[HN Gopher] BBC Basic Editor ___________________________________________________________________ BBC Basic Editor Author : bpierre Score : 142 points Date : 2022-07-15 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (bbcmic.ro) (TXT) w3m dump (bbcmic.ro) | peter_retief wrote: | The share code didn't fit in a tweet. What am I missing here? | makeworld wrote: | The tweet comes first. | | > BBC Micro bot runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. | | https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet-test2.html | pvg wrote: | Previous 50 comment discussion from Nov 2020 with some author | talk: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256853 | bilekas wrote: | I've been playing with the editor and seeing the effects. It's | pretty fun but can someone explain to me like I'm 5 and fill me | in on what this is ? | | BBC is the British broadcasting channel in the UK for me, and | their 80/90's graphics were pretty much the same!? | hvs wrote: | BASIC for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro | FooHentai wrote: | The language shipped on a computer the BBC released. This | should fill in the gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro | pkage wrote: | It's an emulation environment for the BBC Micro[0], a popular | home computer distributed by the BBC in the early 1980s. | There's a long history of /why/ the BBC was involved in | producing computers, but the short version is that the BBC | wanted to increase computer literacy in the UK and decided the | best way of doing that was to create their own machine | (partnered with private industry). | | [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro | thorin wrote: | And if you're interested in that watch the movie :-) | | https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM | | Micro men, story of the zx spectrum vs the bbc | sedatk wrote: | Also, BBC BASIC was developed by Sophie Wilson who later | designed ARM processor architecture which we use everywhere | today. | bilekas wrote: | Thanks! I was looking for something to play with over the | weekend! Being an 80's baby I'm surprised I've never heard of | it! | zabzonk wrote: | Sorry, don't get what this is about, and I'm an ex BBC Micro | user. Enlighten me? | angrygoat wrote: | There's an explanation here: https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet- | test2.html | | > BBC Micro bot runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. | Below is output from 1000 programs that different users | submitted to the bot. Click any to see source. | jamiek88 wrote: | Oh the memories! | | I haven't coded since then and am about to start again, I wish | learning now was as easy as control break to start again. | | We squeezed everything out of basic then started learning | assembly. | | We fucking owned our school econet making a port scanner that | polled station 100 (the teacher admin station) to eventually get | his password for *I AM SYS. | | Password was paramecium!!! It took days to poll. | | Then we got a copy of the advanced user guide for BBC Master and | became gods. | | My best mate and hacking buddy went by Bruteus, I was Apollo! | | Bruteus ? You on hacker news?! | | We then used to change our station number to 100 whenever we | logged in to do naughtiness. (?&d22=100) It drove the admin crazy | reading logs or the printer spool we'd randomly trigger. | | Our opsec was poor though and we boasted to the wrong person who | snitched. | | Suspended from school and banned from all networked machines. | | Still think they should have brought us in to volunteer instead. | | A physics teacher actually let us use his non networked computer | because he saw we had talent and interest and he tried to harness | it. He was awesome. He put us in charge of downloading the NOAA | data to do weather maps via cassette tape! | | Then when the admins car had left we had a sneaky super long eco | net cable we made that we hung out of a window to the floor below | to a network socket and resumed our pwnage. | | Man we were little arseholes! | sequoia wrote: | Is basic always this inscrutable? Not a great intro example. | zerkten wrote: | It's not the best general example, but I'm curious why it was | selected. I was wondering if it was selected as a nod to | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber given that he's from | Manchester and was involved with original BBC Micro. Many UK | folks would get the Joy Division reference, but they are a bit | more of a niche globally. | abrax3141 wrote: | Oh my gosh; this is a truly awesome hack! | themodelplumber wrote: | Wow, that's really impressive. The VirtualBeeb feature is kind of | mind-blowing too! I did not expect to see everything working in | interactive 3D on top of all the rest. | pmyteh wrote: | ...and the 'Elite' disc seems to be in the drive by default! | OnlyMortal wrote: | Right On Commander! | iasay wrote: | Yeah that is dangerously good. Now I shall be off to eBay to | buy a real one again! | wigster wrote: | it's lovely. the sound of the keys... | asciiresort wrote: | Based on the package.json, this seems like a reskinned Monaco | plus some bespoke extensions | talideon wrote: | BBC BASIC was/is the wonderful lovechild of BASIC and BCPL, and | was a joy to code in back in the day. Significant amounts of the | regular user applications that weren't CPU bound for RISC OS were | coded in it, and most of the rest were coded _with_ it, as it had | a built-in multipass assembler. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-15 23:00 UTC)