[HN Gopher] BBC Basic Editor
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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.
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| https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet-test2.html
| pvg wrote:
| Previous 50 comment discussion from Nov 2020 with some author
| talk:
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| 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.
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