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Of course after finding that #BBCMaster video again, YouTube thinks that I should see someone who was not even yet born in the 20th century going on about the woes of typing in PETSCII copied from computer magazine listings. (-:

It's not in fact an experience that I can relate to. I loaded/saved PET programs from/to tape, and never had a C64.

Come to think of it; you don't see many of the #retrocomputing crowd using #cassettes, do you?

Retrocomputers! You haven't had the complete experience until you've accidentally unplugged the headphone jack and listened to the code. No, it doesn't sound like modem handshaking.

MOTOR ON

youtube.com/watch?v=tFb89_gN2d

Aha! Found it! I'd been looking for this. Recommended once by YouTube, and then lost.

Paint.App
… on GEM
… on DR-DOS
… on an 8086 PC emulator
… on a Raspberry Pi
… running as a second processor using a BBC Master 128 for I/O.

There's a follow-up re-hash video by @WiFiSheep that explains the tokenization problem with the CIRCLE statement.

Of the many people who have run #Elite on a Pi second processor, none seem to have thought about switching to the PDP-11 emulation and trying to run some early Unix. But seeing DR-DOS on a BBC Master is pretty wild.

youtube.com/watch?v=mP7fiaync5