Re: What specs would your Apple ][ clone have today?

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Mar 31, 7:29 pm, "biel...@terra.es" <biel...@terra.es> wrote:
> I think that BBC's Basic is a marvelous gem : <http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk>,
> and the BBC computers themselves too.
> The Apple II stands quite well compared to the BBC's 6502 computers,
> unlike this Micro-Soft's (P.O.C.) Applesoft thing that made its way
> into it... :-(
>
> (AppleSoft predates BBC's Basic by several years, though)

BBC Basic is certainly more powerful than Applesoft, but the base BBC
is also more powerful than the base Apple II. (2Mhz CPU, Mockingboard-
like sound chip etc.) Perhaps this was because it was later to market
(1981) - though the //e certainly wasn't a competitive offering in
1983. The only real hardware addition was double-hires, with no
Applesoft support for it.

BTW, thanks for the link. I was very surprised when I followed the
"Full list of BBC BASIC versions" and saw this page:
http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Software/BBCBasic/

The icon for "Apple Mac" is the one that I designed for "Virtu", our
freeware Apple II emulator for the Acorn Archimedes! ;-)

Cheers,
Nick.