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The BBC Micro in my educationIt's no secret that the BBC Micro was one of the most popular and widespread computers in the U.K. Throughout the 1980's. It's no secret that the reason for its success lies squarely with the fact that Acorn won the tender process to provide the Acorn Proton as the sponsored computer for the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. Before it's launch, the Acorn Proton was re-badged as the BBC Microcomputer System from Acorn and was obviously launched with huge support from the U.K.'
S own British Broadcasting Corporation. My Early school yearsIn 1983 when I was 8 years old, my Junior school introduced 4 BBC Micro computers (1 for each year) that were to be shared between all the classes. These were the first computers I used and I was exposed to things such as LOGO, using a Turtle, Educational adventure games like 'Granny's Garden' and at lunchtimes when the weather was too bad to go outside, we played on games like A&F's Cylon Attack.It was clear to both my teachers and my family that I loved using the BBC Micro and as such, my parents bought one for my joint Birthday and Christmas present in late November that year (a few weeks early for my Birthday). They'd attended a few seminars at Debenhams of all places to see for themselves the differences between the computers available at the time.
The BBC Micro stood head and shoulders above the competition and so the choice was made. I got my BBC Micro, pictured below.As my BBC Micro only had a cassette interface and I got bored waiting for programs to load from cassette, I started learning to program the computer myself. Firstly, with BASIC, then I 'dabbled' with 6502 Assembly language but at 9 and 10 years old, I was probably a bit too young to really get to grips with that! My school kindly allowed me to take home any educational software they had available for me to use on evenings and weekends too and my parents bought programs like 'Number Puzzler', 'Early Learning' and 'Podd' which I had to use in order to earn 'game time' where I could play 'Yie Ar Kung Fu' and 'ELITE'. A balance which I hated at the time but in retrospect, did me good. Moving to Secondary SchoolAt the age of 11, I moved to the now demolished where they had a couple of computer rooms chock full of BBC Micro's that were available for the computer studies lessons and as support rooms for interactive educational lessons for subjects as wide and varied as Maths, French, German, Physics, Music and even PSE (Personal and Social Education).
By this time too, the school had a full Econet network and even the library had a computer in it. In three and a half years from my first experience of a computer, they had exploded into every aspect of my life. Throughout all my lessons at some point or another computers were used.Comprehensive and 6th FormMy years at in the late 80's and early 90's saw the evolution of the BBC Microcomputer from the Model B, through to the Acorn BBC Master and then the Acorn BBC Archimedes range of computers.
The BBC Micro team in 2008During the early 1980s, the BBC started what became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The project was initiated partly in response to an documentary series The Mighty Micro, in which of the UK's predicted the coming and its effect on the economy, industry, and lifestyle of the United Kingdom.The BBC wanted to base its project on a capable of performing various tasks which they could then demonstrate in the TV series. The list of topics included, sound and music, controlling external hardware,. It developed an ambitious specification for a BBC computer, and discussed the project with several companies including, Newbury Laboratories, and.The Acorn team had already been working on a successor to their existing microcomputer. Known as the Proton, it included better graphics and a faster 2 MHz. The machine was only at the design stage at the time, and the Acorn team, including and, had one week to build a working prototype from the sketched designs.
The team worked through the night to get a working Proton together to show the BBC. Not only was the Acorn Proton the only machine to match the BBC's specification, it also exceeded it in nearly every parameter. Keyboard of a Model B, one of two very similar designs used on the modelThe machine was released as the BBC Microcomputer on 1 December 1981, although production problems pushed delivery of the majority of the initial run into 1982. Nicknamed 'the Beeb', it was popular in the UK, especially in the educational market; about 80% of British schools had a BBC microcomputer,called the BBC Micro Model B 'a no-compromise computer that has many uses beyond self-instruction in computer technology'.
It called the 'the most innovative feature' of the computer, and concluded that 'although some other British microcomputers offer more features for a given price, none of them surpass the BBC. In terms of versatility and expansion capability'. As with 's and 's, both released later in 1982, demand greatly exceeded supply.
For some months, there were long delays before customers received the machines they had ordered.Efforts were made to market the machine in the United States and West Germany. By October 1983, the US operation reported that American schools had placed orders with it totalling $21 million. In October 1984, while preparing a major expansion of its US dealer network, Acorn claimed sales of 85 per cent of the computers in British schools, and delivery of 40,000 machines per month.
That December, Acorn stated its intention to become the market leader in US educational computing. Considered the inclusion of to be of prime importance to teachers. The operation resulted in advertisements by at least one dealer in Interface Age magazine, but ultimately the attempt failed. The success of the machine in the UK was due largely to its acceptance as an 'educational' computer – UK schools used BBC Micros to teach, information technology skills and a generation of games programmers.
Acorn became more known for its model B computer than for its other products. Some Commonwealth countries, including, started their own computer literacy programs around 1987 and used the BBC Micro, a clone of which was produced by Semiconductor Complex Limited and named the SCL Unicorn.The Model A and the Model B were initially priced at £235 and £335 respectively, but increased almost immediately to £299 and £399 due to higher costs. The Model B price of nearly £400 was roughly £1200 (€1393) in 2011 prices. Acorn anticipated the total sales to be around 12,000 units, but eventually more than 1.5 million BBC Micros were sold.The cost of the BBC Models was high compared to competitors such as the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64, and from 1983 on Acorn attempted to counter this by producing a simplified but largely compatible version intended for game playing, the 32K. Description Hardware features: Models A and B. Rear of the BBC Micro.
Ports from left to right:, cassette, analogue in and.A key feature of the design was the high-performance RAM it was equipped with. A common design note in of the era was to run the RAM at twice the clock rate as the CPU. This allowed a separate to access memory while the CPU was busy processing the last data it received. In this way, the CPU and graphics driver could share access to RAM through careful timing.
This technique was used, for example, on the and the early models.The BBC machine, however, was designed to run at the faster CPU speed, 2, double that of these earlier machines. In this case, would normally be an issue as there would not be enough time for the CPU to access the memory during the period when the video hardware was idle. Some machines of the era made do with the contention and the inherent performance hit, as was the case for the, and to a lesser extent the. Others, like the systems, used entirely separate pools of memory for the CPU and video, which had the disadvantage of slowing access between the two.In contrast, the Acorn design specified memory able to allow the CPU and video system to access the bus without interfering with each other. To do so, the RAM would have to be able to allow four million access cycles per second. At that time, was the only company considering a that ran at that speed, the HM4816. To equip the prototype machine, the only four 4816s in the country were hand-carried by the Hitachi representative to Acorn.The Model A shipped with 16 of user RAM, while the Model B had 32 KB.
Extra ROMs could be fitted (four on the PCB or sixteen with expansion hardware) and accessed via.The machines included three video ports, one with an sending out a signal in the band, another sending suitable for connection to common of the era, and a separate port. The separate RGB video out socket was originally an engineering requirement from the BBC to allow the machine to directly output a broadcast quality signal for use within television programming - it can clearly be seen being used on episodes of and.The machine included a number of interfaces: and printer ports; an 8-bit general purpose digital I/O port; a port offering four inputs, a light pen input, and switch inputs; and an expansion connector (the '1 MHz bus') that enabled other hardware to be connected. An network interface and a disk drive interface were available as options. All motherboards had space for the electronic components, but Econet was rarely fitted.Additionally, an Acorn proprietary interface named the ' allowed a second processor to be added. Three models of second processor were offered by Acorn, based on the, and CPUs. The Tube was later used in third-party add-ons, including a board and from Torch that allowed the BBC machine to run programs.Separate pages, each with a codename, were used to control the access to the I/O: CodenamePageDescriptionFRED0xFC00 – 0xFCFF1 MHz busJIM0xFD00 – 0xFDFF1 MHz bus / paged RAMSHEILA0xFE00 – 0xFEFFMapped I/O for resident hardware – video, cassette, sound, interruptsThe Tube interface allowed Acorn to use BBC Micros with CPUs as software development machines when creating the.
This resulted in the ARM development kit for the BBC Micro in 1986, priced at around £4000. From 2006 a kit with an CPU running at 64 MHz, with as much as 64 MB of RAM, was released for the BBC Micro and Master, using the Tube interface to upgrade the old 8-bit micros into 32-bit RISC machines. Among the software that operated on the Tube were an enhanced version of the video game and a system that required a and a 3-dimensional joystick named a 'Bitstik'.The Model A and the Model B were built on the same (PCB) and a Model A could be upgraded to a Model B without too much difficulty. Users wishing to operate Model B software needed only to add the extra RAM and the user/printer VIA (which many games used for timers) and snip a link, a task that could be achieved without soldering. To do a full upgrade with all the external ports did, however, require soldering the connectors to the motherboard.
The original machines shipped with 'OS 0.1', with later updates advertised in magazines, supplied as a clip-in integrated circuit, with the last official version being 'OS 1.2'. Variations in the Acorn OS exist as a result of home-made projects and modified machines can still be bought on internet auction sites such as, as of 2011.The BBC Model A was phased out of production with the introduction of the, with chairman Chris Curry stating at the time that Acorn 'would no longer promote it' (the Model A). Early BBC Micros used at the insistence of the BBC's engineering specification, but these very hot-running PSUs were soon replaced in production by units. An apparent oversight in the manufacturing process resulted in a significant number of Model Bs producing a constant buzzing noise from the built-in speaker.
This fault could be rectified partly by a resistor across two pads.There were five developments of the main BBC micro circuit board that addressed various issues through the models production, from 'Issue 1' through to 'Issue 7' with variants 5 and 6 not being released. The 1985 'BBC Microcomputer Service Manual' from Acorn documented the details of the technical changes.Per comments in their '32K Ram Board Manual':Early issue BBCs (Issue 3 circuit boards and before) are notorious for out of specification timings. If problems occur with this sort of machine, the problem can generally be cured by the use of either a Rockwell 6502A CPU chip, or by replacing IC14 (a 74LS245) with either another 74LS245 or the faster 74ALS245. Export models.
Advert in Interface Age magazine, November 1983, ' The BBC Microcomputer Is Here! 'Two export models were developed: one for the US, with Econet and speech hardware as standard; the other for.
Both were fitted with as required by the respective countries, and they were still based on the Intel 8271 floppy drive controller. From June 1983 the name was always spelled out completely – 'British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System' – to avoid confusion with in international markets.US models included the BASIC III ROM chip, modified to accept the American spelling of COLOR, but the height of the graphics display was reduced to 200 to suit TVs, severely affecting applications written for British computers.
After the failed US marketing campaign the unwanted machines were for the British market and sold, resulting in a third 'UK export' variant. Side product In October 1984, the range of machines was announced, based primarily on BBC hardware.Hardware features B+64 and B+128 Acorn introduced the Model B+ in mid-1985, increasing the total RAM to 64 KB but this had modest market effect. The extra RAM in the Model B+ BBC Micro was assigned as two blocks, a block of 20 KB dedicated solely for screen display (so-called ' RAM) and a block of 12 KB of 'special' RAM. The B+128 came with an additional 64 KB (4 × 16 KB 'Sideways' RAM banks) to give a total RAM of 128 KB.The new B+ was incapable of operating some original BBC B programs and games, such as, for example, the very popular Castle Quest. A particular problem was the replacement of the controller with the – not only was the new controller mapped to different addresses, it was fundamentally incompatible and the 8271 emulators that existed were necessarily imperfect for all but basic operation.
Software that used techniques involving direct access to the controller, simply would not operate on the new system. Acorn attempted to alleviate this, starting with version 2.20 of the 1770 DFS, via an 8271-backward- compatible Ctrl+Z+Break option.There was also a long-running problem late in the B/B+'s commercial life infamous amongst B+ owners, when Superior Software released, which refused to operate on the B+. A series of unsuccessful replacements were issued before one compatible with both was finally released.BBC Master. The unusual game screen used two at once, to show both detail and colour.The BBC Micro platform amassed a large software base of both games and educational programs for its two main uses as a home and educational computer. Notable examples of each include the original release of. And some applications were supplied on ROM chips to be installed on the motherboard.
These loaded instantly and left the RAM free for programs or documents.Although appropriate content was little-supported by television broadcasters, could be downloaded via the optional and the third-party teletext adaptors that emerged.The built-in operating system, provided an extensive to interface with all standard peripherals, ROM-based software and the screen. Features private to some versions of BASIC, like, cursor-based editing, sound queues and, were placed in the MOS ROM and made available to any application.
BBC BASIC itself, being in a separate ROM, could be replaced with any equivalent language.BASIC, other languages and utility ROM chips resided in any of four 16 KB paged ROM sockets, with OS support for sixteen sockets via expansion hardware. The five (total) sockets were located partially obscured under the keyboard, with the leftmost socket hard-wired for the OS.
While the original usage for the perforated panel on the left of the keyboard was for a Serial ROM or Speech ROM, a socket or edgecard connector could be installed in that location instead. The socket could be connected to one of the empty Sideways/PagedROM sockets via a header cable.
The paged ROM system was essentially modular. A language-independent system of star commands, prefixed with an asterisk, provided the ability to select a language (for example.BASIC,.PASCAL), a filing system (.TAPE,.DISC), change settings (.FX,.OPT) or carry out ROM-supplied tasks (.COPY,.BACKUP) from the command line.
The MOS recognised a handful of built-in commands, and polled the paged ROMs in descending order for service otherwise; if none of them claimed the command then the OS returned a Bad command error. Connecting an external EPROM programmer, one could write extensive programs, copy to programmable ROM (PROM) or EPROM, then invoke them without taxing user memory. Main article:Not all ROMs offered star commands (ROMs containing data files, for instance), but any ROM could ' into certain vectors to enhance the system's functionality. Often the ROM was a for combined with a filing system, starting with Acorn's 1982 whose API became the de facto standard for floppy disc access. The Acorn Graphics Extension ROM (GXR) expanded the VDU routines to draw geometric shapes, flood fills and sprites.
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During 1985 designed and marketed a Basic Extension ROM, introducing statements such as WHILE, ENDWHILE, CASE, WHEN, OTHERWISE, and ENDCASE, as well as direct mode commands including VERIFY.Acorn strongly discouraged programmers from directly accessing the system variables and hardware, favouring official. This was ostensibly to make sure programs kept working when migrated to coprocessors that utilised the interface, but it also made BBC Micro software more portable across the Acorn range. Whereas untrappable were commonly used by other computers to reach the system elements, programs in either machine code or BBC BASIC would instead pass parameters to an operating system routine.
In this way the MOS could translate the request for the local machine or send it across the Tube interface, as direct access was impossible from the coprocessor. Published programs largely conformed to the API except for games, which routinely engaged with the hardware for greater speed, and thus required a particular Acorn model.As the early BBC Micros had ample I/O allowing machines to be interconnected, and as many schools and universities employed the machines in networks, numerous networked multiplayer games were created. With the exception of a tank game, few became popular, in no small measure due to the limited number of machines aggregated in one place. A relatively late but well documented example can be found in a dissertation based on a ringed interconnect. Peripherals In line with its ethos of expandability Acorn produced its own range of peripherals for the BBC Micro, including:.
Joysticks. Tape recorder. Floppy drive interface upgrade. Floppy drives (single and double). Econet networking upgrade. Winchester disk system.
Speech synthesiser. Music 500 synthesiser. BBC. BBC Buggy.Other manufactures such as also produced an abundance of add-on hardware, some the most common being:.
RGB monitors. Printers, plotters. ModemsBBC BASIC built-in programming language. BASIC prompt after switch-on or hard reset.The built-in ROM-resident BBC BASIC programming language realised the system's educational emphasis and was key to its success; not only was it the most comprehensive BASIC compared to other contemporary implementations but it ran very efficiently and was therefore fast.
Advanced programs could be written without resorting to or (necessary with many competing computers). Should one want or need to do some assembly programming, BBC BASIC featured a built-in assembler that allowed a very easy mixture of BBC BASIC and assembler for whatever processor BBC BASIC was operating on.When the BBC Micro was released, many competing home computers used, or variants typically designed to resemble it.
Compared to Microsoft BASIC, BBC BASIC featured IF.THEN.ELSE, REPEAT.UNTIL, named procedures and functions, but retained and for compatibility. It also supported high-resolution graphics, four-channel sound, pointer-based memory access (borrowed from ) and rudimentary macro assembly. Long variable names were accepted and distinguished completely, not just by the first two characters. Other languages Acorn had made a point of not just supporting BBC Basic but a number of contemporary languages, some of which were supplied as ROM chips to fit the spare 'Sideways-ROM' sockets on the motherboard. Other languages were supplied on tape or disk based.Programming Languages from Acorn:.
ISO Pascal (2× 16 KB ROM + floppy disk). S-Pascal (disk or tape). BCPL (ROM plus further optional disk based modules). Forth (16 KB ROM). LISP (disk,tape or ROM). Logo (2× 16 KB ROM).
Turtle Graphics (disk or tape). Micro-PROLOG (16 KB ROM).
COMAL (16 KB ROM). Microfocus CIS COBOL (running under CP/M on floppy disks via the Z80 second processor)Successor machines. Main article:Acorn produced their own (RISC) during 1985, the ARM1. Furber composed a reference model of the processor on the BBC Micro with 808 lines of BASIC, and ARM Holdings retains copies of the code for intellectual property purposes. The first prototype ARM platforms, the ARM Evaluation System and the A500 workstation, functioned as second processors attached to the BBC Micro's Tube interface. Acorn staff developed the A500's operating system in situ through the Tube until, one by one, the on-board I/O ports were enabled and the A500 ran as a stand-alone computer. With an upgraded processor this was eventually released during 1987 as four models in the Archimedes series, the lower-specified two models (512 KB and 1 MB) continuing the BBC Microcomputer brand with the distinctive red function keys.
Although the Archimedes ultimately was not a major success, the ARM family of processors has become the dominant processor architecture in mobile embedded consumer devices, particularly mobile telephones.Acorn's last BBC-related model, the BBC A3000, was released in 1989. It was essentially a 1 MB Archimedes back in a single case.Retro computing scene. Acorn co-founder playing a game on a Master in 2012As of 2018, thanks to its ready expandability and I/O functions, there are still numbers of BBC Micros in use, and a community of dedicated users finding new tasks for the old hardware.
They still survive in a few interactive displays in museums across the United Kingdom, and the observatory was reported to be still using a BBC Micro to steer its 42 ft radio telescope during 2004. The Archimedes came with 65Arthur, an which stated 'lets many programs for the BBC Micro run'; other emulators exist for many operating systems. Clockwise from top left:, David Allen, David Kitson, Chris Turner, and at the BBC Micro 30th anniversary in 2012In March 2008, the creators of the BBC Micro met at the in London.
There was to be an exhibition about the computer and its legacy during 2009.The UK at uses BBC Micros as part of a scheme to educate school children about computer programming.In March 2012, the BBC and Acorn teams responsible for the BBC Micro and Computer Literacy Project met for a 30th anniversary party, entitled 'Beeb@30'. This was held at 's offices in Cambridge and was co-hosted by the. Continued development and support Long after the 'venerable old Beeb' was superseded, additional hardware and software has been developed. Such developments have included Sprow's 1999 utility and a for the. There are also a number of websites still supporting both hardware and software development for the BBC micros and Acorn in general.
Specifications (Model A to Model B+128) Model AModel BModel B+64Model B+128at 26512A at 2 MHz16 KB32 KB64 KB composed of 32 KB standard memory, 20 KB video ( ) memory and 12 KB extended ( special Sideways) memory.128 KB composed of 32 KB standard memory, 20 KB video ( Shadow) memory and 76 KB extended ( Sideways) memory.32 KB of ROM composed of a 16 KB (Machine Operating System) chip, and 16 KB read-only paged space defaulting to the chip. Four paged 16 KB ROM sockets standard, expandable to 16.48 KB of ROM composed of 16 KB MOS, 16 KB, and 16 KB read-only paged space defaulting to the BBC BASIC.Full-travel keyboard with a top row of ten red-orange ƒ0–ƒ9. These generated when pressed with CTRL or SHIFT, and could be programmed with keyboard macros. The arrow keys and BREAK could also serve as function keys. Links on the keyboard PCB allowed users to select the behaviour of Shift+Break, and Display Mode on Power-up/Break.
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Only the Best BBC Micro Games / BBC Games from the pastOnly the Best BBC Micro GamesWelcome to 'Only the Best BBC Micro Games'. Only the best is a BBC Games website dedicated to restoring the memories of our time spent with the classic and wonderful BBC Microcomputer.Rather than list every game released for the BBC, which has already been done by a couple of other sites, this website exists to fondly remember the very best of the best. You know - like the games we spent so many hours on trying to get past that pesky pirate, or collecting the myriad of multi-coloured keys in Citadel, or being Commander Stryker on one last mission to save the World. Those types of games!This site is dedicated to capturing and retaining the spirit of the eightes microcomputing revolution, the enjoyment people experienced playing games on them, and to honour the greatest 8-bit microcomputer of them all: The BBC Micro.Note: This is an archive site that is no longer maintained.Contents Want to get the games to play on your PC? Click for a quick, three-step guide.Play games on the BBC Micro right in your browser window. Click to visit the JS Beeb Website.Some of the many games in the Archive: New: Information onAnd lots more in the section.Classic BBC Micro Games.
The BBC Micro team in 2008During the early 1980s, the BBC started what became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The project was initiated partly in response to an documentary series The Mighty Micro, in which of the UK's predicted the coming and its effect on the economy, industry, and lifestyle of the United Kingdom.The BBC wanted to base its project on a capable of performing various tasks which they could then demonstrate in the TV series.
The list of topics included, sound and music, controlling external hardware,. It developed an ambitious specification for a BBC computer, and discussed the project with several companies including, Newbury Laboratories, and.The Acorn team had already been working on a successor to their existing microcomputer.
Known as the Proton, it included better graphics and a faster 2 MHz. The machine was only at the design stage at the time, and the Acorn team, including and, had one week to build a working prototype from the sketched designs. The team worked through the night to get a working Proton together to show the BBC. Not only was the Acorn Proton the only machine to match the BBC's specification, it also exceeded it in nearly every parameter. Keyboard of a Model B, one of two very similar designs used on the modelThe machine was released as the BBC Microcomputer on 1 December 1981, although production problems pushed delivery of the majority of the initial run into 1982.
Nicknamed 'the Beeb', it was popular in the UK, especially in the educational market; about 80% of British schools had a BBC microcomputer,called the BBC Micro Model B 'a no-compromise computer that has many uses beyond self-instruction in computer technology'. It called the 'the most innovative feature' of the computer, and concluded that 'although some other British microcomputers offer more features for a given price, none of them surpass the BBC. In terms of versatility and expansion capability'. As with 's and 's, both released later in 1982, demand greatly exceeded supply. For some months, there were long delays before customers received the machines they had ordered.Efforts were made to market the machine in the United States and West Germany. By October 1983, the US operation reported that American schools had placed orders with it totalling $21 million. In October 1984, while preparing a major expansion of its US dealer network, Acorn claimed sales of 85 per cent of the computers in British schools, and delivery of 40,000 machines per month.
That December, Acorn stated its intention to become the market leader in US educational computing. Considered the inclusion of to be of prime importance to teachers. The operation resulted in advertisements by at least one dealer in Interface Age magazine, but ultimately the attempt failed. The success of the machine in the UK was due largely to its acceptance as an 'educational' computer – UK schools used BBC Micros to teach, information technology skills and a generation of games programmers. Acorn became more known for its model B computer than for its other products. Some Commonwealth countries, including, started their own computer literacy programs around 1987 and used the BBC Micro, a clone of which was produced by Semiconductor Complex Limited and named the SCL Unicorn.The Model A and the Model B were initially priced at £235 and £335 respectively, but increased almost immediately to £299 and £399 due to higher costs.
The Model B price of nearly £400 was roughly £1200 (€1393) in 2011 prices. Acorn anticipated the total sales to be around 12,000 units, but eventually more than 1.5 million BBC Micros were sold.The cost of the BBC Models was high compared to competitors such as the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64, and from 1983 on Acorn attempted to counter this by producing a simplified but largely compatible version intended for game playing, the 32K. Description Hardware features: Models A and B. Rear of the BBC Micro. Ports from left to right:, cassette, analogue in and.A key feature of the design was the high-performance RAM it was equipped with. A common design note in of the era was to run the RAM at twice the clock rate as the CPU. This allowed a separate to access memory while the CPU was busy processing the last data it received.
In this way, the CPU and graphics driver could share access to RAM through careful timing. This technique was used, for example, on the and the early models.The BBC machine, however, was designed to run at the faster CPU speed, 2, double that of these earlier machines. In this case, would normally be an issue as there would not be enough time for the CPU to access the memory during the period when the video hardware was idle.
Some machines of the era made do with the contention and the inherent performance hit, as was the case for the, and to a lesser extent the. Others, like the systems, used entirely separate pools of memory for the CPU and video, which had the disadvantage of slowing access between the two.In contrast, the Acorn design specified memory able to allow the CPU and video system to access the bus without interfering with each other. To do so, the RAM would have to be able to allow four million access cycles per second. At that time, was the only company considering a that ran at that speed, the HM4816. To equip the prototype machine, the only four 4816s in the country were hand-carried by the Hitachi representative to Acorn.The Model A shipped with 16 of user RAM, while the Model B had 32 KB. Extra ROMs could be fitted (four on the PCB or sixteen with expansion hardware) and accessed via.The machines included three video ports, one with an sending out a signal in the band, another sending suitable for connection to common of the era, and a separate port.
The separate RGB video out socket was originally an engineering requirement from the BBC to allow the machine to directly output a broadcast quality signal for use within television programming - it can clearly be seen being used on episodes of and.The machine included a number of interfaces: and printer ports; an 8-bit general purpose digital I/O port; a port offering four inputs, a light pen input, and switch inputs; and an expansion connector (the '1 MHz bus') that enabled other hardware to be connected. An network interface and a disk drive interface were available as options. All motherboards had space for the electronic components, but Econet was rarely fitted.Additionally, an Acorn proprietary interface named the ' allowed a second processor to be added. Three models of second processor were offered by Acorn, based on the, and CPUs.
The Tube was later used in third-party add-ons, including a board and from Torch that allowed the BBC machine to run programs.Separate pages, each with a codename, were used to control the access to the I/O: CodenamePageDescriptionFRED0xFC00 – 0xFCFF1 MHz busJIM0xFD00 – 0xFDFF1 MHz bus / paged RAMSHEILA0xFE00 – 0xFEFFMapped I/O for resident hardware – video, cassette, sound, interruptsThe Tube interface allowed Acorn to use BBC Micros with CPUs as software development machines when creating the. This resulted in the ARM development kit for the BBC Micro in 1986, priced at around £4000. From 2006 a kit with an CPU running at 64 MHz, with as much as 64 MB of RAM, was released for the BBC Micro and Master, using the Tube interface to upgrade the old 8-bit micros into 32-bit RISC machines.
Among the software that operated on the Tube were an enhanced version of the video game and a system that required a and a 3-dimensional joystick named a 'Bitstik'.The Model A and the Model B were built on the same (PCB) and a Model A could be upgraded to a Model B without too much difficulty. Users wishing to operate Model B software needed only to add the extra RAM and the user/printer VIA (which many games used for timers) and snip a link, a task that could be achieved without soldering. To do a full upgrade with all the external ports did, however, require soldering the connectors to the motherboard. The original machines shipped with 'OS 0.1', with later updates advertised in magazines, supplied as a clip-in integrated circuit, with the last official version being 'OS 1.2'.
Variations in the Acorn OS exist as a result of home-made projects and modified machines can still be bought on internet auction sites such as, as of 2011.The BBC Model A was phased out of production with the introduction of the, with chairman Chris Curry stating at the time that Acorn 'would no longer promote it' (the Model A). Early BBC Micros used at the insistence of the BBC's engineering specification, but these very hot-running PSUs were soon replaced in production by units.
An apparent oversight in the manufacturing process resulted in a significant number of Model Bs producing a constant buzzing noise from the built-in speaker. This fault could be rectified partly by a resistor across two pads.There were five developments of the main BBC micro circuit board that addressed various issues through the models production, from 'Issue 1' through to 'Issue 7' with variants 5 and 6 not being released. The 1985 'BBC Microcomputer Service Manual' from Acorn documented the details of the technical changes.Per comments in their '32K Ram Board Manual':Early issue BBCs (Issue 3 circuit boards and before) are notorious for out of specification timings.
If problems occur with this sort of machine, the problem can generally be cured by the use of either a Rockwell 6502A CPU chip, or by replacing IC14 (a 74LS245) with either another 74LS245 or the faster 74ALS245. Export models. Advert in Interface Age magazine, November 1983, ' The BBC Microcomputer Is Here! 'Two export models were developed: one for the US, with Econet and speech hardware as standard; the other for. Both were fitted with as required by the respective countries, and they were still based on the Intel 8271 floppy drive controller.
From June 1983 the name was always spelled out completely – 'British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System' – to avoid confusion with in international markets.US models included the BASIC III ROM chip, modified to accept the American spelling of COLOR, but the height of the graphics display was reduced to 200 to suit TVs, severely affecting applications written for British computers. After the failed US marketing campaign the unwanted machines were for the British market and sold, resulting in a third 'UK export' variant. Side product In October 1984, the range of machines was announced, based primarily on BBC hardware.Hardware features B+64 and B+128 Acorn introduced the Model B+ in mid-1985, increasing the total RAM to 64 KB but this had modest market effect. The extra RAM in the Model B+ BBC Micro was assigned as two blocks, a block of 20 KB dedicated solely for screen display (so-called ' RAM) and a block of 12 KB of 'special' RAM. The B+128 came with an additional 64 KB (4 × 16 KB 'Sideways' RAM banks) to give a total RAM of 128 KB.The new B+ was incapable of operating some original BBC B programs and games, such as, for example, the very popular Castle Quest.
A particular problem was the replacement of the controller with the – not only was the new controller mapped to different addresses, it was fundamentally incompatible and the 8271 emulators that existed were necessarily imperfect for all but basic operation. Software that used techniques involving direct access to the controller, simply would not operate on the new system. Acorn attempted to alleviate this, starting with version 2.20 of the 1770 DFS, via an 8271-backward- compatible Ctrl+Z+Break option.There was also a long-running problem late in the B/B+'s commercial life infamous amongst B+ owners, when Superior Software released, which refused to operate on the B+.
A series of unsuccessful replacements were issued before one compatible with both was finally released.BBC Master. The unusual game screen used two at once, to show both detail and colour.The BBC Micro platform amassed a large software base of both games and educational programs for its two main uses as a home and educational computer. Notable examples of each include the original release of. And some applications were supplied on ROM chips to be installed on the motherboard.
These loaded instantly and left the RAM free for programs or documents.Although appropriate content was little-supported by television broadcasters, could be downloaded via the optional and the third-party teletext adaptors that emerged.The built-in operating system, provided an extensive to interface with all standard peripherals, ROM-based software and the screen. Features private to some versions of BASIC, like, cursor-based editing, sound queues and, were placed in the MOS ROM and made available to any application. BBC BASIC itself, being in a separate ROM, could be replaced with any equivalent language.BASIC, other languages and utility ROM chips resided in any of four 16 KB paged ROM sockets, with OS support for sixteen sockets via expansion hardware. The five (total) sockets were located partially obscured under the keyboard, with the leftmost socket hard-wired for the OS. While the original usage for the perforated panel on the left of the keyboard was for a Serial ROM or Speech ROM, a socket or edgecard connector could be installed in that location instead.
The socket could be connected to one of the empty Sideways/PagedROM sockets via a header cable. The paged ROM system was essentially modular. A language-independent system of star commands, prefixed with an asterisk, provided the ability to select a language (for example.BASIC,.PASCAL), a filing system (.TAPE,.DISC), change settings (.FX,.OPT) or carry out ROM-supplied tasks (.COPY,.BACKUP) from the command line. The MOS recognised a handful of built-in commands, and polled the paged ROMs in descending order for service otherwise; if none of them claimed the command then the OS returned a Bad command error. Connecting an external EPROM programmer, one could write extensive programs, copy to programmable ROM (PROM) or EPROM, then invoke them without taxing user memory. Main article:Not all ROMs offered star commands (ROMs containing data files, for instance), but any ROM could ' into certain vectors to enhance the system's functionality. Often the ROM was a for combined with a filing system, starting with Acorn's 1982 whose API became the de facto standard for floppy disc access.
The Acorn Graphics Extension ROM (GXR) expanded the VDU routines to draw geometric shapes, flood fills and sprites. During 1985 designed and marketed a Basic Extension ROM, introducing statements such as WHILE, ENDWHILE, CASE, WHEN, OTHERWISE, and ENDCASE, as well as direct mode commands including VERIFY.Acorn strongly discouraged programmers from directly accessing the system variables and hardware, favouring official. This was ostensibly to make sure programs kept working when migrated to coprocessors that utilised the interface, but it also made BBC Micro software more portable across the Acorn range. Whereas untrappable were commonly used by other computers to reach the system elements, programs in either machine code or BBC BASIC would instead pass parameters to an operating system routine.
In this way the MOS could translate the request for the local machine or send it across the Tube interface, as direct access was impossible from the coprocessor. Published programs largely conformed to the API except for games, which routinely engaged with the hardware for greater speed, and thus required a particular Acorn model.As the early BBC Micros had ample I/O allowing machines to be interconnected, and as many schools and universities employed the machines in networks, numerous networked multiplayer games were created.
With the exception of a tank game, few became popular, in no small measure due to the limited number of machines aggregated in one place. A relatively late but well documented example can be found in a dissertation based on a ringed interconnect. Peripherals In line with its ethos of expandability Acorn produced its own range of peripherals for the BBC Micro, including:. Joysticks. Tape recorder.
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Floppy drive interface upgrade. Floppy drives (single and double). Econet networking upgrade.
Winchester disk system. Speech synthesiser. Music 500 synthesiser. BBC.
BBC Buggy.Other manufactures such as also produced an abundance of add-on hardware, some the most common being:. RGB monitors. Printers, plotters. ModemsBBC BASIC built-in programming language. BASIC prompt after switch-on or hard reset.The built-in ROM-resident BBC BASIC programming language realised the system's educational emphasis and was key to its success; not only was it the most comprehensive BASIC compared to other contemporary implementations but it ran very efficiently and was therefore fast. Advanced programs could be written without resorting to or (necessary with many competing computers). Should one want or need to do some assembly programming, BBC BASIC featured a built-in assembler that allowed a very easy mixture of BBC BASIC and assembler for whatever processor BBC BASIC was operating on.When the BBC Micro was released, many competing home computers used, or variants typically designed to resemble it.
Compared to Microsoft BASIC, BBC BASIC featured IF.THEN.ELSE, REPEAT.UNTIL, named procedures and functions, but retained and for compatibility. It also supported high-resolution graphics, four-channel sound, pointer-based memory access (borrowed from ) and rudimentary macro assembly. Long variable names were accepted and distinguished completely, not just by the first two characters. Other languages Acorn had made a point of not just supporting BBC Basic but a number of contemporary languages, some of which were supplied as ROM chips to fit the spare 'Sideways-ROM' sockets on the motherboard. Other languages were supplied on tape or disk based.Programming Languages from Acorn:.
ISO Pascal (2× 16 KB ROM + floppy disk). S-Pascal (disk or tape). BCPL (ROM plus further optional disk based modules). Forth (16 KB ROM). LISP (disk,tape or ROM).
Logo (2× 16 KB ROM). Turtle Graphics (disk or tape). Micro-PROLOG (16 KB ROM). COMAL (16 KB ROM). Microfocus CIS COBOL (running under CP/M on floppy disks via the Z80 second processor)Successor machines.
Main article:Acorn produced their own (RISC) during 1985, the ARM1. Furber composed a reference model of the processor on the BBC Micro with 808 lines of BASIC, and ARM Holdings retains copies of the code for intellectual property purposes. The first prototype ARM platforms, the ARM Evaluation System and the A500 workstation, functioned as second processors attached to the BBC Micro's Tube interface. Acorn staff developed the A500's operating system in situ through the Tube until, one by one, the on-board I/O ports were enabled and the A500 ran as a stand-alone computer. With an upgraded processor this was eventually released during 1987 as four models in the Archimedes series, the lower-specified two models (512 KB and 1 MB) continuing the BBC Microcomputer brand with the distinctive red function keys.
Although the Archimedes ultimately was not a major success, the ARM family of processors has become the dominant processor architecture in mobile embedded consumer devices, particularly mobile telephones.Acorn's last BBC-related model, the BBC A3000, was released in 1989. It was essentially a 1 MB Archimedes back in a single case.Retro computing scene.
Acorn co-founder playing a game on a Master in 2012As of 2018, thanks to its ready expandability and I/O functions, there are still numbers of BBC Micros in use, and a community of dedicated users finding new tasks for the old hardware. They still survive in a few interactive displays in museums across the United Kingdom, and the observatory was reported to be still using a BBC Micro to steer its 42 ft radio telescope during 2004. The Archimedes came with 65Arthur, an which stated 'lets many programs for the BBC Micro run'; other emulators exist for many operating systems. Clockwise from top left:, David Allen, David Kitson, Chris Turner, and at the BBC Micro 30th anniversary in 2012In March 2008, the creators of the BBC Micro met at the in London. There was to be an exhibition about the computer and its legacy during 2009.The UK at uses BBC Micros as part of a scheme to educate school children about computer programming.In March 2012, the BBC and Acorn teams responsible for the BBC Micro and Computer Literacy Project met for a 30th anniversary party, entitled 'Beeb@30'. This was held at 's offices in Cambridge and was co-hosted by the. Continued development and support Long after the 'venerable old Beeb' was superseded, additional hardware and software has been developed.
Such developments have included Sprow's 1999 utility and a for the. There are also a number of websites still supporting both hardware and software development for the BBC micros and Acorn in general. Specifications (Model A to Model B+128) Model AModel BModel B+64Model B+128at 26512A at 2 MHz16 KB32 KB64 KB composed of 32 KB standard memory, 20 KB video ( ) memory and 12 KB extended ( special Sideways) memory.128 KB composed of 32 KB standard memory, 20 KB video ( Shadow) memory and 76 KB extended ( Sideways) memory.32 KB of ROM composed of a 16 KB (Machine Operating System) chip, and 16 KB read-only paged space defaulting to the chip. Four paged 16 KB ROM sockets standard, expandable to 16.48 KB of ROM composed of 16 KB MOS, 16 KB, and 16 KB read-only paged space defaulting to the BBC BASIC.Full-travel keyboard with a top row of ten red-orange ƒ0–ƒ9. These generated when pressed with CTRL or SHIFT, and could be programmed with keyboard macros. The arrow keys and BREAK could also serve as function keys. Links on the keyboard PCB allowed users to select the behaviour of Shift+Break, and Display Mode on Power-up/Break.
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