Beginners Guide to Programming using BBC BASIC - Part 1 - Variables & Loops

Loved it Jason, thanks ! Yes you are great ! Looking forward to the next installment. Stay safe guys !

Super - thanks Jason and team! Stay awesome and look after yourselves.

OK, quotation marks are “speech marks” in BE, didn’t know this until now.

Thank you, looking forward to part 2.

Excellent Jason - Well done, and a very nice presentation...

Great video. Please make more.

Btw, i think the screen width is 1280, not 1000.

Great trip down memory lane

THIS IS GREAT!

I have a Acorn3000 Got the BASIC working after using an old mobile 3.7v phone battery for the CMOS. No operating system but I have a disc and struggling to get the disc drive to work. I might download the instruction book you suggested. If it`s like the spectrum there must be a load"" command or something.

the Lander game on risc os did it have sound? does any1 know? thanks.

I had the BBC B computer in the 80s, then when I had kids I used it to help them with their school work. It was great and they enjoyed it too.
Just saw a video about an emulator, so think I'll try and learn the codes again. That'll please the kids .. and their kids too.

88 to 93 my old friend i come back because yolol language reminds me of you

Thanks!

"Jason is awesome"

Hi, anybody knows what this instruction do:
70 CALL 35 : POP X

I want a BBC Micro now. Never grew up with them, so it’s not nostalgia. I just love how different and charming they are.

Wonderful. When I was at college in the 80´s I played around with BASIC as I had a ZX81 and then a 48k ZX Spectrum. My parents were aware that I liked science so computers were an obvious Christmas present for them. I knew a lad who one day showed me a program that he had written. He had put some of the basic notes of a piece of Mozart into a BBC computer and it sounded brilliant. He had even added lines on the screen that reflected the beautiful music. The higher the note the longer the line. I will never forget seeing that for as long as I live!! It was mind'blowing at the time. This was in Cornwall in 1985.

Just nit picking. The 6502 in the BBC Micro is clocked at 2Mhz

Thanks! This has been very helpful 😃

Just bought a BBC Model B!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this truly appreciated.

Try entering this single line for a weird result on the Beeb...
there are 46 of the 'L.1': , but you can use the cursor and Copy key (maybe mapped to End key by BeebEm) to speed entry.
1L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1:L.1

Thanks for this tutorial! I have a question: is there a way the get the char (or char code) at specified X,Y position on the screen using BBC BASIC in its original first version? Thanks

Great demo! Thanks.

[ for the posters lol/enjoyment ]

NEVER let anyone tell you you cannot do something!!!!! [ read on ;-) ]


I cut my teeth on BBC BASIC over my bothers shoulder when I was 13, just before C.S.E 'Computer Studies' was an 'Option' to us pre G.C.S.E. Students. I got a Grade '1' [ was NOT ALLOWED to do the G.C.E. Exam because they said 'he does not know the history...'.
Cut forward 3 years: Enter mentor 'Doctor Clark' [ a dude with a common interest and a PhD in 'Hardware Description Languages' ] and we started coding 'C' for DnD DM pre-gen sheets...

4 years later I'm writing Fruit Machine code on 68k in 'C', 3 years later I'm a UNIX Conformance Tester for UNISOFT [ My earliest net-swarf is my desktop wallpaper from '97 ], on contract to The Open Group, Intel and the DVB and DaSE consortium, [ Read Digital TV, US and EU ]. and SSL [ THE Intel CDSA 'white paper' testing ]

Sorry, I was here when the 'thumbs up' was exactly 286...

lol

10 listen to rick roll
20 goto 10

I just bought a Raspberry Pi 400 and I am going to use BBC BASIC on RISC OS. It looks so fun, specially the sounds. It will annoy my wife so much 😂😂😂

Man, the difference between mode 7 on this and a Super Nintendo is pretty wild.

Far superior build to the Pi400 which is the poorist design ever.. The BBC micro had excellent connectability professional header, ROM sockets, Proper structured language. No libraries to link in.I can go on and on. Python is a disaster compared with this.

Argh, takes me back...loved that you could mixed 6502 in BASIC ❤

My workplace, in its infancy, used one for record keeping. It's not working now, but 40 years later, I have the book. There are good tips - even for the Yabasic programming language I write in.

had a model B in the day, i still have it... Still to this day ive yet to find a keyboard as good.

Practicing on my Electron while my Beeb is in transit..👍