Acorn Business Computer

[yevrowl]

There is a line of PCs that are quite diverse in terms of functionality and even architecture — Acorn Business Computers.

Interested in whether there are emulators for them, as well as interpreters and compilers for the BASIC programming language.

 

[Pernod]

The ABC range are basically just BBC B+ machines with either a Z80, 32016, or 80286 co-processor bundled in a big box, they were intended to run CP/M, Panos, and DOS respectively. There's nothing special about them and very few were actually produced, only the Acorn Cambridge Workstation which includes the 32016 co-processor was actually marketed.

The ABC range are emulated in MAME. They all contain the standard BBC BASIC interpreter, just like a standard BBC B+, but the ACW was bundled with FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, and LISP languages.