Comments on: Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows – now Open Source

By: Blackjack Blog

Blackjack Blog — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:56:41 +0000

I think the Versions of GW BASIC for Windows and Linux would be great to,
The old languages are makes them quicker to learn, Anyone using more static languages, such as C and C++, will be used to attaching debuggers to running programs.

By: Al Boyanich

Al Boyanich — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:30:14 +0000

This is so hot. My SGI Irix machine now is able to run legacy CBM BASIC much faster than in VICE. Now, how do I peek and poke the CRiMe graphics on my O2 ?

By: MiaM

MiaM — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:15:24 +0000

Ric:

Isn’t it possible to run GWBASIC.EXE directly under Windows? (at least on 32-bit windows)

By: Ric

Ric — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:35:58 +0000

Versions of GWBASIC for Windows and Linux would be great too. I havnt got a clue how to do that myself. I love the simplicity of the old languages – makes them quicker to learn and use for the occassional programmer. A dBase language would be another contender for this treatment, since I’ve been searching for something I can use to create simple databases without success. Thanks very much for making this available.

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:35 +0000

You mean the 68000. And probably also the 6800 series, also from Motorola.

By: David M Williams

David M Williams — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:15:02 +0000

The 6510 processor was NOT by Motorola! You’re thinking of the 65000 which was used in Macintoshes and the Amiga.

The 6510 was from MOS semiconductor, who Commodore bought and owned. Ironically, the Apple II and the Atari 2600 used the 6502 processor and had to buy them from Commodore.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:42:34 +0000

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StooBlog v0.1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:12:56 +0000

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By: MagerValp

MagerValp — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:28:34 +0000

Either way the 6510 is 100% compatible with the 6502, as it uses the same CPU die. The only difference is the added 6-bit I/O register and tristate logic.

By: Curt Woodard

Curt Woodard — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:34:16 +0000

OK, I am thinking assembler…my bad :)

By: Curt Woodard

Curt Woodard — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:33:05 +0000

You are aware that the Commodore 64 used the Motorola 6510 processor, correct? It was the Vic-20 that used the 6502. Can you be sure that this is 100% compatible with the Commodore 64’s version of basic?

By: Allan Higgins

Allan Higgins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:27:30 +0000

Turn CAPS LOCK on to aviod syntax errors.
C64 manuals can be found here:

http://www.lemon64.com/manual/

http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Commodore/C64/Programmers_Reference/page_iii.html

-Allan

By: LarryG

LarryG — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:28:31 +0000

I’m able to run cbmbasic scripts but can anyone tell me how to run code in direct mode?
All I get is syntax errors.

By: dholm.com » Blog Archive » Tumblelog: 090112

dholm.com » Blog Archive » Tumblelog: 090112 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:31:17 +0000

[...] Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows – now Open Source, Michael Steil over at pagetable has statically recompiled and modified Commodore’s original BASIC so that it can be used as a scripting language in UNIX and Windows. [...]

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Un par de emuladores retro | FACIL TUTORIALES — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:21:08 +0000

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By: marco

marco — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:37:48 +0000

Zuruck in die Zukunft mit c64! Eureka!!

By: El basic del Commodore 64, en el PC

El basic del Commodore 64, en el PC — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:01:12 +0000

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Re-run Your First Program with Commodore BASIC [Friday Fun] | Techno Portal — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:09:00 +0000

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By: Unix Basic

Unix Basic — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:23:16 +0000

Basic unix Scripts

http://java-j2ee-interview-questions2.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-write-unix-scripts.html

By: kamakaze.org » Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:10:32 +0000

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Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language Open Source | Gioorgi.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:26:51 +0000

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By: Open Source Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language « Wiz And Chips

Open Source Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language « Wiz And Chips — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:48:08 +0000

[...] as a Scripting Language 17 11 2008 On October 28th Michael Steil announced on his blog Pagetable the release of Commodore BASIC as a scripting language for Linux, Windows and Mac (OS X 10.4/10.5 [...]

By: KindlyRat

KindlyRat — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:10:07 +0000

I must report that GW-BASIC is still being used, runs on any Windows platform and is available free at:
http://www.geocities.com/KindlyRat

By: El blog de Miguel » Commodore BASIC como lenguaje de script para Linux, Mac y Windows

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:40:29 +0000

[...] Pagetable ha publicado un programa que trae de vuelta el mitico lenguaje BASIC de ordenadores de Commodore como es el Commodore 64, a nuestro sistema actual. El programa es multiplataforma, de código abierto y está diponible para Linux, MacOS X y Windows. Y lo mas importante, te permite usarlo como un lenguaje de scripting en tu sistema. [...]

By: Oisín

Oisín — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:59:49 +0000

Where did you get the idea to use CBM basic for scripting on a modern OS? The first computer I ever had was a C64, when I was about 8 years old in 1990. I started learning to program, but never really got the knack for it until I discovered GFA Basic for my next computer, an Atari ST, a couple of years later.
I quickly came to feel that C64 basic sucked horribly, was inexpressive, hard-to-use and unfriendly – at least compared to GFA (not having line numbers was another nice thing :)).

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By: Gerald Brandt » Weekly Links 20081109

Gerald Brandt » Weekly Links 20081109 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:49:45 +0000

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By: Scott Houdek

Scott Houdek — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:39:55 +0000

It also lack of a user manual for this type interpreter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Scott Houdek

Scott Houdek — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:33:07 +0000

Wow, what a great idea!, but do i have to do a lot of “poke” and “peek” to get high resolution graphics and sound?:)

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By: KindlyRat

KindlyRat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:21:27 +0000

my standard test of a BASIC is to run a for/next loop and then print the counter number. on this Basic I get a strange printed thingy after each print. try it

10 FOR N = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT N
30 NEXT N

By: hukares

hukares — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:54:48 +0000

i hope further improvements can be done on this BASIC. like having to support GUI. :D

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By: Jason Grant

Jason Grant — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:22:47 +0000

Amazing stuff. I started learning programming on C-64, so this is incredibly emotional thing to see implemented. Well done.

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Dew Drop - November 5, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:22:19 +0000

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By: Swiz

Swiz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:37:33 +0000

Is there a way to quit infinite loops and go back to the interpreter? I’m afraid my PC’s keyboard lacks RUN/STOP.

By: Olivier Tigreat

Olivier Tigreat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:32:12 +0000

Michael: your “recompiler” and your words about your work related to Amiga programs really impresses me! I would like to know more about it. Precisely I would like to know in what extend it could be ported to AROS which could provide almost all native functions as it reimplements original libraries from scratch (and that means it’s not limited to dos and exec). And what about recompiling third-party #?.library #?.device and so on? What do you think? Am I only dreaming?

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:07:19 +0000

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By: Wayne McDougall

Wayne McDougall — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:50:29 +0000

I am very impressed but miss TI and TI$.

It shouldn’t be too hard to implement, and would mean timing loops using TI would work correctly.

I love Jiffies.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:55:13 +0000

WOW, very nice. Looking forward to this evolving and doing some “machine language”

Load the Accumulator!

By: Jonz

Jonz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:28:43 +0000

Now if you can figure out how to read my old 5.25″ floppies that failed to read because my floppy reader was “out of alignment” you’d be my hero!\

Long live C-64!

By: Michael Steil

Michael Steil — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:48:53 +0000

@mafutha: Please read earlier posts.

By: mafutha

mafutha — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:41:30 +0000

Is there a possibility that we could see a version of amiga basic also? But This is wonderful; just to run old C-64 programs.

By: Michael Steil

Michael Steil — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:33:54 +0000

@Bob: You could change CHRIN() in runtime.c to make all input uppercase, but then you would lose the possibility to use lowercase in strings. Another idea would be to swap upper case and lower case on both CHRIN() and CHROUT() – so keywords would have to be lower case, but BASIC would preserve the case.

Commodore BASIC had hooks for external extensions in the tokenizer, detokenizer and interpreter; I’m thinking about providing these hooks to runtime.c. :-)

By: dumpendebat

dumpendebat — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:24:49 +0000

This is just incredibly cool. Thanks!!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:24:33 +0000

It seems like this is CASE SENSITIVE and all BASIC commands have to be in CAPS! Is there an easy way to change this?

thanks!