The BBC was designed by the UK company Acorn,
makers of the Archimedes. Revolutionary for its time, it supported multiple processors (6502, with an optional Z80), quite good graphics capabilities, the
capability of (rudimentary) network support, and its major claim to
fame for its time: Structured BASIC as its default programming
language.
 | BeebEm for Mac 3.2. |
A Mac OS X port of a popular Acorn BBC emulator from the world of windows.
 | the homepage of BeebEm for Mac. |
| Horizon 1.3.7, a BBC Micro emulator for OS X. |
| Emulator Enhancer, which adds extra features to Horizon. |
| Horizon 1.1, which is compatible with OS 9. |
| the BBC ROMs, which are required for Horizon to run. |
Horizon is the only full BBC Micro emulation package for Macintosh.
| the Horizon Home Page. |
| the Horizon Converter, which can convert other BBC Micro emulators' image formats to Horizon-compatible data. |
 | to the author of Horizon, Chris Lam. |
| ElectrEm 0.6c 18-01-2007 for OS X v10.2+. |
ElectrEm is a cross-platform Acorn Electron emulator. The Acorn Electron was a cheaper, simplified version of the BBC-B Micro Computer released in 1983, and is compatible with much of the BBC's software.
| the ElectrEm home page. |
BBC Basic Emulation
This odd piece of software seems to be an emulator for the BBC Basic programming language. Although not a full emulator, it is certainly worth noting, even though it costs 149 pounds!
Here are some notes about the emulator from a former user.
- Interpreted
- Tries to implement much of the BBC command set - it doesn't do things
beginning with * (ROM calls or something if I remember) and some of the
VDU codes are not covered, I think. But most other stuff is - it has a
very valiant attempt at MODEs, though it is only a black and white
program. Obviously you can't write machine code in it either.
- Can do graphics
- Basically fills the whole screen up with a BBC Micro view; the only
concessions to the Mac are a menu bar and a text window for editing
programs. However in my copy this window wouldn't go away: if you were
fool enough to open it, you couldn't close it again so it obscured the BBC
screen view.
 | a review of Mac BBC Basic. |
| the BBC Games Archive. |
