Richard, the splash screen works on both my Android 5.1 tablet and Android 7.0 phone however, it only displays for half a second or less (once I saw it for 2-3 seconds but can't repeat this). I would

A new poll has been created: Which of the three splash screens that you can view here do you prefer? If you are not a member of the forum you won't be able to vote there, so I will add together the vo

The Android edition's User Interface is very minimalist, which I like and which I think suits BBC BASIC. However if we ever had ambitions of making it available via the Google Play Store this would ne

An OS update to my Android phone (OnePlus 5) today has killed BBC BASIC: the only things that still work are scrolling the file menu and the Back button! Anything else, such as attempting to run a pro

It's messy to find the memory address of a string in BBC BASIC. In BB4W and BBCSDL you can use !^string$ but that can't work in a 64-bit environment because it returns a 32-bit value. What's more, you

Arguably if PTR( epxression) was generalised righthand side function generally you could also have PTR(value%) which is equivalent to ^value% PTR(value) ^value etc... Longer term if there is an intere

I want to write a program to operate on a .csv on my desktop. 10 directory$ = "C:\USERS\BRUCE\DESKTOP" 20 OSCLI "CD """+directory$+"""" only shows the .BBC program files in directory C:\USERERS\BRUCE\

Thanks for the pointers Richard Help doesn't run properly by itself so deeper probing required. Cheers Colin

Just to let you know, as you asked. BBCSDL doesn't work on my Google pixel phone 😥

Hi! my windows XP (I known it's old) has decided that on return from Help ,BBC basic is a threat to my computer and shuts it down.Basic not the computer and sends a report to Microsoft. How do I get i

​Hi, Has anyone implemented Wake on LAN (WoL) in BB4W? I'm looking for a WoL example to integrate with a program to control a Sony Bravia TV via the Simple IP protocol. Thanks in advance for any point

Currently the '<<<' operator (in BB4W and BBCSDL) is an alias of '<<', they do exactly the same thing. I'm wondering whether there would be some value in redefining '<<<' so that it acts as '<<' would

Recently read an interesting IEEE Spectrum article on the advances in getting complex stuff to run in any (supporting) web browser. Here's the link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/webass

I have locked the '64-bit indirection' topic because it no longer has any relevance. I also received one complaint and one resignation from the group as a result of what I posted there. I should never

In the context of a 64-bit version of BBC BASIC it would be useful to have a 64-bit integer indirection operator, in addition to the regular 32-bit ('!') and 8-bit ('?') operators. However there are n

I have finally joined the modern world and obtained a smart phone. I chose an LG K10 with an Android Nougat version 7.0 operating system and downloaded http://www.rtr.myzen.co.uk/BBCBasic.apk which se

Richard, Here I really show my ignorance, I only write simple programs to amuse myself. I have ‘Verbose’ text to speech on my computer. I can activate it to read the clipboard with Ctrl+shift+v I have

Over at the forum somebody asked for a Fire Animation in BBC BASIC. I have posted a simple, but effective, program there and you can also watch a YouTube video of the output. The program will run in b

How quickly things change. Only recently I listed Android as the remaining OS, apart from Windows, likely to continue supporting 32-bit apps in the medium term. However Google have announced that from

Here's a seasonal offering from Ron Stickley: The Sussex Carol, transcribed for the old Z80 Music Program in 1983. The code will run in 'BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0' (on all platforms, including the experim