Samuel Pedigo Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Just did a graphics demo in Graham Bland's MSX Programming book (page 137) on Archive.com using BlueMSX. First and last words out of my mind? Holy shit. going to make this my primary dev platform for the time being Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 The syntax looks the same as Extended Color Basic on the TRS-80 COLOR COMPUTER. LINE, CIRCLE, PAINT, DRAW, SCREEN, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocFlareon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It makes sense, since both machines used Microsoft's interpreter. Does MSX Basic use a screen editor, or a line editor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 The MSX has a full screen editor. I'm not sure how similar the BASIC dialects are. Even if they're all derivates of Microsoft, extensions for sound and graphics tend to be unique for each computer. The commands may have the same names but different syntax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Pedigo Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Then why doesn't open "grp": a$ #1 work. and yes, i typed in the full listing from Graham Blands book MSX programming Program 8.21 page 145 i start up BlueMSX but all i get is Disk basic regardless of the model used. any ideas. and yes i tried to download a Japanese basic kun rom. no luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyBoss Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 as not a$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyBoss Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 by the way, MSX had one of the best BASICs around, its easy to make graphics and sprites, even have music commands. If there just was a compiler version it could be cool, I know there was some compiler you could load, but it will not allow all the commands. So you had to turn on and off the compiler in your basic program, i think it was called xbasic and turn on and off by call turbo on or call speed on, I never found that compiler to usefull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrag Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 can you post a video or a gif of what get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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