help pdf

[Balgur]

hi, im new.
There is a pdf version for the help document?

[Ric]

Hi balgur and welcome
Try going to the home page on the web for bb4w and you'll find all you need there.
Ric

[Hated Moron]

There is a pdf version for the help document?

The PDF is here, but it's for BBC BASIC for Windows rather than BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 (where they differ):

https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin.pdf

There isn't currently a PDF specifically for BBCSDL.

[Hated Moron]

On 26/11/2022 11:16, Maksim AbuAjamieh wrote (cross-posted from the Discussion Group):

P.S. Can you change the “Hated Moron” name? It does not do good for the language, us, or you.

I did change my username at the Discussion Group, some time ago. I cannot change it here (at the forum), even if I wanted to, because that is not a facility that it provides. Some forums do allow you to select a 'display name' different from your username, but phpBB is not one of them.

It will (probably) be only a short time before I am too unwell to contribute to the forum, so it will cease to be an issue then.

[Hated Moron]

On 26/11/2022 16:49, Maksim AbuAjamieh wrote (cross-posted from the Discussion Group):

Nonsense, don’t go into that state of mind.

Alzheimer's Disease is not "a state of mind", it is a physical condition. It's true that it is difficult to diagnose with certainly (except post-mortem) but this is what the radiologist concluded based on my brain MRI scan: "Findings of a right-sided medial cranial fossa arachnoid cyst. Mild parietal lobe volume loss which may suggest an underlying neurodegenerative process e.g. Alzheimer's disease". Taken with my worsening symptoms (memory loss, depression) it is a reasonable assumption.

I should add (I've referred to all this before) that the reason I had the MRI scan - and a PET scan - of my brain was because I had enrolled in a clinical trial (the Janssen EARLY Study) into early-onset dementia. I was assessed as being suitable for that trial based on the scans and other tests, so it wasn't just the judgement of one individual. Unfortunately, the trial was discontinued because of adverse reactions in a few participants, so I never received the drug.

When one has a progressive disease with no effective treatment it is hurtful to be told that it's "nonsense".

[Hated Moron]

On 26/11/2022 21:12, Maksim AbuAjamieh wrote (cross-posted from the Discussion Group):

I will not comment further on this as it is a sensitive topic.

I don't feel it is "sensitive". It's personal, and as such not something that I think ought to be discussed in a forum dedicated to BBC BASIC, but I don't have any objection to it being known (especially as it is already having an impact on users, in respect of the support I can provide and my ability to maintain my products).

But I am still against that nickname to show in such a great informative group that you are essentially the core of.

I explained that the forum provides no way for a user to change their 'display name'. Perhaps you could consider joining the forum yourself, then you will see what degree of control a user has (or doesn't have) over their profile.

The BBC4win one is a great Reference, but it assumes you are familiar with Basic

Indeed. It's a technical reference manual, not an introduction to the language. The Beginners' Tutorial is the closest I have to the latter.

I might be wrong but seems documentation and educating system users was taken much more seriously in the past

Back in the 1980s Acorn was still under contract to the BBC so the documentation and 'educational' aspects were in part driven by that association. There were also professionals employed to write documentation then, which there aren't now!