8 Sep
2014
8 Sep
'14
2:49 p.m.
It's time for another type-in BASIC program challenge! Are you ready
for BASIC Week 3: Under the Sea?
This time around instead of just being a picture or an animation, it's
a game! You take control of a sea turtle in a sort of endless runner
type game. The turtle constantly swims from left to right and the A &
Z keys move the turtle up & down. You need to eat food (x/y characters
in most versions) for points. Running into enemies will cost you
air. You can refill your air by catching air bubbles, or you can
surface to refill completely. When you run out of air it's game over
and the turtle goes belly up.
All you need is a vintage computer that can run BASIC. Like all the
BASIC Weeks before, if you've got a computer with BASIC in ROM you'll
only need a working computer and monitor. There's no requirement that
you save the program to tape or disk, just type it in and run it.
Come check it out: http://redd.it/2fn1zq
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8 Sep
8 Sep
3:21 p.m.
On 09/08/2014 03:49 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
All you need is a vintage computer that can run BASIC.
Like all the
BASIC Weeks before, if you've got a computer with BASIC in ROM you'll
only need a working computer and monitor. There's no requirement that
you save the program to tape or disk, just type it in and run it.
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I don't think anyone but
Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
--Chuck
3:33 p.m.
VMS BASIC? I got the machine if someone's got the time. My 3100/76 destroys
the Ahl benchmark, LOL.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/08/2014 03:49 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
All you need is a vintage computer that can run BASIC. Like all the
BASIC Weeks before, if you've got a computer
with BASIC in ROM you'll
only need a working computer and monitor. There's no requirement that
you save the program to tape or disk, just type it in and run it.
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I don't think anyone but
Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
--Chuck
4:13 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
VMS BASIC? I got the machine if someone's got the
time. My 3100/76 destroys
the Ahl benchmark, LOL.
Is there remote access to it? :-)
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3:47 p.m.
Its almost as much deciding which Basics are really Basics as it is deciding
which computers are Mainframes, Mid-Range or MiniComputers....
I also guess its ironic that Microsoft kind of started with Basic ....
And whilst the latest VB.Net isn't any more basic that C++ is C what about
Visual Basic for DOS was that "Basic". Going back further was QuickBasic a
Basic?
Dave
G4UGM
P.S. if you do have an MS Windows or Linux PC and yearn for that retro
feeling you can always run GWBASIC in DosBox.....
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On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: 09 September 2014 00:22
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations
On 09/08/2014 03:49 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
All you need is a vintage computer that can run BASIC.
Like all the
BASIC Weeks before, if you've got a computer with BASIC in ROM you'll
only need a working computer and monitor. There's no requirement that
you save the program to tape or disk, just type it in and run it.
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I don't think anyone but
Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
--Chuck
4:08 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Its almost as much deciding which Basics are really
Basics as it is deciding
which computers are Mainframes, Mid-Range or MiniComputers....
I also guess its ironic that Microsoft kind of started with Basic ....
And whilst the latest VB.Net isn't any more basic that C++ is C what about
Visual Basic for DOS was that "Basic". Going back further was QuickBasic a
Basic?
P.S. if you do have an MS Windows or Linux PC and yearn for that retro
feeling you can always run GWBASIC in DosBox.....
Decades after abandoning their progeny, Kurtz and Kemeny were SHOCKED, and
I mean SHOCKED, at what they saw in "street BASIC". HOW THE HELL could
they claim that they "never knew" what it had become??!? So, they tried
to force a return to their fundamentalist attitudes with "TRUE BASIC".
But, for the majority, Microsoft BASIC 4.5 defined BASIC. Even 5.0 was a
question. Then, a new generation grew up around TRS80, Applesoft,
Commodore, and eventually PC BASIC. Microsoft "owned" BASIC, and even
Gordon Eubank's CBASIC couldn't break in.
GW-BASIC was created as a substitute for the ROM requirement of MS/IBM
BASICA. Now, Microsoft claims that they "don't remember" what GW stood
for!! (It used to stand for "Gee Whiz".). They've even tried to suggest
that maybe it stood for "Gates, William"!
Yeah, the computer industry lost its sense of humor and stopped being fun
when companies such as "INTERGALACTIC DR", "Thinker-Toys" and
"Kentucky
Fried Computer" changed their names.
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5:32 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Dave G4UGM wrote:
VBDOS and MS BASIC Professional Development System could both compile
the majority of QuickBASIC and QBasic source code, while those in turn could
compile the majority of GW-BASIC/BASICA source code. Some semantics were
different (for instance, CHAIN obviously couldn't work the same way in
a compiled
environment as an interpreted one), but the legacy of old MS BASIC pretty much
carried forward.
I'd argue that even the VBWin versions up to 6.0 had a very familiar
feel. I started
programming in BASICA on a 5150 running PC-DOS 3.21, and the changes from
one generation to the next felt more evolutionary than revolutionary.
The only BASIC
derivative I use now is FreeBASIC (since it runs on Linux), and that
very little, but
the legacy is well-preserved even today, IMHO.
jpw
Its almost as much deciding which Basics are
really Basics as it is deciding
which computers are Mainframes, Mid-Range or MiniComputers....
I also guess its ironic that Microsoft kind of started with Basic ....
And whilst the latest VB.Net isn't any more basic that C++ is C what about
Visual Basic for DOS was that "Basic". Going back further was QuickBasic a
Basic?
P.S. if you do have an MS Windows or Linux PC and yearn for that retro
feeling you can always run GWBASIC in DosBox.....
11:15 p.m.
Can you call a compiler/interpreter that doesn't implement direct mode,
a "real" BASIC? It was pretty much always a feature of the original,
wasn't it?
--Chuck
9 Sep
9 Sep
12:15 a.m.
But just because it has direct mode doesn't mean its Basic. I haven't tried the
very latest VB20xx but VB2008 has a direct mode window in the Visual Studio GUI.....
... and although I make fairly frequent use of it, it doesn't feel like Basic....
Dave
G4UGM
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Sent: 09 September 2014 08:16
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations
Can you call a compiler/interpreter that doesn't implement direct mode, a
"real" BASIC? It was pretty much always a feature of the original, wasn't
it?
--Chuck
8 Sep
8 Sep
4:14 p.m.
On 09/08/2014 04:47 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
P.S. if you do have an MS Windows or Linux PC and
yearn for that retro
feeling you can always run GWBASIC in DosBox.....
Heck, I still run GWBASIC in DOSEMU on 64-bit Linux. Works fine.
Mostly in the direct mode, however--better than a calculator for a lot
of things.
--Chuck
7:25 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/08/2014 04:47 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Or just run CBM BASIC directly...
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=48
http://cbmbasic.sourceforge.net/
-ethan
P.S. if you do have an MS Windows or Linux PC and
yearn for that retro
feeling you can always run GWBASIC in DosBox.....
Heck, I still run GWBASIC in DOSEMU on 64-bit Linux. Works fine. Mostly in
the direct mode, however--better than a calculator for a lot of things.
4:12 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I don't
think anyone but Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
Pick a BASIC! As long as you can get the program running, and it's a vintage computer,
it works. Right now there's ports for the Apple II, Amstrad, Atari 400/800, BBC Micro,
Commodore 64, Commodore 128 (with color graphics!), IBM PC, MSX, and TRS-80 CoCo 3. No-one
has provided a port to a CP/M BASIC. Yet.
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4:35 p.m.
No TI99 or TRS-80 Model I?
Randy
On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I
don't think anyone but Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
Pick a BASIC! As long as you can get the program running, and it's a vintage
computer, it works. Right now there's ports for the Apple II, Amstrad, Atari 400/800,
BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 (with color graphics!), IBM PC, MSX, and TRS-80
CoCo 3. No-one has provided a port to a CP/M BASIC. Yet.
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4:52 p.m.
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Randall Kindig wrote:
No TI99 or TRS-80 Model I?
The TRS-80 Level II BASIC is pretty much the same as several of the
others.
OTOH, The Level I BASIC had some uniqueness, and lack of capabilities.
I think that we can lump all of the Microsoft BASICs of that era together,
as being MINOR variants of the same.
But, when they went to QBASIC, they made some changes.
5:17 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
The TRS-80 Level II BASIC is pretty much the same as
several of the
others.
I did find it interesting that the IBM ROM BASIC looks at the first 40 characters of
variable names, instead of 2 like almost every other Microsoft variant. Because of that I
started with that one this time so I could make easy to read variable names. I was
wondering if that might trip up anyone that did a port to a 2 letter version, but so far
they?ve all caught it and shortened the names and made sure they were unique.
OTOH, The Level I BASIC had some uniqueness, and lack
of capabilities.
Good luck. That BASIC was extremely limited. Only 26 numeric variables, one for each
letter? Only 2 strings? Only 1 numeric array? My program is using a lot of strings and
arrays.
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5:38 p.m.
So I assume that you have to have a display with an addressable cursor?
Output to TTY isn't going to hack it?
--Chuck
5:44 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
So I assume that you have to have a display with an
addressable cursor? Output to TTY isn't going to hack it?
You don?t have a TTY that can feed the paper in reverse and has a whiteout ribbon?
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1:17 p.m.
You don?t have a TTY that can feed the paper in
reverse and has a
whiteout ribbon?
As an aside, somewhere I have anelectronic typewriter that uses a wide
carriage version of that ALPS ballpoint pen plotter mechanism (you know,
the one that was normally about 4" wide and turned up in the Radio Sahck
CGP115, Commodore 1520, etc). Anyway, this thing is wide enough to take
ful lA4 paper.
It has a Centronics port, and accepts the normal commands for those
little printer/plotters. In typewriter mode there are facilities ot draw
bar charts, etc.
Anyway, why I mention it is that it origianlly came with 2 sets of pens
(now, alas all dried up). One was the normal black/blue/green/red set.
The ohether incldued black and red something else that I've forgottoen
and a 'pen' of tip-es like correction fluid 'paint'. This typewriter could
delete a character by plotting over it with said white pen.
Err.. yes
-tony
8 Sep
8 Sep
4:57 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Randall Kindig <randall.kindig at gmail.com> wrote:
No TI99 or TRS-80 Model I?
Not yet. A TRS-80 Model I is sitting right here next to me on my desk but I haven't
had a chance to tackle it. I'm actually not sure how to get into BASIC if I boot into
LDOS. I also wanted to do the Model II but I haven't fixed the keyboard yet.
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5:13 p.m.
I have a Model I as well. I don't hear that anyone is working on the TI-99/4A
version. It's definitely a different dialect of BASIC. Extended BASIC is better.
Randy
On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Randall Kindig <randall.kindig at gmail.com> wrote:
No TI99 or TRS-80 Model I?
Not yet. A TRS-80 Model I is sitting right here next to me on my desk but I haven't
had a chance to tackle it. I'm actually not sure how to get into BASIC if I boot into
LDOS. I also wanted to do the Model II but I haven't fixed the keyboard yet.
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9 Sep
1:11 p.m.
Not yet. A TRS-80 Model I is sitting right here next
to me on my desk
but I haven't had a chance to tackle it. I'm actually not sure how to
get into BASIC if I boot into LDOS. I also wanted to do the Model II but
Assuming you have the full origjnal LDOS distribution, I am pretty sure
typing LBASIC will run an (enhanced) disk BASIC.
I haven't fixed the keyboard yet. >
-tony
1:37 p.m.
Is there anywhere that has a comparison of all these BASIC dialects?
--Chuck
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Not yet. A
TRS-80 Model I is sitting right here next to me on my desk
but I haven't had a chance to tackle it. I'm actually not sure how to
get into BASIC if I boot into LDOS. I also wanted to do the Model II but
Assuming you have the full origjnal LDOS distribution, I am pretty sure
typing LBASIC will run an (enhanced) disk BASIC.
I haven't fixed the keyboard yet. >
-tony
10 Sep
10 Sep
12:29 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations
Is there anywhere that has a comparison of all these
BASIC dialects?
--Chuck
I'm not sure you can call it a comparison, but there is (was?) definately a
website that lists all the different languages and includes example code
too. I forget what it is called but when I last checked it a couple of years
back there were 500+ different programming languages (including all BASIC
and assembler variants).
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
11:25 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Tuesday,
September 09, 2014 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations
vintage
computer, it works. Right now there's ports for the Apple II,
Amstrad, Atari 400/800, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 (with color
graphics!), IBM PC, MSX, and TRS-80 CoCo 3. No-one has provided a port to a
CP/M BASIC. Yet.
Don't forget the Amiga. There's quite a few different versions of BASIC for
it.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I don't think anyone but
Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
Pick a BASIC! As long as you can get the program running, and it's a
12:44 p.m.
On 09/10/2014 12:25 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
Don't forget the Amiga. There's quite a few
different versions of BASIC for
it.
Does anyone know why BillG and others dropped the "MAT" statement from
BASIC? It's documented in the 1964 description and was apparently in
fairly wide use on mainframe time-sharing systems. It's certainly part
of the late 70s games I posted over on Erik's Vintage forum.
--Chuck
1:15 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Does anyone know why BillG and others dropped the
"MAT" statement from
BASIC? It's documented in the 1964 description and was apparently in fairly
wide use on mainframe time-sharing systems.
Low amounts memory and 8-bit index registers?
It's certainly part of the late
70s games I posted over on Erik's Vintage forum.
I remember suffering through porting problems to (MS) CBM BASIC on the
4K PETs. Anything with MAT was a lot more work.
-ethan
2:05 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/10/2014 12:25 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
It's still in Pick BASIC. Used it two days ago in fact. :)
g.
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Does anyone know why BillG and others dropped the "MAT" statement from BASIC?
It's documented in the 1964 description and was apparently in fairly wide use
on mainframe time-sharing systems. It's certainly part of the late 70s games
I posted over on Erik's Vintage forum.
9 Sep
9 Sep
1:02 p.m.
All you need is a vintage computer that can run BASIC.
Like all the
BASIC Weeks before, if you've got a computer with BASIC in ROM you'll
I have a vintage compute with BASIC in ROM. In fact, one of the first
all-in-one computers with BASIC in ROM. But I can't see how it can run
this progrma (even if I add the optional String Variables, Extended I/O,
Advance Programming, etc ROMS). There is no way to sense a keypress, and
the display is a single-line upper case only one. It's an HP9830 of course.
Hang on though... An HP9830 + HP59405 HPIB interfce should eb able to
tlak to an HP1350 'Graphics Translator' That would give it a vector
display. Given you only need a couple of keys for input, perhaps a few
sense switched wired up to a parallel interface unit would do. Now tht
would be an interesting project, but not one that owuld take a week...
-tony
2:51 p.m.
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Hang on though... An HP9830 + HP59405 HPIB interfce
should eb able to
tlak to an HP1350 'Graphics Translator' That would give it a vector
display. Given you only need a couple of keys for input, perhaps a few
sense switched wired up to a parallel interface unit would do. Now tht
would be an interesting project, but not one that owuld take a week?
Is there no way to interface a terminal to it and have the BASIC send its output to the
terminal, and then read from the terminal? Then all you?d need to do is send the right
cursor codes.
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10 Sep
12:10 p.m.
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
hre are actualyl at least 3 RS232 interfaces for this machine. The 11205
is a half-duplex hardware device which could certainly be used ot drive a
terminal. The 11206 is a bit-banged one, and is pretty much useuless from
BASIC. The 11284 is a very nice hardaare device with synchronous mode too
(but good luck in finding one).
If I was to consider non-origianl hardware I could add a little circuti
to the built-in pritner interfce (Whcih is a paralell port simialr in
concept to Centronics) to output to a serial terminal.
I don't think there's any way to make the HP9830 use an external termianl
for the consle, but you can certainyl send/reciever data to a seiral port
Hang on though... An HP9830 + HP59405 HPIB
interfce should eb able to
tlak to an HP1350 'Graphics Translator' That would give it a vector
display. Given you only need a couple of keys for input, perhaps a few
sense switched wired up to a parallel interface unit would do. Now tht
would be an interesting project, but not one that owuld take a week?
Is there no way to interface a terminal to it and have the BASIC send
its output to the terminal, and then read from the terminal? Then all
you?d need to do is send the right cursor codes. from within a program (although you need an Extended
I/O ROM for many
applicaitons).
Maybe that would eb the simplest solution, althoguh it would involve
non-HP hardware i think.
-tony
17 Sep
17 Sep
12:01 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On 2014-Sep-10, at 1:10 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
After far too much work, "Under The Sea" is running on the HP9830.
Most of the work was the backwards step of porting to the primitive 9830 version of BASIC.
(I basically hate BASIC.)
For display, it's driving a VT100 terminal emulator through a tortured path:
{9830 + homebuilt plug-in I/O interface} ==> {RPi} =ethernet=> {router}
=ethernet=> {Mac/VT100 emulator}
- The RPi here is effectively just acting as an I/O adapter, doing I/O to the 9830 on a
couple of GPIO pins
and running a program doing character relaying.
- The Mac is running Terminal in VT100 mode and ssh to the pi.
The homebuilt I/O interface for these purposes appears to the 9830 as a
'general-purpose' I/O device, so original HP devices that can do character I/O
should work instead.
For input, as Tony indicated, the native 9830 firmware doesn't allow for polling the
built-in keyboard, so it would not allow game play.
To get around this, a new function was written in assembly to extend BASIC to allow
polling the external terminal keyboard, so the above output path is essentially reversed.
(It might be possible to write an assembly function to poll the internal keyboard, it
would require linking into the firmware interrupt structures.)
The Extended I/O ROM (which I don't have) has a STAT function which should provide a
similar capability to the new polling function.
So, while it was accomplished with facilities and techniques on hand, it should be
possible to make it work with original HP 9830 extensions/options, together with a
terminal capable of cursor positioning.
However - as anyone who knows the 9830 could anticipate - it is far too slow.
A screen update cycle take ~ 3 seconds, and over 4 minutes for a complete traverse of the
screen.
For speed, could rewrite it in assembly, if more giggles were desired.
On
2014-Sep-09, at 3:51 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
hre are actualyl at least 3 RS232 interfaces for this machine. The 11205
is a half-duplex hardware device which could certainly be used ot drive a
terminal. The 11206 is a bit-banged one, and is pretty much useuless from
BASIC. The 11284 is a very nice hardaare device with synchronous mode too
(but good luck in finding one).
If I was to consider non-origianl hardware I could add a little circuti
to the built-in pritner interfce (Whcih is a paralell port simialr in
concept to Centronics) to output to a serial terminal.
I don't think there's any way to make the HP9830 use an external termianl
for the consle, but you can certainyl send/reciever data to a seiral port
from within a program (although you need an Extended I/O ROM for many
applicaitons).
Maybe that would eb the simplest solution, althoguh it would involve
non-HP hardware i think. Hang on though... An HP9830 + HP59405 HPIB
interfce should eb able to
tlak to an HP1350 'Graphics Translator' That would give it a vector
display. Given you only need a couple of keys for input, perhaps a few
sense switched wired up to a parallel interface unit would do. Now tht
would be an interesting project, but not one that owuld take a week?
Is there no way to interface a terminal to it and have the BASIC send
its output to the terminal, and then read from the terminal? Then all
you?d need to do is send the right cursor codes.
12:08 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
After far too much work, "Under The Sea" is
running on the HP9830.
I sure hope you're going to share some pics & video (both here and on
http://reddit.com/r/RetroBattlestations), as well as contribute your source back into the
repo! :-)
For speed, could rewrite it in assembly, if more
giggles were desired.
There's a C version for the Apple II in the repo.
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12:19 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On 2014-Sep-17, at 1:08 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
.. right, but then we'd need to do a C compiler for the 9830 (which has been
discussed, but not fulfilled).
On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert
at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Well, I thought the contest ended on the 14th so figured I was a little late there, but
I'll see what I can do.
After far too much work, "Under The
Sea" is running on the HP9830.
I sure hope you're going to share some pics & video (both here and on
http://reddit.com/r/RetroBattlestations), as well as contribute your source back into the
repo! :-) For speed,
could rewrite it in assembly, if more giggles were desired.
There's a C version for the Apple II in the repo.
12:28 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Well, I thought the contest ended on the 14th so
figured I was a little late there, but I'll see what I can do.
You may not be able to win stickers, but you can still show off! :-)
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12:10 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On 2014-Sep-17, at 1:08 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert
at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Source, pics and video:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/HP9830/pgm/uts/
I'm not registered on reddit, I'll leave it to you (Chris) to mention it there if
you wish.
After far too much work, "Under The
Sea" is running on the HP9830.
I sure hope you're going to share some pics & video (both here and on
http://reddit.com/r/RetroBattlestations), as well as contribute your source back into the
repo! :-)
12:41 p.m.
New subject: It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations / HP9830
On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
After far too much work, "Under The Sea" is
running on the HP9830.
Source, pics and video:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/HP9830/pgm/uts/
Very impressive! The speed actually doesn't look much worse than some of the other
computers I was running it on. The only way to get it playable has been to compile the
code, seems like most of the BASIC interpreters are too slow.
I've posted it to reddit too.
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