Just catching up on my reading and came across this in NTK's edition of January 25th. It's rare enough that RISC OS and Acorn stuff gets a mention outside the usual suspects, but when it's done with such humour it's an added bonus so I'll post the Tracking section in full for all to enjoy. There's even a link to ArgoNet user Dave Daniel's site at the bottom, for it is he who has ported BASIC V to Unix, Windows and, um, RISC OS in interpreter Brandy; and if you follow the second link there's some interesting Acorn history.

Who hasn't at some point yearned to write UNIX scripts in the Basic that came with the original 1982 BBC Computer? Everyone. Don't argue: everyone. BRANDY is a GPL'd port of BBC BASIC's last living descendant, BASIC V, to BSD/Unix, Windows/DOS, and RISCOS. From the PASCALish DEF PROC to the BBC's peculiar C-like indirection operators ! and ?, it's all here. Brandy's RISC version even has support for VDU 19 and SOUND commands - it's up to you to implement those under the other platforms. Best of all, it's had the USENET seal of approval from Sophie nee Roger Wilson, the one-woman once-man whirlwind who wrote the first BBC Basic in assembler as well as creating most of the original Atom, designing the BBC screen font, and sketching out the first ARM RISC processor instruction set. Nice she's letting other people get their hand in these days.

http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/dave_daniels/

- do hope it's not named after Brandon Butterworth

http://digital-guru.de/stage2/et/bigtime2.htm

- Sophie Creates An Industry

Source: NTK