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Retrogamecoding(.org) => Announcements => Topic started by: Cybermonkey on March 21, 2013, 01:56:04 PM

Title: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 21, 2013, 01:56:04 PM
Hi guys in the attachment you'll find the very first release of the Chipmonkey BASIC interpeter for Win32 (Linux and Haiku will follow soon). As you might guess (because of the name) it is based on Chipmunk BASIC 1.0 by David Gillespie. A documentation is part of the ZIP file as well as my newly introduced functions/statements are explained at the end of the doc.
It's a classical BASIC which uses line numbers and all programs are console mode only. It will only be available in 32 bit since the original source uses Assembler which isn't portable to 64 bit. Anyway it works fine on 64 bit operating systems for now.
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 21, 2013, 03:50:35 PM
And here's the Linux and the Haiku version.
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 22, 2013, 04:59:20 PM
Mac OS X ...
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Tomaaz on March 22, 2013, 08:49:37 PM
Really old-school. 8) I like the interface. ;)
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Tomaaz on March 22, 2013, 09:00:02 PM
Would it be possible to compile Raspberry Pi version?
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 22, 2013, 09:56:02 PM
Would it be possible to compile Raspberry Pi version?
Sorry, no, because it uses 32 bit INTEL assembler ... I have no clue about ASM, I wasn't even able to port it to 64 bit ASM (even with help from others).
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Tomaaz on March 23, 2013, 12:35:33 PM
I've read on bp.org forum that you're planning to add file handling functions. I guess it's not gonna be any graphics, but maybe I'm wrong? I really love this old-school BASICs, even if they are pretty useless nowadays. :)
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 23, 2013, 05:10:52 PM
Yes, I love them, too. But graphics functions are not planned at the moment.
Title: Re: Chipmonkey BASIC 0.1
Post by: Cybermonkey on March 24, 2013, 10:04:29 PM
A temporarily website for Chipmonkey BASIC is now on: http://cmb.retrogamecoding.org/