brandy (1)

brandy [-help] [-sizeSIZE] [-libFILENAME] [-loadFILENAME] [-pathDIRECTORY[,DIRECTORY]...] [-quitFILENAME] [-chainFILENAME] [-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.