Now you've read the manual, time to start coding:
Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia...
The BBC Microcomputer User Guide
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only itself eclipsed by: "The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Microcomputer" (remastered) https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=17242
Oh man, it even has the front cover! Thank you!
While an amazing manual, nothing beats the original ZX Spectrum manual covers (and the manuals themselves are great too). Retro8bitcomputers [1] has an amazing selection of manuals to peruse. It's almost like we've forgotten the art of the user manual since the 80's.
[1] http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Downloads
Edit: typo
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#13Now you've read the manual, time to start coding: https://bbc.godbolt.org/ Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia...
That's amazing. Even forces me to use the proper UK keymap on my US keyboard!
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#14It's why I now run a software company. Reading this (and the Advanced User Guide) at 10 years old gave me a career.
Same here. The manual was an incredibly readable on-ramp from total basics (hah) all the way through to the FX & OSBYTE & 6502 references at the end. (And I was distraught when my ringbinding started to unravel on the Advanced User Guide)
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#15Thanks for sharing, the title should be dated with (2001).
(1981), surely.
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#16It's why I now run a software company. Reading this (and the Advanced User Guide) at 10 years old gave me a career.
Same :)
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#17The BBC made a drama, "Micro Men" (2009), about some of the behind-the-scenes drama behind the BBC Micro. As I recall, it doesn't explain the whole Fred, Jim and Sheila thing though.
Martin "Bilbo Baggins" Freeman is in it.
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#18Coming from the Apple II world as a kid I love chapter 43 where you can mix in 6502 code!
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#19And then there's the guy who communicated with an individual from the 16th century through his BBC Micro:
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15271
Lamentably, I don't see anything in the user guide about that feature ;-)
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#20Now you've read the manual, time to start coding: https://bbc.godbolt.org/ Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia...
That's amazing. Even forces me to use the proper UK keymap on my US keyboard!
Trying to remember where * lived!