On 6 March 2012 23:36, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Liam Proven
<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I'd not met this before. Apologies if
it's general knowledge.
A small single-board recreation of an Acorn BBC Micro model B.
http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/minib.htm
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?
I guess it's just a text-centric subset, then. It does appear to be at
least partially BBC-compatible, though.
In my somewhat vague recollection, many people /did/ use the BBC as a
text-centric machine, because in Mode 7, with the Mullard teletext
chip generating the display, you got the most available free memory
from its meagre 32KB. Certainly many of the ones I saw
in labs at
university had got things like the
READY
... prompt, in Mode 7's rounded characters, burned into their
Microvitec Cub monitors. That or the function-key strip from Acornsoft
View or whatever the sideways-ROM-based word-processor was called.
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