BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced

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  • nes-elite-beebasm

    Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

  • One of the books was an entire annotated disassembly of the BASIC interpreter, if memory serves. I vaguely remember there being some sort of kerfuffle about that.

    Another thing that one got: a printed circuit diagram of the machine.

    As for today: One can get get an entire annotated disassembly for Elite, including the version that used the Second Processor: https://www.bbcelite.com

  • SDL

    Simple Directmedia Layer

  • If that app ran in a 640x480 mode, memory accesses would be just as fast as the VGA applications 25 years ago, correct?

    I think there's a lot more going on than that. Here's SDL's current pixel access code:

    https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/video/SDL_su...

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  • cbmbasic

    cbmbasic, a portable version of Commodore's version of Microsoft BASIC 6502 as found on the Commodore 64

  • I'd love to see a comparison between this and https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic.

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