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RSI-BASIC, both interpreter and compiler

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello! My first post in this forum... My dad got an Epson QX-10 computer for his home office when I was 13 years old, and I learned how to use a computer and BASIC programming with it. But I was never able to buy RSI-Basic, and can´t find it in any QX-10 …

Floating Point to string/ASCII conversion

VCFed about 5 months ago

First some background: for years I'm busy developing my own OS, Pascal compiler and Basic interpreter. These are very slow projects. To handle numbers, I need to be able to handle Floating Point. Converting a string/ASCII to single or double precision is n …

RUN/C: A C Language Interpreter 1980's

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi, I have been reading about, and playing with a C Language Interpreter called "RUN/C Professional" as was offered by Lifeboat Associates in the 1980's, and as reviewed here: https://www... …
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The Source Code For Infocom's Amazing Code-Porting Tools Has Now Been Preserved

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin.Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom's code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew …
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New Releases • Graphic Adventure Assembler for C64

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

I am pleased to announce the release of my adventure authoring tool: GAAC64. (Yes I know that's really close to another program, but I found out late and am not changing the branding)https://malcontent... program takes a script file that …
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New Releases • Free Release - Tristam Island by Hugo Labrannded just Updated Minimum Price to $0.00

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …
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TRS80-4P memory problem

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hi all, first post Been a lurker for a while. I have my family TRS-80 Model 4P, which until recently, has been working pretty well. Upgraded the PSU with Jay Newirth's awesome replacement PSU, added a hi-res card from Ian Mavric (along with a FreHD), an …
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Help & Support • Executing line even when parameters don't match

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

So, this is in basic, and I am absolutely mystified as to what in the world is going on.What exactly this is doing is pretty much irrelevant, but there is a for loop, S, going from 1 to 14, checking if a given space on a board is occupied, and if it is, i …

8-bit acorn software: other • I found the original author of BBC BASIC V for the 65c02!

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi Everyone! First post here.I'm currently doing an open source project where I'm porting BBC BASIC to the Ben Eater 6502 breadboard computer. I'm writing it as a thin layer on top of the original BBC BASIC binaries. GitHub here for those who are curious: …

development tools • Rom Filing System stream generator

Stardot about 7 months ago

I have written a simple utility for creating a byte stream in the correct format for inclusion in a sideways ROM image that can be read by the RFS:https://github.com/Juli... might need to alter …
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Chit Chat • SBC that works even not featuring „real” CPU

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

From the designer's page:My4TH] (pronounced "my fourth") is my fourth homebuilt CPU-less computer after MyCPU, MyNOR and TraNOR. I wanted to build the simplest computer possible, with a discrete CPU using as few gates and components as possible, running a …
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Why was Sinclair BASIC so slow?

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

I am reading the 1986 Adamson book on Sinclair, and they talk about the development of Sinclair BASIC. In it they mention that the version for the Spectrum was “depressingly slow” and “snail like”. I’m aware of the issues on the ZX81 …

new projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Duck! Me? - Releases

Stardot about 9 months ago

At long last, this game has been independently tested and is (hopefully) fit for a second release. At time of writing, the version hosted at https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game... is the ill-fated release 1, so hopefully that will get updated in due cour …
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A tiny self-hosted Forth (and an interesting Basic too)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

A particular (interesting) tiny self-hosted Forth, by Kragen Javier Sitaker: GitHub GitHub - kragen/stoneknifeforth: a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation. Contribute t …
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B compiler restored (runnable on v1 unix)

Retro Computing Forum about 10 months ago

Angelo Papenhoff writes: …right now I feel that I’ve reach an interesting enough milestone to warrant a separate thread for this here. First of all, I want to stress that this is still WIP, but everything can be found here now: https://gi …

BASIC interpreter for SunOS 4.1.4/Solaris 1.1.2

VCFed about 11 months ago

All -- Not sure if this belongs here or in Vintage Software, but I'm playing around with my IPX and wondered if there was a BASIC interpreter someone developed for that platform. Most of what I'm finding in my searches are for more current platforms (Wind …
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Microsoft BASIC for the Dragon 64

Retro Computing Forum about 11 months ago

GitHub GitHub - davidlinsley/DragonBasic: This repository contains the source code... This repository contains the source code for the Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola …
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SectorC: A C compiler that fits in the boot sector

Retro Computing Forum about 12 months ago

We have previously seen SectorLISP and SectorForth, and now a character going by ‘xorvoid’ has produced SectorC. Like the other two projects that inspired it, it is a boot sector that implements a programming language. There is a great w …