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BBC Micro

First, let’s review about where BBC BASIC gained its foothold…

• Emulator (browser-based)
• BBC Micro Users Guide (PDF)
• Learn to write games for the BBC Micro with Eben
• Books via 8-Bit Software
• Wikipedia

BBC BASIC

If you want to recreate the old school vibe, in the browser…

• BBC BASIC EDITOR (Browser)

Or if you want to leverage BBC BASIC as it has evolved to work directly on modern hardware…

• BBC BASIC: Richard Russell’s BBC BASIC portal.
• BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0: for Windows, Linux (86), MacOS, Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS. on GitHub
• BBC BASIC “Console Mode”
• QBASIC to BBC BASIC translator
• BBC BASIC (Z80)
• RISC OS Direct for Raspberry Pi: A RISC OS for Raspberry Pi image that has a particular emphasis on programming RISC OS and contains BBC BASIC 5/6 as well as many other programming languages pre-installed.
• BASIC Tips & Tricks
• Brandy: An interpreter for BBC Basic (or Basic V as it is sometimes referred) that runs under a variety of operating systems such as RISC OS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, reeBSD, Linux, Mac OSX, Amiga OS, DOS (extender) and Windows.
• Napoleon Brandy Basic V Interpreter: Napoleon Brandy is development of David Daniels Brandy basic, an interpreter for BBC Basic (or Basic V), This project can not claim ANSI C compliance as Brandy Basic did, but supports Graphics for the platforms implemented. OS currently supported are Win32 and DOS. Currently a preview release as it is functionally incomplete.
• Matrix Brandy BASIC VI: a multi-platform BBC BASIC VI interpreter with optional SDL graphics support, released under the GNU General Public License version 2+. It is a fork of David Daniels’ Brandy BASIC, base-lined at version 1.20.1 from his Sourceforge release, which hasn’t seen any updates since 2014.
• bbasic: An interpreter for a subset of BBC BASIC II.
• atom-language-bbcbasic: Atom grammar for the BBC Basic language.
• Retrocoding fun with BBC BASIC
• BBC Micro Screen Formats

Very Cool!!!!

• BBC Micro Bot: Welcome to 8-bit cloud. Send a tweet to @bbcmicrobot and it will run it on a 1980s 8-bit computer emulation! Source (GitHub)
• Fun with BBC Micro Bot

Additional Resources

• Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
• The Mighty Micro (1979)
• The Computer Programme (BBC2, 1982)
• RISC OS Programmer’s Reference - The Window Manager
• btracker: A chiptracker editor and player for the BBC Micro.