Cybearg Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I hope that you're still working on this, PixelBoy. I'd love to see BasicVision released! I skimmed the document and it looks very intuitive and convenient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 I haven't done anything with the BasicVision project yet. Maybe next year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I haven't done anything with the BasicVision project yet. Maybe next year... I just had deja vu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I hope that you're still working on this, PixelBoy. I'd love to see BasicVision released! I skimmed the document and it looks very intuitive and convenient. Pretty much your best bet is to subvert newcolecos C devkit to parse BASIC ala BCX or support nitrofuranos effort to port ZX Basic to various platforms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybearg Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Pretty much your best bet is to subvert newcolecos C devkit to parse BASIC ala BCX or support nitrofuranos effort to port ZX Basic to various platforms. If it's already a stretch to compile C/BASIC into Assembly due to memory/size inefficiencies, I assume the problem would only be compounded if you convert BASIC to C, then C to Assembly, then Assembly to machine code. That's an awful lot of conversions for a low-spec system like Coleco. More likely I'll just have to use C with a bit of Assembly if I want to get into it. I just like the convenience and readability of BASIC when it comes to these older systems. Part of the reason may be because sample code tends to be written uber-efficiently with minimalist documentation, making it difficult to understand what's going on with C, while it's easier to follow BASIC at a glance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrofurano Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) Pretty much your best bet is to subvert newcolecos C devkit to parse BASIC ala BCX or support nitrofuranos effort to port ZX Basic to various platforms. yes, PixelBoy! consider following all efforts about ZX Basic, and perhaps pick/share some ideas from there if needed - in the meanwhile i could do something for around 25 z80-based arcade machines, and recently i did something for Casio PV1000 console (a rare one, having only 15 classic titles available, and quite fun to code on) - http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs#OTHER_HARDWARE Edited January 12, 2015 by nitrofurano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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