Subj : BBS software basic code?
To   : Tiny
From : JoE DooM
Date : Fri Dec 17 2021 10:28:06

 > From what I remember it worked pretty good.  One thing I did wrong
 > was every message and every user was a seperate .seq file so it took
 > a while to find your username and password. ;)

haha. That wouldn't be possible on the BBCs. The disks have a limit of
30ish files I think.

And of all the things I'm really enjoying about the original BBC BASIC,
I'm finding the inability to have multi-line IF statements a real
frustration. It was added later, but as far as I can see, it wasn't on
the original 8bit micros.

Procedures and functions are amazing for their time, but damn an
IF...ENDIF would have made it practically perfect! hahaha


That said, the links on here have taken me down some interesting rabbit
holes, including the Commander X16 which I have as an emulator. I'd love
the hardware, especially as 8bitguy wants to have them available in the
US$50-100 region.

The Mega65 looks awesome, but the price tag will mean that with shipping
and import taxes, it'll probably be around NZ$2000 or more. And that's
just not good value for money IMO.


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