I've never owned a BBC Micro, but I'm on Twitter and there's a BBC Micro bot that will take BBC BASIC code you tweet at it and show you the results.

Links

• BBC Micro BASIC emulator
• BBC basic dot co dot uk
• BBC Basic for Windows
• BBC Basic Docs on MDFS
• BBC Microcomputer System User Guide
• BASIC tips and tricks

Characters

The BBC Micro allows you to create your own 8x8 characters for use in programs, here are a few I've made (except the dog, that comes from the manual), remember to change #charnum# to your desired character number

checkerboard: VDU 23,#charnum#,170,85,170,85,170,85,170,85
inverse checkerboard: VDU 23,#charnum#,85,170,85,170,85,170,85,170
dog: VDU 23,#charnum#,32,98,226,62,62,35,33,33
left triangle: VDU 23,#charnum#,128,192,224,240,248,252,254,255
right triangle: VDU 23,#charnum#,1,3,7,15,31,63,127,255
Fibionacci: VDU 23,#charnum#,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21
Fibionacci 2: VDU 23,#charnum#,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233
"broken jpeg": VDU 23,#charnum#,129,126,66,90,90,66,126,129
bowtie: VDU 23,#charnum#,129,195,231,255,255,231,195,129
inverse bowtie: VDU 23,#charnum#,126,60,24,0,0,24,60,126
maltese cross: VDU 23,#charnum#,126,60,153,255,255,153,60,126
spiral/@: VDU 23,#charnum#,255,1,253,133,181,189,129,255

Space Invader 1: VDU 23,#charnum#24,60,126,219,255,36,90,165
Space Invader 2: VDU 23,#charnum#24,60,126,219,255,90,129,66

Heart Outline: VDU 23,#charnum#0,102,153,129,129,66,36,24
Heart Half: VDU 23,#charnum#0,102,249,241,241,114,52,24
Heart Full: VDU 23,#charnum#0,102,255,255,255,126,60,24

Frogger: VDU 23,#charnum#60,153,189,255,60,255,129,102