Toby Thain wrote:
On 30/10/11 6:10 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
BBC BASIC
has an inline assembler for 6502?? Wow, that's wild. What
hardware would I need to cobble together to run that?
It's a good little assembler. Because of the integration with BASIC,
you get nice macro-ish facilities as well.
It runs on the BBC Microcomputer, and the BBC BASIC ROM is the usual
standard 16KB language ROM. You can probably get a BBC Micro on ebay;
I have no idea how many, if any, were sold in North America.
Some thousands sold in the US (with modifications for NTSC and 60Hz, and
changes to some spelling (COLOR for COLOUR, etc). I think it may have
had a modified (for 110V) PSU, but I remember a story about that.
Hmm, yes I don't recall if the stock PSU was guaranteed to work on 110V
automagically, and so the US models got exactly the same ones as the UK.
IIRC the US models had a lot of extra shielding in the case - although I
heard once that it wasn't strictly necessary to meet US regs, but just a
precautionary measure.
cheers
Jules