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  BBC BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC BASIC was developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home/personal computer, mainly by Roger Wilson.
BASIC VI is a version of BASIC V that supports 8 byte format real numbers (according to IEEE standard 754) as opposed to the standard 5 byte format introduced in BASIC I. BBC BASIC V and VI were delivered as standard on the Acorn Archimedes and the Risc PC.
A Zilog Z80-version of BBC BASIC was later used on the Tiki 100 desktop computer, Cambridge Z88 portable and the Amstrad NC100 Notepad and Amstrad NC200 Notebook computers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_BASIC_programming_language   (643 words)

  
 BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Programming languages in the batch programming era tended to be designed, like the machines on which they ran, for specific purposes (such as scientific formula calculations or business data processing or eventually for text editing).
The original BASIC language was designed in 1963 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
Notwithstanding the language's use on several minicomputers, it was the introduction of the Altair 8800 microcomputer in 1975 that provided BASIC a path to universality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BASIC_programming_language   (3173 words)

  
 BBC BASIC programming language - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
BBC BASIC was developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the 6502-based Acorn BBC Microcomputer.
It was a version of BASIC adapted for a computer literacy project of the BBC.
A Z80-version of BBC BASIC was later used on the Cambridge Z88 portable.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/BBC_BASIC   (108 words)

  
 Appendix D: BBC BASIC
BBC BASIC is still one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages.
BASIC V is in the ROM and is almost identical to the BASIC V supplied with earlier versions of RISC OS.
BASIC 64 can also be started from the New task option on the Task manager menu or from the command line (press F12).
acorn.riscos.com /riscos3/37/37DiscImage/Manuals/Manual/BOOK3B/BOOK3_9.HT   (1469 words)

  
 BBC Basic Programming
BBC Basic has been in use for two decades so it is well tried and tested.
BBC Basic is designed to show the power of programming when the user may know only a handful of commands.
A BBC Basic program may only be a few lines long and yet produce strikingly useful, beautiful or amusing results.
web.onetel.com /~richardweston   (575 words)

  
 BBC BASIC for Windows - User reviews and free download at Download.com
BBC BASIC should be a requirement in any programmers or teachers toolkit.
BBC BASIC for Windows is an ideal first programming language to learn and is emminantly suitable for teaching programming to both children and adults.
Help is available not only in the manual, but also within the program's context-sensitive help, which allows you to point to a keyword, of instance, to quickly get a full explanation of how the keyword is used (excellent for use with the tons of example programs included).
www.download.com /BBC-BASIC-for-Windows/3640-2069_4-10351776.html?sb=3&v=1   (801 words)

  
 R.T.Russell: BBC BASIC for Windows
BBC BASIC is the programming language originally specified and adopted by the British Broadcasting Corporation for their groundbreaking Computer Literacy Project of the early 1980s.
The program and any embedded files can optionally be encrypted, to make it much harder for their contents to be discovered by examining the executable file.
Programs which relied on the previous (incorrect) size may need to reduce the height and width of the graphics viewport by one pixel.
www.bbcbasic.co.uk /products/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin0.html   (4238 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - BASIC Programming Language
BASIC may have been the first language written with the intent of being used by non-computer professionals.
The BBC Micro had been designed as part of a BBC plan to introduce computers to the general population (since Britain had been lagging to a degree behind the US in the percentage of homes and classrooms with computers).
BASIC still Exists today in Microsofts QBASIC and a few other products, and also as Visual BASIC, a Object Oriented language developed by Micrsoft, though it is less popular than many of the other OOP langauges.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A579855   (1184 words)

  
 The BBC lives! -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
BBC BASIC: the default language for the BBC micros
BBC floppy diskettes use "single density" compared to "modern" diskettes used on PCs (which are "double" and "high" density).
BBC Explorer is a drag-and-drop Windows program that can create a new disk image from dragged BBC files or their *.inf files, or extract such files from an exisiting image.
www.nvg.ntnu.no /bbc/faq.php3   (4303 words)

  
 PLNews: Programming Language News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
News, articles, announcements and information focusing on computer programming languages and their implementations.
BBC BASIC for Windows 5.30a has been released.
It is an embeddable, non-interactive interpreter for a subset of BASIC.
tacojuice.org /plnews/Languages/BASIC/index.html   (535 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - BASIC Programming Language - A645121
When the microprocessor was introduced in the early 1970s, many of the young people introduced to BASIC in elementary schools started building computers from kits and went on to start companies.
BASIC began to fade away from the limelight when languages like C and Pascal got good compilers and interpreters for small machines.
BASIC still exists today in Microsofts QBASIC and a few other products, and also as Visual BASIC, an object-oriented language developed by Microsoft, though it is less popular than many of the other object-orientated programming languages.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A645121   (1336 words)

  
 ' BBC BASIC for Windows ' in Programming > Languages folder
This is an implementation of the BBC BASIC programming language for PCs running Microsoft Windows (Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 or XP), providing the programmer with a familiar language but with a modern user interface.
It combines the simplicity of BASIC with the sophistication of a structured language, allowing you to write utilities and games, use sound and graphics, perform calculations and create complete Windows applications.
BBC BASIC for Windows uniquely incorporates an assembler which generates 32-bit code and accepts all 80486 instructions and some Pentium-specific instructions (except special-register and privileged instructions), including floating-point and MMX.
www.programfiles.com /Default.asp?LinkId=37430   (322 words)

  
 emulation.net
The BBC was designed by the UK company Acorn, makers of the Archimedes.
Tries to implement much of the BBC command set - it doesn't do things beginning with * (ROM calls or something if I remember) and some of the VDU codes are not covered, I think.
Basically fills the whole screen up with a BBC Micro view; the only concessions to the Mac are a menu bar and a text window for editing programs.
www.komkon.org /EMUL8/Macintosh/bbcmicro/index.html   (281 words)

  
 BASIC Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page
Chipmunk Basic uses a vintage traditional-style command-line console, but note that line numbers are not required to run Basic program written using an external text editor.
Chipmunk Basic was featured in the Programming Paradigms column of the December 1995 issue of Dr.
A small implementation of the Basic language, written in C, that was posted to alt.sources.
www.nicholson.com /rhn/basic   (2527 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | User pain may mean Windows cracks
Microsoft is putting a lot of effort into securing the Vista kernel, the program that sits at the centre of the system and provides all the functions that other programs need, including access to the hardware and any peripheral devices like disks and networks.
In 1976 he wrote a letter to the hobbyist's Homebrew Computer Club complaining that he was not being paid for copies of his version of the BASIC programming language, saying that "most of you steal your software" and "the thing you do is theft".
There is another way of developing programs and dealing with bugs, one which has had remarkable success in building programs that are used by millions of people every day.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/5271386.stm   (1124 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: BASIC
History of BASIC - A history of one of the most commonly used programming languages.
VMM Basic - A virtual machine that execute a byte-code program, compiled from language, the syntax is similar to Basic languages, that have intern motion detection commands, intern sprite commands based on DirectX, network commands, for simplify game development.
BASIC Programming - A compiler author's thoughts on programming in BASIC.
dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/BASIC   (776 words)

  
 Wine Application DB - Browse Applications
The.NET Framework is a development and execution environment that allows different programming languages and libraries to work together seamlessly to create Windows-based applications that are easier to build, manage, deploy, and integrate with other networked systems.
VO is a Windows application development environment with a programming language that resembles Clipper with many object-oriented extensions.
This program is a program for developing vertex shaders.
appdb.winehq.org /appbrowse.php?catId=6   (1738 words)

  
 Wapipedia Index: BB
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobileindex.aspx?letter=BB   (68 words)

  
 BBC BASIC - MDFS::Software.$.BBCBasic
BBC BASIC has been implemented on many platforms, starting with the BBC Micro in 1981.
It has also been implemented in portable C that can be compiled on almost any platform with a C compiler.
BBC BASIC is not a BBC emulator, it is an implementation of the BBC BASIC programming language.
www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk /Software/BBCBasic   (115 words)

  
 Wine Application DB - Viewing App - BBC BASIC for Windows
The are a couple of minor graphics issues with some of the bundled demo BASIC programs.
BBC BASIC can also make stand alone EXE files, and these also run without problems on Wine.
An implementation of the BBC BASIC programming language for Windows.
appdb.winehq.org /appview.php?appId=1426   (96 words)

  
 Free BASIC Compilers and Interpreters (thefreecountry.com)
Just because a program, book or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents.
It includes a VB compiler (VB.NET compiler/Visual Basic compiler that generates.NET virtual machine code, not native code) that was still under development at the time of this writing, a runtime for CLR (the Common Language Infrastructure) and a set of libraries.
Chipmunk BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Mac and PowerMac.
www.thefreecountry.com /compilers/basic.shtml   (1570 words)

  
 BBC BASIC For Windows 4.0b - Downloads at Builder UK
This is an implementation of the BBC BASIC programming language for Windows PCs.
It combines the simplicity of BASIC with the sophistication of a modern structured language.
As well as providing compatibility with other versions of BBC BASIC it supports access to the Windows GUI and includes a full 80x86 assembler.
uk.builder.com /downloads/0,39026696,39177639s,00.htm   (104 words)

  
 BBC BASIC for Windows - Download BBC BASIC for Windows at MyZips
It combines the simplicity of BASIC with the sophistication of a structured language, allowing you to write utilities and games, use sound and graphics, perform calculations and create complete Windows applications.The Graphical User Interface includes a BASIC program editor with syntax colouring, live indentation, search&replace and many other features.
Line numbers are optional.BBC BASIC for Windows uniquely incorporates an assembler which generates 32-bit code and accepts all 80486 instructions and some Pentium-specific instructions (except special-register and privileged instructions), including floating-point and MMX.
VMM Basic have intern motion detection commands to make interactive games for your webcam, intern sprite commands based on DirectX to make any 2d game, network commands to make online games and more.
www.myzips.com /software/BBC-BASIC-for-Windows.phtml   (410 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: BASIC: BBC BASIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
BBC BASIC for Windows - BBC BASIC interpreter for Windows environments.
Program Your PC - Features tutorials, a section dedicated to beginners to the language and programs.
Russell - The company was established in 1983 to supply BBC BASIC interpreters for the Zilog/Mostek Z80 and Intel 80x86 ranges of processors.
dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/BASIC/BBC_BASIC   (124 words)

  
 Languages - Others Software
Simulator is ideal to debug short programs, and to study assembly language programming as part of computer science course.
The "FTP Client Engine for Visual Basic" (FCE4VB) is a FTP client library component that provides control of the FTP client protocol.
It also is easy-to-master, and can be your first, as well as tenth programming language.
www.filedudes.com /003073-2-1.html   (643 words)

  
 The RISC OS Products Directory - Software Products - Programming
Squashes BASIC programs down to size by replacing variable names with single letters and removing comments.
It is an imperative mathematical/logical notation (and a functional programming language) which uses only the symbols on the keyboard.
Function/procedure names are copied from the BASIC file and given to their corresponding subroutines in the assembly source.
productsdb.riscos.com /swcat/prog.htm   (773 words)

  
 Only the Best BBC Micro Games / BBC Games from the past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
These pages contain various ROM files for the BBC Microcomputer.
os12.zip - This is the base Operating System for a BBC Model B. basic.zip - This ROMS contains the BBC BASIC Programming language.
BBC ROMS.zip - Both of the above ROMS in one ZIP file.
www.bbcmicrogames.com /roms.html   (178 words)

  
 Filebasket - Programming › Encoding / Decoding Programs › BBC BASIC for Windows 4.00b Free Downloads at ...
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The Graphical User Interface includes a BASIC program editor with syntax colouring, live indentation, search and replace and many other features.
The program will work silently in the background, and notify you when there are changes to these important sites or blogs.
www.simtel.net /product.php[id]89807[cid]101[SiteID]filebasket   (362 words)

  
 Tutorials From FunctionX
FunctionX Tutorials is a web site intended to provide lessons, articles, and links on the general and particular uses of the computer.
The topics range from basic computer use to databases, from web development to computer programming, from spreadsheets to libraries.
This is an example of a file-based database with records being saved as text but the application functioning as a database.
www.functionx.com   (162 words)

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