Hi

I've recently got back into the BBC and have started doing some small BASIC programs to familiarise myself (it's been 20 years!).

What do members of the forum use for BASIC programming? Do you just use the BASIC command line, or do you use an editor of some sort? Any recommendations for a "development toolkit" (any ROMs or utilities that help with programming)?

I'm not yet dealing with any assembler, so anything specific to BASIC would be useful.

(Edit: I'm using a BBC Master, so looking for tools that work on this model).

Thanks!

JR

I use Visual Studio and then the paster feature in BeebEm, but that is more for the search and replace side of things.

There are versions of BBC basic for nearly all machines, I would try the one for windows (or your OS of choice).

I don't know if swift does it.

Swift will allow you to type in your BASIC program and will then transfer it directly to your emulator.
If you go here:
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/SWIFT#Tutorials
and scroll down to the last of Steve's excellent tutorial videos, it shows you how.

Kian

I tend to either use Edit on RISC OS, Edit on the Master, or the command line. I sometimes use the BBC BASIC for Windows IDE then transfer over to the Master and convert it with BasConv to Acorn format.