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As a learning-experience, here is a real-world BCPL application, the source code for the Essex MUD1:

https://github.com/PDP-10/MUD1.git

You still can play a version of it online as described here:

http://www.british-legends.com/CMS/index.php/play-the-game

Personally, I logged on from Linux ...

In case anyone looks for something beyond Hello World to try the compiler on, here is a little program from the Richards distribution (which contains a host of examples), dealing with the coin problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_problem .

If you run it with EXEC rather than EXEC_W for ...

Hi Paul,
I seem to remember that I tried multiples of 1024 and that for some reason 4x1024=4096 worked for all three programmes: ED, BCPL and BLINK.

Unfortunately I don't have the actual program at my fingertips right now, but does that work for you?

Finn

Hi,
just for the record, I ran BCPL purely out of the zip provided in this thread on Q-emulator, and no sign of dependency on a dongle.

However, in order to make it run I used the BASIC program provided in this post to restore the headers:
https://dilwyn2.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/magic-fields ...