Someone that sells Mac software told me that the limit on 32 bit Mac software is at the store, the OS will be able to run 32 bit software just fine except one will have to install it manually. Is this

Richard, Apart from extra addressable memory space, what other advantages would a 64bit version offer? For example, would it be possible to handle the full range of modern (and future) screen sizes vi

Does anyone know of any reasonable ones? I was using http://teastop.co.uk/teletext/wxted/index.html for a while but it seemed to be very simplistic. Given that MODE 7 was used exetensively for BBS on

Richard I (think I) am getting closer to installing and running .bbc programs on my phone. Using Windows File Explorer on my PC, with the phone connected via a USB port, I can now see the folder struc

on Yesterday at 9:23pm, Richard Russell wrote: it is 100% BASIC, compatible with both BB4W and BBCSDL, and not complicated I like to think, or at least hope, that publishing these various demo program

I have downloaded the "Dibley" app and get the same results on the splash screen. Error message is "String too long" PAGE 4396800 LOMEM 6493952 END 4397798 HIMEM 4397798 I will try to send you a pictu

On the Archimedes I would often use use the Sprite graphics system to place bitmaps on the screen, selecting with *SCHOOSE and usually plotting with PLOT&ED. I could save the background screen to a te

I was playing around with Bedstead font in some documentation I was editing yesterday, and remembered a post that it now came with BB4W. (Bedstead is the SAA505x MODE 7 font) A quick test and it looks

Wikispaces (who host the BB4W and LBB wiki) are closing down later in the year; here is the official announcement. The two big advantages of Wikispaces over most other wiki hosting sites are the freed

To assist me in my elementary study of BBC4 I am writing a self help programme which enables me to select all that I understand about a particular keyword or process. Whenever I wish to print Vertical

Hi Richard, Thank you for all of your hard work in making BBC BASIC for SDL. I have a couple of niggles with BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 on macOS. The first on is that it uses the Ctrl key, rather than the

I've updated BBCSDL, the free cross-platform implementation of BBC BASIC, to version 0.20a. The various editions may be downloaded as follows: Windows (Vista or later): http://www.rtr.myzen.co.uk/bbcs

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