Ah... but the fun with BBC basic was the assembler, no? Just a little square bracket and away! I once wrote a key-logger that sat on the school BBC, waiting for "*Iam" commands, using the screen refresh event to watch all key presses, and passing anything other than the login commands unmolested to the command line interpreter, but saving the next twenty characters whenever anyone tried to log in (on econet). Got the teachers password within hours. Happy days! :o)
But the ability to just drop in assembler into BBc Basic so easily was amazing.... just something like this, I think...
10 DIM code 12
20 FOR opt=1 TO 3 STEP 2
30 P%=code
40 [OPT opt
50
60 *****INSERT ALL KINDS OF FUN ASSEMBLER HERE!*****
70
80 ]
90 NEXT
Biting the hand that feeds IT
