RC Basic Video Series

[n00b]

I started doing a video series on programming with RC Basic.  The link is here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIUOwQ2sQmXLJOTCZ6w5XWsI5uesbUGbG

My goal is to eventually start covering some graphics techniques like tile scrolling and alpha blending but right now I am just doing videos on beginner topics.

[B+]

n00b, This video series is very commendable!

I will have to check out RC Basic because I already know SdlBasic (a little) and you can do things that SmallBASIC can't (yet) (plus it's free!).

Let me guess, you (RC Basic) don't do single line IF THEN either.    (yet?)

[n00b]

Thanks for the feedback B+. I don't have single line IF THEN.  I wrote the parser completely from scratch myself so I didn't have an established BASIC parser to build on.  I think sdlbasic uses the parser from wxbasic so it has a more advanced parser that can handle parsing multiple lines on a single line.  But even with this limitation you can still do pretty much anything in RC Basic you can do with sdlbasic. I will post some sdlbasic demos I converted to show a comparison of the 2 dialects side by side when I get home.  The biggest difference between the 2 is that sdlbasic is a source code interpreter and RC Basic code must be compiled to byte code which is run by a virtual machine kinda like java does.

[ZXDunny]

I think sdlbasic uses the parser from wxbasic so it has a more advanced parser that can handle parsing multiple lines on a single line.

That's not a limitation on your part - that's a limitation for sdlbasic. You rolled your own parser and interpreter? Then it can do whatever you want it to. That's why I wrote all of SpecBAS from scratch - it does what I want it to do, and isn't limited by lex/yacc or other "premade" parsing/interpretation libraries. If you want single-line IF, then get to it - it's pretty easy when you know the code inside out.

[n00b]

I did not mean to imply I couldn't do it.  I was simply stating that as of right now my parser is not as advanced as some of the other BASIC dialects on this forum.  I fully intend to expand it in time.  Right now my sole focus is on porting to linux.  I have got it to compile but I have been getting a bunch of segmentation faults and other crazy bugs.  I think I can have it up in another month at the latest.

[n00b]

I posted that demo I said I would post on the sdlbasic forum.

[B+]

Yes, one liner IF THEN hardly rates on the TO DO list with Linux as next aim to get up and running!

I think people might want a Find and Find/Replace in editor before one liner IF THEN.

And what's with the tiny print in output screens, it seems it is last on all developer's lists. 

Kudos for Cut, Copy, Paste!

[n00b]

I actually wanted to add find/replace from the beginning.  I am still in the process of learning more about wxWidgets.  They are on my TODO list and I might be able to get some help with the editor so hopefully soon.