::: Area #157 (comp.sys.acorn.programmer)
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Date   : Thu Mar  4 19:08:59 1999
From   : trill@netbook.demon.co.uk
Subject: Nimbus tokenised BASIC - nonstandard!
Message-ID: <9aafa6dd48%trill@netbook.demon.co.uk>

Does anyone know about the tokenised BASIC format used by RM's
implementation of BBC BASIC for their Nimbus machines? I've got a file,
BLOCKS.BBC, that I'd like to extract the BASIC from to use on an x86 Beeb
emulator, but neither BASIC 2 under !6502Em nor BASIC 5 on my SA RPC will
make any sense of the file: loading it with Zap reveals that the majority
of the program is there, but the line numbers are badly messed up.

Could this be to do with invalid EOL sequences (CR LF when RISC OS wants
just CR or just LF - I can't remember which) in the tokenised BASIC file
which is throwing the line numbers? There are some errors in
detokenisation of the code, but the line numbers are the most obvious
problem.

Alternatively, does anyone have an Acorn-style BASIC tokenised file of
Blocks, by Anita Straker, from 1983?

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