2. What You Need to Run StrongBS

StrongBS requires and Acorn machine with the following specifications:

To date StrongBS has been fully tested on the following machines:

  1. A5000 with 4Mb ram - RISC OS 3.10
  2. RiscPC 700 36Mb ram - RISC OS 3.60
  3. RiscPC StrongARM 64Mb ram - RISC OS 3.70

Compressed BASIC programs generated by StrongBS has been tested and will work with the following versions of BBC BASIC:

  1. BASIC V version 1.05
  2. BASIC V version 1.06
  3. BASIC V version 1.14
  4. BASIC V version 1.16

It is expected that the compressed BASIC program generated by StrongBS will work with future versions of the BBC BASIC language.

If you used StrongBS with different machine specifications or later versions of BBC BASIC, please notify the Author (see email address above), so that the tested configurations and BASIC versions can be added to the above list.