Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC

On 31 December 2011 10:33, J.G.Harston <jgh at mdfs.net> wrote: Certainly that's what *I* was going to recommend, but I didn't know if source was available. BBC BASIC was far & away the best BASIC of the 1980s and one of the best BASIC interpreters ever. Those who condemn BASIC as a crappy or crippled language merely show that they've never seen the good ones. There were other BASICs worthy of attention - I retain a soft spot for Beta BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, and thus MasterBASIC on the SAM Coup?, and some of the "big computer" BASICs such as MICROS~1 QuickBASIC were actually pretty good - but BBC BASIC wasn't a late-period product, it was there right at the start in the very early 1980s and it runs on almost anything: BBC Micro, Archimedes, Sinclair Z88, Amstrad NC100/150/200, 6502, Z80, CP/M, Spectrum, MS-DOS, Windows, etc. There's a compatible FOSS interpreter, too, Brandy BASIC, but it's not as quick - BBC BASIC is also one of the fastest, if not *the* fastest, interpreted BASICs ever. Possibly one of the fastest interpreters ever. The ARM chip was originally simulated, and its instruction set worked out, in the form of a BBC BASIC program, although this is probably old news to CCmpers. </fanboy> -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884