The soft button needs work
This would be a five star app were it not for the soft back button. It is a necessary GUI element, but its execution breaks the app, or at least causes me to be constantly working around it.. First, there is no reason it should be so huge. Make it small! Second, it overlays the first lines of text. When coding, we must make space for the button or otherwise we create untouchable code at the beginning. When running programs, I often have no idea what they say on their first line because it is under that button.
Make the button small and move it out of the text area. If you need it huge, make the text screen begin under it. Something else that might be nice is an invisible ESC "area".
Make the button small and move it out of the text area. If you need it huge, make the text screen begin under it. Something else that might be nice is an invisible ESC "area".
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Needs a few UI tweaks, and a mod to CR <-> LF mod.
Takes a few seconds to work out how to create a NEW BASIC file, but does what it says. Main niggles are: 1) the lack of any feature / means to convert Carriage Returns to Line Feeds and vice versa, in the editor, to permit code blocks to be pasted in from the Web, Apple's Note app, a text editor, ... . Limiting any copy-n-pastes to a single line. 2) No proper *HELP command, with the peculiarities documented, or even how to get back to the menu 3) No *Command to get back to the MENU (other than working out a press "<" (ESCAPE) icon to bring up a keyboard, and typing: CALL!-4, QUIT, *QUIT, *Q. to kill the emulator, then reloading). Pressing or holding the "<" icon, simply results in ESCAPE being displayed on screen, a new prompt, and the on-screen keyboard appearing 5) No warning its 64bit, so 8 / 16 bit BBC, or 26 / 32 bit Archimedes listings may need to be reworked, to cope with the new bigger types, say addresses needing to be stored in the new, double %%, big Integer type, eg. freeMem%% = HIMEM - LOWMEM
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Response from developer
I can't reproduce this. I can copy-and-paste a code block from the Pages app or a web page into BBC BASIC, and line-breaks are preserved.
no voiceover support
inaccessible. Β£A11Y.
Amazing
Seeing is believing. I never thought I would see an app like this on my iPad. The videotext examples were particularly impressive.
Good port of BBC Basic with limitations
The BBC Basic implementation is very close to other versions created by this author. Unfortunately the main functions like displaying folders and files and editing etc. are very rudimentary. The virtual keyboard has no extensions for making editing easier.
I was not able to create folders and files either.
Overall a good start and look forward to future releases.
I was not able to create folders and files either.
Overall a good start and look forward to future releases.
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