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10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN Ah, the memories. But I forgot how to break out of such a loop. Lucky there's a hard/soft reset option in the website menu...
Oh the feels. I had a ZX Spectrum at home so that made me one of the 'techie' kids in my school who could use the class BBC better than the teachers. It was my second experience with BASIC, and BBC BASIC was a little different to ZX Basic so I had to learn to adapt the syntax of my kiddie code. And the games! Anyone else play Podd? I still remember the first time I figured out you could make him explode.
Was always funny / sad.
Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising: = -> ↑ ' -> : : -> + and so on. Why? Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.
It's only surprising to those who do not know ASCII codes off by heart, from using the VDU statement. (-: The BBC Micro had what is called a "bit-paired" keyboard. It also had copy cursor keys and a reset key.