving (because of the closure of wikispaces.com later this year) the forum has also been forced to relocate because of the short-notice closure of c

Because of the closure of Wikispaces later this year, the BBC BASIC Programmers' Reference wiki has moved. The new wiki can be found here, it is completely advertisement-free. The wiki has been moved

I've listed a simple program to draw a '3D' piechart at the new forum here. Please forgive the link, but the post was in part a test of embedding images and code listings. A particularly nice feature

Whilst the integral assembler is an important (and unique) feature of BBC BASIC, it has to be admitted that its usefulness in a cross-platform context is limited. Not only might you have to write (and

I'm not at all sure that this should work - I doubt that it was intentional - but it does: PROC1 SWAP PROC1,PROC2 PROC1 END DEF PROC1 PRINT "one" ENDPROC DEF PROC2 PRINT "two" ENDPROC Richard.

With the release of the *iOS* edition of BBC BASIC I think I can reasonably claim 'job done' as far as my own contributions are concerned. All the popular general-purpose computing platforms, both des

As you know (at least, you do if you're a BBC BASIC enthusiast!) the static integer variables L%, O% and P% are used by the assembler. Specifically, L% is the 'code limit' and allows the assembler to

Hi this is a fine product. I have written my first program in almost 20+ years Using BBC Basic. I love it. One problem. I wrote a little prog and used DATA statements to acces the 100 odd strings I ne

I'm in the process of converting a program originally written (by somebody else) for BBC BASIC for Windows (BB4W) to be suitable for BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 (BBCSDL). The program uses 2D graphics to dis

I think I've figured out how to distribute beta-test copies of 'BBC BASIC for iOS', within the constraints imposed by Apple anyway. The main restrictions are that every tester must be individually reg

The last-but-one edition of Hello World magazine contains a short article by a teacher explaining why he still teaches BBC BASIC (page 71). Admittedly he is referring to using a BBC Micro emulator, an

A new poll has been created: I know it's rather pathetic to create a poll for such a trivial question, but what the heck. I currently bundle Rubik.bbc with the desktop editions of BBCSDL but not with

I make no apologies for raising this subject again, as it seems increasingly likely that it will have to be addressed somehow. Apple's iOS is already 64-bits only, and they have announced that the nex