LightNews — News, ranked by scholars

The Oasis BBS

@theoasisbbs.bsky.social

U64 BBC BASIC 1.0.0 Brings Acorn's BASIC to the Ultimate 64
#U64BBCBASIC #BBCBASIC #Ultimate64 #Commodore64 #BBCMicro #RetroComputing #8BitComputing #MOS6502 #SID #RetroProgramming
theoasisbbs.com/u64-bbc-basi...

U64 BBC BASIC 1.0.0 Brings Acorn's BASIC to the Ultimate 64 - The Oasis BBS

U64 BBC BASIC 1.0.0 brings BBC BASIC 3.10, new graphics, 24 SID voices, and network tools to Ultimate 64 systems with firmware 3.15a.

theoasisbbs.com

October 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM

Xander Mol

@xahmol.bsky.social

U64 BBC BASIC 1.0.0 is out: the BBC Micro's BASIC 3.10 as a cartridge for the Ultimate 64, with a BBC-style MOS. BBC graphics modes and teletext, SID and sample sound, an REU RAM disk and networking.

github.com/xahmol/u64-bbcbasic

Video:
youtu.be/BChxLcacPqM

#C64 #Commodore64 #BBCMicro

October 23, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Zhu Industries

@zhuindustries.bsky.social

This time it's code. Reimagining the HUD program from James Camerons #Aliens (1986) in #BBCBasic.

bbcmic.ro#%7B%22v%22%3...

September 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM

bazzargh

@bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

@bit101 a version I made for the bbc micro a few years back. I do like that coding up optical illusions like this means you know for certain it's not what it appears to be... but you can't unsee it https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/109763774911592856

BBC Micro Bot :mastodon: (@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk)

Attached: 1 image I ran @bazzargh@hachyderm.io's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=78wUt #bbcbasic

mastodon.me.uk

May 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Xander Mol

@xahmol.bsky.social

More demos added to my exploration in BBC BASIC on Acorn Archimedes, using samples posted on Facebook by Eric Schraf.

#RetroComputing #AcornArchimedes #RiscOS #BBCBASIC

youtu.be/kPsJn2dJ_uQ?...

Acorn Archimedes BBC Basic: Schraf Graphical demos

YouTube video by I Dreamt In 8 Bits

youtu.be

June 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Xander Mol

@xahmol.bsky.social

Some experimenting in BBC BASIC on Acorn Archimedes, converting some examples found online made by Eric Schraf.

#RetroComputing #BBCBASIC #AcornArchimedes #RiscOS

https://github.com/xahmol/ArchBAS/blob/main/SchrafSrc

ArchBAS/SchrafSrc at main · xahmol/ArchBAS

Samples and experiments in BBC BASIC for Acorn Archimedes - xahmol/ArchBAS

github.com

June 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

www.bbcbasic.net/bbcbasic/z80...

R. T. Russell: BBC BASIC (Z80)

BBC BASIC (Z80): CP/M version

www.bbcbasic.net

February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

Mmm. Bug in *BYE command in BBCBASIC. Trying to quickly fix that before release.

December 14, 2024 at 3:26 PM

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

Flashback to May 2020 at the height of the Covid lockdowns in the UK. The source code had been recently open sourced and sitting around on my PC for a year or so. Bored out of my mind, I decided to have a crack at getting it running on my bare bones computer #Z80 #homebrew #bbcbasic...

BBC Basic for Z80 on the BSX - L Break Into Program, 0:1

One of the advantages of lockdown is that spare time is often in plentiful supply. I noted a few months ago that BBC Basic for Z80 by R.T.Russell is now open source, and available under a zlib license...

www.breakintoprogram.co.uk

November 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

If you look at the function draw_line in here (lines 265 to 398) it assumes that you have a function called Plot_Point which preserves BC, DE and HL, and takes the parameters L = X, H = Y. My implementation starts at line 198. That should do for you.