Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Dec 2012 13:45 UTC
"With fond memories of educational titles like 'Granny's Garden', and less educational ones like 'Pole Position' and 'Boffin', the BBC B seemed like a worthy machine to bring back to life inside an FPGA." The Hacker News thread has links to more FPGA implementations of older home computers.
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RE: BBC Micro - best 8-bit computer ever
by transputer_guy on Thu 20th Dec 2012 15:55
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Wonderful, maybe 1 more incentive to buy an Android.
Given that the ARM chip was first emulated at the logic level on a Beeb, there is a wonderful irony there.
If you had the original Basic code model of the ARM chip, you could run it on a Beebdroid.
And you are right, it was the best ever 8bit PC, you could do Forth, BCPL, Lisp, besides the excellent Basic. Plus it gave us the TV show for which it was built.
RE[2]: BBC Micro - best 8-bit computer ever
by zima on Sat 22nd Dec 2012 17:57
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RE: BBC Micro - best 8-bit computer ever
by henderson101 on Fri 21st Dec 2012 12:17
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Although the BBC Micro was never as popular as certain other 8-bit micros primarily because of its price, it still remains the world's best 8-bit micro ever produced by some distance. Its OS, BASIC, keyboard and standard ports were never surpassed by any other 8-bit machine and it was one of the few 8-bit machines that were a pleasure to program on (I never owned a Spectrum, but I can imagine how painful that must have been to write code on).
For nostalgia fans with Android devices, can I point you to Beebdroid:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.littlefluffytoys.b...
A near perfect emulator with the ability to download and play most of the old BBC Micro classic games. Nothing like this on the Apple iTunes store you'll note!