I've referred to this issue before, but it might be helpful to revisit it (if only for newcomers). Web Assembly code, for running in a browser, has the unusual characteristic that function signatures

Hello I’m migrating from a Windows laptop to a MacBook, and would like to bring my BBC BASIC programs with me. Having got started with a “Hello World” program, I’m experimenting with some file I/O. Op

Any plans or feasibility to port BBC BASIC to the new MAC Arm ?

If you've been following the thread at StarDot you'll know that I have recently written two versions of Conway's Game of Life in BBC BASIC: one using shaders (you may or may not consider that cheating

For those who don't also read the StarDot forum, here's a link to a shader implementation of Conway's Game of Life in BBC BASIC (needs a compatible browser, as always): click here.

I won't cross-post it, because the message is quite long (especially once the URLs are expanded), but here's a link to the StarDot forum where I've listed direct links to the various demos for the in-

2021 will see both the 40th anniversary of BBC BASIC (and of the BBC Microcomputer of course) and the 20th anniversary of BBC BASIC for Windows. Depending on how you pinpoint the birth of BBC BASIC (I

I previously published routines for allocating and freeing blocks of memory in BASIC's heap, which overcome the limitations of DIM. However I didn't include an equivalent of the realloc API, which all

Hi Richard I'm a newbie to BBC BASIC (cutting my teeth on Liberty BASIC after a long gap playing around with BASIC in the 80s) and you were kind enough to respond to a question from me on the BASIC P

Hi and happy new year, I have written a few very simple programs using BBCSDL (ver. 1.18a) on a laptop running Win8.1 which run successfully. I would now like to transfer the programs or listings to a

When I first developed BBC BASIC for Windows, more than 20 years ago, my intention was to incorporate most of the extensions in Acorn's BASIC 5. Unfortunately one that I missed (somehow its existence

Just found this group. Its a bit unstructured compared to the other discusion forum. Is this just the way it is? Is there a way to add a prefix to message to indicate the subject that coul dbe filtere

Much as I regret the UK's departure from the European Union, it does mean that VAT is no longer due on purchases of BBC BASIC for Windows from those 27 countries. This represents a 20% price cut for t

I have noticed a strange and unexpected difference between the way my Console Mode editions of BBC BASIC behave on Windows compared with Linux and MacOS. I have tracked it down to what happens in the

I've been experimenting with embedding a BBC BASIC program in the URL. This is only practical with short programs, and it must be encoded to be 'URL safe' (i.e. not include any characters which are il

Currently, both the BB4W and BBCSDL IDEs have an entry in their respective Help menus which takes you to the forum. I don't want to leave them that way when next updated, because the forum is no longe

A new poll has been created: A few of the example programs supplied with BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 are potentially useful in their own right, rather than simply demonstrating language capabilities and cod

The discussion in the IMGLIB thread raises an interesting issue. Currently both the imglib and aagfxlib libraries supplied with BBCSDL clip their output to the current graphics viewport (VDU 24...), i

Over at the BBC BASIC forum, to which I am not able to post, somebody has proposed a modification to the BB4W IMGLIB library. Please be warned that this modification is dangerous: it introduces a mass

BBC BASIC supports two quite different mechanisms for handling memory (i.e. RAM): managed memory objects and unmanaged memory objects. Unmanaged memory objects are blocks of RAM allocated from the hea