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I scored this for a freebie, I've never owned a BBC despite owning and using the 32 bit Acorns on a regular bases. I don't think it will keep me from the QL but it will be nice to try Elite and revisit Grannies Garden from my junior school days.





Sadly missing the z80 card for the Torch drive setup. There is a receipt online of someone elses and it cost nearly 1000 quid in the early 80s.

Interestingly the Raspberry Pi foundation have named there two versions of their upcoming computer Model A and Model B in light of wanting to regenerate the experiences of BBC and similar retro feel programming.

Also here is a pic from the Computer Museum of the second processors for the BBC, 6502 I believe and quite big

https://picasaweb.google.com/1087615291 ... uterMuseum

Mr_Navigator wrote:Interestingly the Raspberry Pi foundation have named there two versions of their upcoming computer Model A and Model B in light of wanting to regenerate the experiences of BBC and similar retro feel programming.

And there is an effort on to port RISC OS to Raspberry Pi too, so BASIC V (ie BBC Basic on steroids) will be available

They have ir running I think, but the peripherals are causing some problems at the mo (being USB).

Sparrowhawk wrote:

Mr_Navigator wrote: And there is an effort on to port RISC OS to Raspberry Pi too, so BASIC V (ie BBC Basic on steroids) will be available

So, can we also refer to SBASIC as "SuperBASIC on steroids" ?

Dilwyn