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BBC BASIC was unmatched because of its built-in assembler. I wish that feature was more common among BASIC interpreters back then.


Indeed! R.T.Russel's Z80 version also includes a built-in Z80 assembler that works in exactly the same way. Being able to inline assembler with BASIC was a stroke of genius, and many developers of the day relied upon it to assemble their code. I've extended the Next version to include the Next-specific Z80N opcodes such as NEXTREG and PIXELAD.




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