I have released version
1.29a of
BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 - the cross-platform programming language for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Raspberry Pi OS, Android, iOS and in-browser. The changes in this version are as follows:
- BASIC Interpreter / Run Time Engine
Added support for Serial I/O (e.g. EXT# returning the number of bytes waiting in a serial input buffer).
Fixed a minor graphics bug which could cause fill operations to fail if an odd-value relative coordinate was supplied.
- IDEs and Utilities
Updated searchin.bbc to avoid it being confused by an Acorn-format tokenised program.
Improved error reporting if SDLIDE.bbc fails to create a temporary file.
- Libraries
Optimised aagfxlib by calling SDL2 API functions by address rather than by name.
- Example Programs
Added conway.bbc (in examples/general), a version of Conway's Game of Life in which the calculations are performed by the GPU.
Added video.bbc (in examples/general) as a proof-of-principle demonstration of playing a video, albeit uncompressed and with no sound.
Important note for Android users: the Code Signing Certificate has been updated, and because the company from which I have previously obtained them has closed down the new certificate has a different ID. You will need to uninstall BBC BASIC before you can install v1.29a; take care to
backup (e.g. to a PC) anything you need in
@usr$.
This version may be downloaded, for all the supported platforms, from the
usual location. The
GitHub repository has been updated (used to build the MacOS, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, 64-bit Linux and in-browser editions, currently).
