2 May
2024
2 May
'24
8:59 p.m.
There's also Geoff Graham's BASIC for the Pi Pico.
https://geoffg.net/picomite.html
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On May 2, 2024, at 4:23 PM, Gordon Henderson via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
I'm told Lua is the new Basic or Python is the new Basic, but the best thing for me
about Basic on the old micros was being able to turn the computer on and type Basic into
it immediately.... And to that end, I decided to re-target my C Basic it to a bare metal
framework for the Raspberry Pi I'd been working on - boots to Basic in... well,
it's not as quick as an Apple II or BBC Micro, but under 2 seconds. It's a bit
faster on a Pi Zero as there's no USB to initialise...
That's why I've been playing with FORTH on my Raspberry Pico microcontrollers
(Travis Bemann's "Zeptoforth" dialect, to be precise). It's nice and
compact, and it boots in milliseconds. Multicore, multitasking, lots of library
modules... nice.
paul