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Tag: BBC Micro
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Sinclair BASIC vs BBC BASIC – How to fit an entire devkit inside 64K
Just how did 8 bit computers like the ZX Spectrum or BBC Micro manage to cram an entire programming language into their tiny systems, and still have space for the user’s programs? Let’s compare two systems of the time – the low end ZX Spectrum that tried to cram as much computer as possible into…
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Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro
I have a go at making ChatGPT pretend to be a BBC Micro. It goes … not entirely wrong!
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BBC BASIC in RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi is really cool
Your Raspberry Pi can do more than emulate games consoles or be a really slow Linux desktop. Come into the alternate mirror universe where Raspberry Pis run more than Linux.
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Logo and Mindstorms – Learning How to Program
So how exactly do you learn programming? There’s more to it than just typing in code listings after all. Let’s find out using LOGO on my BBC!
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Bbc Micro Mega Upgrade
Upgrading my BBC Micro to use a Gotek floppy emulator, 1770 disk controller and a Raspberry Pi co-processor.
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How I Became a better Computer Science teacher
How writing code for a 40 year old computer made me a better computer science teacher.
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BBC Micro – Computer Literacy 1980s
A look at how the BBC Micro made the UK computer literate.