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The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Designed with an emphasis on education, it was notable for its ruggedness, expandability and the quality of its operating system.

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Designed with an emphasis on education, it was notable for its ruggedness, expandability and the quality of its operating system.

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BBC Basic: Cannot plot rectangle on screen

I recently got my hands on a BBC Micro (model B), and been playing around with it as a hobby project. I'm having some trouble with the graphics commands, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction... I have written the…
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Can't get code from bbc basic working

440 DEFPROCsave 450 phonenos=OPENUP("Phonenos") 470 PRINT 480 FOR j= 1 TO counter 490 PRINT#phonenos,contact{(j)}.name$,contact{(j)}.phone$,contact{(j)}.email$ 500 FOR f = 1 TO 10 510 …
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Which CRC algorithm is this (used by BBC micro tape filing system)?

Is there a well-known name for this CRC implementation? This code is in C, but this is the same CRC computation that's used for the tape filing system of the BBC micro, I think. But the BBC micro documentation doesn't specify the name of the…
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BBC Basic: Inserting a control character without occupying space in Mode 7

I'm using mode 7 ("Teletext mode") on my Beeb. I'd like to print a string of unbroken characters with an coloured text control character in the middle, as-per this mock-up: However, I can't work how this can be done. The control character needs to…
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Text Input not passing to X11 on Keypress in C

I've been attempting to hook up my BBC Micro to my Raspberry Pi and use it as a Keyboard over Serial TTY. I've found some great code on Github to forward Serial Keypresses to X11, but I can't seem to get it to work as I'd have hoped. I'm not great…
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How do I place a pixel on the screen in BBC BASIC?

I have attempted using scripts from other BASIC resources on the internet, but they yield an error message.
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How to pass a list to a subroutine in BASIC-256

I am having difficulty passing a list to a subroutine (embarrassment); I get a compiler error. I have followed the BASIC-256 documentation on arrays (http://doc.basic256.org/doku.php?id=en:arrays) and included the [] brackets in the subroutine…
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Demo programs for BBC Micro

I have a dim and distant memory of a set of demo programs for the BBC Micro series of home computers which showed off its graphics with images of lissajous figures, planets (spheres rendered with varying densities of dots), and so on. I've searched…
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BBC BASIC: Search for a string in a string

I have to write in BBC Basic at school (which I know nothing about) and have to write a program that searches for a string within a string.
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