{"id":437,"date":"2010-10-17T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-10-17T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:51:55","slug":"standalone-commodore-basic-on-the-iphoneipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Standalone Commodore BASIC on the iPhone\/iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember the hassle<\/a> about the Commodore 64 emulator<\/a> in the iPhone App Store about a year ago: First it was approved, but then pulled again, because it allowed access to the C64’s BASIC – general-purpose interpreters were not allowed. After Apple relaxed this restriction, BASIC was added again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So now it fills me with joy that Ahmad Hawwash managed to get standalone Commodore BASIC into the App Store! His “Hand BASIC – CBM Flavor<\/a>” is free of charge, runs on iPhone\/iPod touch and iPad, and is based on pagetable.com’s<\/a> Open Source cbmbasic<\/a> project, a recompiled version of the original Commodore 64 binary, so the BASIC interpreter is itself not interpreted, but runs natively and at full speed, which is in the order of 500 times faster than on a C64.<\/p>\n

“Hand BASIC” has LOAD\/SAVE support and comes with several demo programs – just type LOAD\"$\",8<\/tt> and LIST<\/tt> to see them and LOAD\"NAME\",8<\/tt> and RUN<\/tt> to run them. Type the (nonstandard\/added) HIDE<\/tt> keyword to hide the keyboard.<\/p>\n

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What would be very interesting now:<\/p>\n