Comments on: Apple I BASIC as a Mac OS X Scripting Language

By: zoodg

zoodg — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:54:04 +0000

Another person for a port to PPC, please?

By: mdrobot

mdrobot — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:32:08 +0000

Is there any chance of the Apple BASIC being ported to windows, like cbmbasic was? It rocks!

By: B Yates

B Yates — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:25:06 +0000

Ok, how about a version of TI Extended Basic?
Please?
*THAT* was a powerful Basic!

By: Tweets for Today « Zone Arbitrage

Tweets for Today « Zone Arbitrage — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:47:18 +0000

[...] Apple I BASIC as a native script interpreter on Mac OS X — http://www.pagetable.com/?p=35 [...]

By: CyberSkull

CyberSkull — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:56:11 +0000

Nifty, but I’m running PPC, not Intel at home. :(

By: cory

cory — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:35:28 +0000

gettin’ bus error when I try to run as well. on an intel (macbook).

By: Quang

Quang — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:36:37 +0000

Wow! This is an awesome idea. Commore 64 was my first computer and I loved it. I used to write quite a few simple programs on it. Let’s PEEK, POKE, and SYS

By: pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:52:35 +0000

[...] A while back, I released Apple I BASIC and Commodore BASIC as a scripting language for Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel. It did not work on any other OS or on a different CPU type. [...]

By: MiaM

MiaM — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:01:16 +0000

I’m also asking nicely for PPC binaries. Please?

By: Lord Doomicus

Lord Doomicus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:03:12 +0000

The ‘apple1basic’ program works fine, everything works as it should, as a script, and non-interactively. But, for some reason, the cbmbasic program only works interactively. When I try to run it as part of a script, it simply does nothing.

I’d love to have the source for this.

Then again, cbm basic for the C=64 is well documented. It seems like it should not be too hard for a good ‘c’ programmer to just write an implementation that would be portable.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:59:10 +0000

I love it. Are you generating assembly or using some intermediate representation like C? How portable would the resulting code be? Since you’re using POSIX IO, could you easily emit code for other IA32 (or amd64) POSIX systems or even portably for all POSIX systems? I’d love to run these, but am not a Mac user.

By: pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:11:25 +0000

[...] all of Microsoft BASIC only depends on the CPU, makes no other assumptions on the hardware it runs on (be it Commodore, Apple, Atari, …), [...]

By: SJS

SJS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:42:38 +0000

+1 for a PPC port … please!

BTW, my Dad has a very old gwbasic script that he wants me to update. Will this apple1basic run a gwbasic script? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?

:-)
sjs

By: Navnita

Navnita — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:28:44 +0000

i want a gw basic application (downloadable, free) for my mac os x

By: Jon Biddell

Jon Biddell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:25:28 +0000

This brings back some old and SCARY memories of programming PDP 11/45′s back in the 1970′s.

By: Muscai Cristi

Muscai Cristi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:14:30 +0000

Hello ! I love Basic, I used ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, PC XT, 286,386,486,P1,PII,PIII and P4 lots of Basics, GWBasic,QBasic, Visual Basic 1,4,6 and .NET and now Real Basic on My Power Mac G4@1.5 Ghz.
I need to use this script basic for PPC (becouse I love my Mac)and I want to make some script for it !! please ! if you will make some ppc versions please send me an E-mail.

By: Alex SchrĂśder

Alex SchrĂśder — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:54:18 +0000

Awesome idea. Too bad I’m also getting the “Bus error” mentioned above on my 10.4.11 Mac Mini.

By: Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:22:11 +0000

The random number generator isn’t seeded differently per run, so you always get the same values. How did it work on the original hardware?

] cat random.bas
#!/usr/bin/env apple1basic
10 FOR I=1 TO 100
20 PRINT RND(100);” “;
30 NEXT I
40 PRINT
50 END
]
] ./random.bas
56 72 81 92 2 80 60 31 56 80 68 7 43 20 48 4 49 94 60 54 20 2 79 4 35 22 26 16 36 32 41 82 1 36 30 11 8 59 85 24 34 29 28 24 21 1 39 30 56 28 48 42 97 65 75 15 73 76 41 12 52 12 69 43 91 99 40 67 59 94 69 57 9 34 92 56 61 84 34 77 35 6 14 7 68 83 44 26 2 28 81 13 72 75 7 36 30 59 47 50
]
] ./random.bas
56 72 81 92 2 80 60 31 56 80 68 7 43 20 48 4 49 94 60 54 20 2 79 4 35 22 26 16 36 32 41 82 1 36 30 11 8 59 85 24 34 29 28 24 21 1 39 30 56 28 48 42 97 65 75 15 73 76 41 12 52 12 69 43 91 99 40 67 59 94 69 57 9 34 92 56 61 84 34 77 35 6 14 7 68 83 44 26 2 28 81 13 72 75 7 36 30 59 47 50

By: Rhyre

Rhyre — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:58:15 +0000

Nice thesis – please add me to the list of people asking nicely for source code.

Remember, this whole thing (Apple) started by taking advantage of Woz’ willingness to share.
It’s only fair to make your ‘Apple I BASIC interpreter’ available in source, so those of us who
run Linux or PowerPC processors can benefit.

Other folks wrote “open letters” to people who shared their BASIC interpreters.

- Ralph

By: Eric3

Eric3 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:22:48 +0000

With a MacBook with 10.4, both BASIC binaries give me “Bus error” when I try them. Any ideas?

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:50:02 +0000

hah what a brilliant idea, just makes me wish I could actually understand basic to be able to make something cool with it

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:18:32 +0000

Asking nicely for PPC binaries… please?

By: Claudio Carlquist

Claudio Carlquist — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:22:27 +0000

Very cool! I’d love to have it under Linux. Is it opensourced or do you have any plan on porting it to Linux? Indeed, very well done!

By: Jeffzilla » Blog Archive » Writing My First Program…Again.

Jeffzilla » Blog Archive » Writing My First Program…Again. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:07:49 +0000

[...] on pagetable.com, they managed to pull the original Apple I Basic off of its uber-old school cassette tape, and re-compile a working version of the code. And… [...]

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:14:26 +0000

Thanks for the link to this thesis, very interesting.

By: devnull

devnull — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:01:09 +0000

Nice one! Will try out the binary.

By: Michael Steil

Michael Steil — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:48:29 +0000

@Evan: The binaries posted are Intel-only for now, sorry. If you ask nicely, I’ll target PowerPC, too. :-)

By: Evan Donovan

Evan Donovan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:03:00 +0000

When I tried copying this to my /usr/local/bin & running it I got the following error message:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/apple1basic: cannot execute binary file

I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11. Does this program only work on 10.5?