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Writing, Transferring & Executing BBC Basic for the Amstrad NC100

I've been writing a bit about the Amstrad NC100 over on mastodon lately, and talking about transferring files to and from macOS as well as experimenting with BBCBasic.

This post, which admittedly is a little niche and may only appeal to a a handful of people, is about that process from start to finish.

Read the full post here: https://retrodon.net/writing-transferring-executing-bbc-basic-for-the-amstrad-nc100/

#amstrad #bbcbasic #coding #NC100

My first little utility for the Amstrad NC100 - just to test the dev flow really. Binary to integer converter. Handy for a portable notepad :)

I may put a blog post up on the end-to-end process as there are some idiosyncrasies along the way...

#Amstrad #NC100 #bbcbasic

@ukscone @olimex
No need to duck, 40 years has mellowed me ;-)

In fact, Z80 assembler from BBC basic was on my mind, I've been driving my CNC with an Amstrad #NC100, which has BBC basic with z80 assembler too.

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/NC_Series#Software

Had a lot of fun today getting serial file transfers working for the NC100 - made much harder by trying to get it working on modern macOS (windows was a breeze). Finally succeeded using CoolTerm and experimenting with settings. The driver install for the Silicon Labs CP210x serial to USB cable went surprisingly smoothly. Files both ways now working, which all means I can get to this point now 😀

#BBCBasic #AdventureGames #NC100

Hey #retrocomputing masto - any UK people got any spare 1MB PCMCIA SRAM cards they would like to sell me? The sort that fit in the Amstrad NC100 and others. Seems they are pretty hard to find now. Located some in the US of A but shipping is a killer. Any help appreciated 😀 #nc100 #amstradNC100

"The Linux PCMCIA support in modern systems is generally terminally broken and orphaned. The best approach is to load a very old Linux (2.4 era) onto an old laptop and use that."

The old laptop is no problem, but where can we find the "very old Linux" as a downloadable ISO image? #fuzix #nc100

Project #FUZIX on #NC100 reaches first milestone: FUZIX is running on NC100-Emulator nc100emu

@stevelord #Protext is great! Comes with the #NC100!

And three of them (at least) offer #bbcbasic !

(I have an #amstrad #nc100)

(looks like the NEC PC-8201 offers microsoft #basic)

@jonn_blanchard