When I introduced 64-bit integers into BBC BASIC I had a choice of whether the legacy 32-bit TIME should be treated as signed or unsigned. I decided to make TIME unsigned, but that has the disadvantag

One of the few things that irritates me about BBC BASIC is that there is no built-in way of assigning a memory address to a structure, something that you commonly want to do if (for example) you are u

I was trying to track down the cause of excessive CPU usage in one of my programs and eventually traced it to this code: REPEAT OFF K% = INKEY(4) UNTIL K% <> -1 At first glance this looks entirely inn

I have created a poll over at the forum to ascertain the degree of interest in having a breakpoint capability in SDLIDE (one of the two IDEs supplied with BBCSDL). If such a capability were added it w

There are three IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) available for use with the full (paid for) version of BBC BASIC for Windows: The standard IDE (bbcwin6.exe) supplied with BB4W, which is what

By popular request (well, three people!) I have created Console Mode editions of BBC BASIC for MacOS, Linux (64-bit), Windows (64-bit) and Raspbian (32-bit). These have *no graphics* and *no sound* (n

I've released version 1.14a of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 - the cross-platform programming language for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Raspbian, Android and iOS. The changes in this version are as follows: BASIC I

Is anybody familiar with JSON files? If you are, can you please pop over to the forum here and try to help the OP.

I'm developing a program which has worked as expected for 3 years or more, but about a month ago I found it would no longer print to a printer. It is also unable to create pdf files via Microsoft Prin

As reported in another thread, a bug in the BBC BASIC for Windows IDE has been discovered. There is an uninitialised flags bit which means that there is a 50:50 chance that the default printer will no

I recently requested assistance about how to search for specific data in multiple web sires through my BB4W program which I am trying to design to save vehicle registration plates to files. With kind

I have been using COMLIB for a few years now to work with Excel files and always been extremely happy with the functionality and performance. This last week I have been modifying a program and stumble

Hi Richard, Sorry to disturb you on what's probably a wild-goose chase, but I've a problem that's baffling me. I recently had to move to Windows 10 from Windows 7 (my old laptop died). All seems to be

I'm on the lookout for interesting demo / test / example programs that use only text features, i.e. no graphics, no sound, no mouse etc (and not MODE 7). The only such program in the current set of ex

With BBC Basic for Microsoft Windows it was possible to create something along the lines of a console mode program using the commands SYS "GetStdHandle", -10 TO @hfile%(1) etc. - see http://www.bbcbas

I don't have any new example programs lined up for the next release of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0. Are there any aspects of the language which could usefully be illustrated by an example, but don't yet hav

I've released version 1.13a of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 - the cross-platform programming language for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Raspbian, Android and iOS. The changes in this version are as follows: BASIC I

I've updated the BBC2APK Android Application Generator to version 1.05. The main differences from v1.04 are as follows: It will work whether the version of Java installed on your PC is 32-bits or 64-b

A new poll has been created: It would be helpful to get a feel for what proportion of BBCSDL users prefer Andy Parkes' 'BBCEdit' and how many my 'SDLIDE'. I should emphasise that I have no intention o

I can open multiple web pages thanks to urldownload procedure. Is it possible to input to these pages from the program in order to search for specific items on said sites, please?