7 Mar
2012
7 Mar
'12
3:17 p.m.
That's a cute little 6502 SBC, but when I think of
a BBC Micro, I
remember coding children's games for it in 1984 with sound and
graphics. Was the Model B something else entirely or is this just a
text-centric subset?
You rememebr correctly (or at least you could do ;-)). The original BBC
micro came in 2 models, A and B, they were built o nthe smae PCB. The A
had quite a few ICs not fited so it only had 16K RAM (as against 32K i
nthe model B) amd most of the interfaces were not implemented (in somce
cases this meant leaving out a couple of cheap ICs but fitting DIL
socketes in their palce so the machien could be upgraded later, I am not
sure this was sensible!).
All BBC micros had grpahics (rather better on the B model as some modes
needed 20K of video RAM which was clearly impossible on a 16K machine)
and soucd.
-tony