First, re jojopi and his/her BBC libel! Standard graphics modes ranged from 160x256 to 640x256, nonstandard modes included an 80x256 mode which could do 16 logical colours in 16K of RAM and various custom modes (as used by for instance Codename Droid and Exile) - Also split screen modes were possibl...

<t>Basic is perfectly good for many tasks...<br/> <br/> Once the machines appear I'll probably have a go at optimising Brandy (an open source BBC Basic V implementation) for the platform...<br/> <br/> Brandy is also nice in that on ARM you can have the excellent BBC Basic assembler that was built in...