JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator(bbc.godbolt.org)

70 pointsby robeerob8 वर्ष पहले32 comments

bbc.godbolt.org

https://bbc.godbolt.org/

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FearNotDaniel8 वर्ष पहले

  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...

stuaxo8 वर्ष पहले

Press ESC or f12 is probably the BBC micro break button, though you may need OLD to get your program back.

mmjaa8 वर्ष पहले

Its the ESCAPE key.

nudgeee8 वर्ष पहले

  10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
  20 GOTO 10
  RUN

As seen in the BBC cult classic Look Around You intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU

timthorn8 वर्ष पहले

And that, of course, in homage to The Adventure Game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/adventuregame/trivia.shtml

ariehkovler8 वर्ष पहले

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.

stuaxo8 वर्ष पहले

Pod can pop

Was always funny / sad.

thorin8 वर्ष पहले

Frak worked first time, haven't seen that in a while. Very nice. There are loads of good text adventures on BBC and of course Elite but has anyone else got any good recommends?

delibes8 वर्ष पहले

I used to love the puzzle adventure things like Repton.

edit - and Castle Quest and Ravenskull.

thorin8 वर्ष पहले

I'd forgotten about Repton! Is Granny's Garden available freely - I seem to remember they are still trying to sell it!

zaf8 वर्ष पहले

Unfortunately Granny's Garden is not available freely due to publishers denying permission to do so.

dave-f8 वर्ष पहले

A few to try:

Citadel (Arcade adventure) Imogen (Cute Puzzler) Chuckie Egg (Ladders 'n levels romp) Skirmish (Joust) 3D Pool (Lovely 3D Pool simulation) Thrust (Space Physics fun) Firetrack (Shooter)

thorin8 वर्ष पहले

Don't worry, I already know about Chuckie Egg. I've lapped it a few times, BBC possible the best version? I never really got into Thrust but will give it another go.

Thanks

crtasm8 वर्ष पहले

Frak! I don't think I ever got past the second level as a kid, wonder how I'd fare after ~32years of platforming practice.

zem8 वर्ष पहले

want to see if i can complete twin kingdom valley now! never did get the last lousy point.

zellyn8 वर्ष पहले

Never got a chance to use a BBC, but I did read Peter Killworth's “How to write Adventure Games” at one point: http://www.mocagh.org/softguide/writeadventuregames.pdf

zaf8 वर्ष पहले

Have the hard copy, fantastic book.

cjallen888 वर्ष पहले

I did a couple weeks of ‘work experience’ about 15 years ago at school and I spent some time playing with one. They gave it to me at the end of the last day, I still have it in my attic... it’s probably the reason I work in software.

jacknews8 वर्ष पहले

Very nice, how do I run elite? I never had a disk system

edit: Ah got it, shift-break on BBC, fn-shift-right_command-F12 on macbook pro touchbar

sgt8 वर्ष पहले

I've been trying to do that but I can't seem to make it work. fn-shift-right cmd-f12... on MBP non touchbar

radiowave8 वर्ष पहले

Alternatively, at the prompt, type:

>CHAIN "LOAD"

apo8 वर्ष पहले

Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising:

= -> ↑

' -> :

: -> +

and so on. Why?

Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.

tom_8 वर्ष पहले

That's where the keys are, physically, on the real BBC Micro. Good shot of the keyboard on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#/media/File:BBC_Micr...

JdeBP8 वर्ष पहले

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.

tom_8 वर्ष पहले

I think the up arrow here is the poster's rendering of the Mode 7 representation of ^.

pjmlp8 वर्ष पहले

Pick up the subject of old 8 bit computers, games and browsers.

Get ready for the 20 KB JS shooter competition.

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=686

rwmj8 वर्ष पहले

Nice that

*.

which lists the directory also makes a disk-whirring noise. And Elite!

    *RUN"ELITE3"

(* = shift @ on my keyboard)

SoulMan8 वर्ष पहले

This is the first computer at school that I got my hands on

rayui8 वर्ष पहले

without a working "*" key, makes it pretty unusable!

teh_klev8 वर्ष पहले

The top menu has a drop down menu where you can choose between:

  Physical: '*' is next to Enter/Return

  Natural: '*' is shift-8

For me with a UK PC keyboard Physical is shift + ' (that key also has my @ character on it). It'd be where the star key would be on a BBC keyboard.

Natural is just shift + 8 (where the asterisk is normally located).

rwmj8 वर्ष पहले

On my UK laptop keyboard, Shift @ works.

thorin8 वर्ष पहले

Look at the keyboard options...