brandy - a portable BBC BASIC V interpreter
brandy [-help] [-size SIZE]
[-lib FILENAME] [-load FILENAME]
[-path DIRECTORY[,DIRECTORY]...]
[-quit FILENAME] [-chain FILENAME]
[-ignore] [FILENAME]
Brandy is an interpreter for BBC BASIC V, the
dialect of BASIC that Acorn Computers supplied with their ranges of desktop
computers that use the ARM processor such as the Archimedes and Risc PC, and
is still in use on these and compatibles.
BASIC V is a much extended version of BBC BASIC. This was
the BASIC used on the 6502-based BBC Micro that Acorn made during the
1980s.
- -help
- Print a summary of these options.
- -size SIZE
- Set the size of the Basic workspace to SIZE bytes when starting the
interpreter. The minimum size allowed is 10000 bytes and anything below
this value will be set to it. The maximum size is limited only by the
environment in which the program is being run. The size may have a suffix
of k to denote that the size is in kilobytes or m if it is
in megabytes. For example, -size 100k will set the workspace size
to 100 kilobytes (102400 bytes) and -size 8m will set it to eight
megabytes (8388608 bytes).
- -lib FILENAME
- Load Basic library FILENAME when the interpreter starts. This
option can be repeated as many times as required to load a number of
libraries. This is equivalent to typing INSTALL
“FILENAME” at the interpreter's command line. The
libraries are loaded in the order given on the command line. Note that the
search order is the reverse of this.
- -load FILENAME
- Load Basic program FILENAME when the interpreter starts.
- -path
DIRECTORY[,DIRECTORY]...
- This specifies a list of directories that the interpreter will search when
looking for libraries and programs. The directory names are separated by
commas. The pseudo-variable FILEPATH$ is set to this value.
- -quit FILENAME
- Load and run the Basic program FILENAME. Leave the interpreter when
the program has finished running.
- -chain
FILENAME
- Load and run the Basic program FILENAME. Remain in the interpreter
when the program has finished running.
- -graphics
- Start the interpreter with the screen in graphics mode in versions of the
program which support graphics and the screen can be in either text or
graphics modes.
- -ignore
- Ignore certain `unsupported feature' errors. By default the interpreter
reports an error whenever it comes across a BASIC V feature that it does
not support. This option allows some unsupported features that do not
affect the basic running of the program to be ignored.
- FILENAME
- This is exactly equivalent to -chain.
The case of the names of the options is ignored. It depends on the
operating system under which the interpreter is running as to whether the
names of files are case sensitive or insensitive.
- brandy
- executable
- /usr/share/doc/brandy/examples
- example BASIC programs
- /usr/share/doc/brandy
- full documentation
Brandy's home page
- http://jaguar.orpheusweb.co.uk/branpage.html
There is some very useful documentation for the BBC Micro
available on the Internet. One very good site is The BBC Lives!
at:
- http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/
or see http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy/
David Daniels, with contributions from Darren Salt and Colin
Tuckley
Report bugs to the bug tracker at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy
Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 David Daniels. Copyright (c) 2009, 2012
Colin Tuckley. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.