BBC>>Mac BBC BASIC BBC Emulator connectivity BBC Micro/Macintosh
The BBC Microcomputer and the Mac Connect
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Human-Computer Interface has announced a range of BBC
Microcomputer-to-Macintosh connectivity products that let you use
BBC Microcomputer applications in the Mac environment.
 
BBC>>Mac puts the BBC filing system onto the Mac Desktop as if
it were an external disk drive attached to the Mac. It is a
software package primarily designed to provide a direct link, for
file transfer and printing, between BBC Microcomputers linked to
an Econet file server, and a Mac on AppleTalk. You can also use
the file exchange facility with floppy-disk drives or hard-disk
drives attached to a single BBC Microcomputer.
 
BBC BASIC is a software package for the Mac that provides an
interactive programming language especially suitable for
educational use, together with emulation features that let you
run most existing educational software originally developed for
the BBC Microcomputer.
 
The BBC Emulator provides BBC Microcomputer emulation facilities
on the Mac, optimized for running language and application ROMs
transferred from the BBC Microcomputer to a standalone Mac. You
can download ROMs via a serial transfer cable, and, in turn, you
can run or save these on the Mac.
 
Price: L95 for BBC>>Mac; L149 for BBC BASIC; L39 for the BBC
Emulator.
 
Contact: Human-Computer Interface Ltd., 11 Brunswick Walk,
Cambridge CB5 8DH, UK, 44-0223-314934.
 
                              --- Martha Hicks
 
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