The command-line based editor scared many away, but I think it was actually quite smooth. Unfortunately, there was no way to write an IDE in BBC Basic for it since the List command had a return function at the end of it :'( My guess is, though, that DocDE could probably read and write to the files. They're most likely still in ASCII Text.

And yeah. What would be sweet would be to port all the thousands of BBC Micro (about C64 quality) games to our calcs

Unless we made a converting program. All that needs changing, if we run it with BBC Basic for z80, is sprite coordinates/size/color and other small, hardware specific things.

Actually there could be a way to write an IDE if you wrote directly to the program files themselves, but you would have to write the IDE normally, and that scared me away from writing one in the first place

Did you know that BBC Basic is actually a pre-existing language? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC
Yeah, it hasn't caught on for calcs, though.

Yeah I know. Benryves tried to keep the calc version as true to the original as possible. This probably explains the program editor provided with the APP.