This section shows the current progress of the BC+ project. The BC+ is a little "oldschool" graphics computer to teach beginners how to write games and demos. Never heard about demos? Please visit this page Demoscene.info.

In the good old days you could simply turn on your computer and you would most likely be greeted by a nice basic prompt. Basic was the programming language for starters at that time and also most computers were delivered with a good part of the documentation to learn Basic as well. You're first "Hello World" would have been on the screen in less than 5 Minutes of reading the documentation.

Today starting to programming isn't as easy as it was back in the 80's. You'll first have to decide between the languages, like C, C++, C#, Visual Basic and others and buy a development software package. Then you'll have to find the right libraries to let you program graphics, sound and inputs. You'll need to install all of that in the right spots and hope it will work. Here your first "Hello World" might take half a day of completely unrelated time.

The BC+ tries to get back to the basics. Have a simple system that will boot up showing you BASIC. Have a good enough graphics engine that allows you to display images the way oldschool computers do. Have a good soundengine that allows for FM synthesized sounds. Also it will run the upcoming Bob Fungus Saga Games.

How does the BC+ compared to my PC?

It is not meant to compete against current 3D graphics cards and multichannel sound cards. Rather than doing this the goal was to have a nice and simple computer that is easy to understand and affordable.