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BBC Micro in your Browser

Source: https://bbcmic.ro

Did you know, that Acorn used BBC Micro machines to develop and emulate the to be coming ARM architecture in the good old days? Ha! But Wikipedia knew.

Acorn won the contract to design and produce this successful 8bit machine series in the 80's. And especially but not only in the UK the BBC Micro series became a huge success. Remember that?

I personally don't, because unfortunately I never owned one. But thanks to Dominik Pajak and Matt Godbolt I can write Basic programs for their emulator running in the browser.

When was the last time, you made Game of Live gliders occupy your screen? Long ago?

You find this and more than 1000(!) BBC Basic Demos in the mini IDE. A great place to tinker, a fine bookmark for those days, where one can just waste hours with hacking.

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