On 2019-08-14 6:34 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. Too bad. ... It was Northcastle Structured BASIC, and here is the article I wrote on it for the TPUG Magazine: https://archive.org/details/tpug-newsletter-23/page/n21
While TPUG frowns upon distributing whole disks from its library (we still have a positive income from selling the library CD, surprisingly), I found Northcastle Structured BASIC on another disk and uploaded it here: https://archive.org/details/qs-alliance-T217 (it doesn't work in the in-browser emulation for some reason that may be my fault setting up the upload) Chris B. may be amused to see that a dedicated nerd from the Raspberry Pi forums wrote a bignum-handling massive Fibonacci number calculator for "classic" BASIC. Size of result limited only by available memory: https://github.com/ZiCog/fibo_4784969/blob/master/BASIC/classic.bas I've been spending more time with BASIC on Linux than I should recently. Some of the actually useful BASIC interpreters include: * BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 — http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcsdl/ - developed by Richard Russell, who was on the original steering committee for the language at the BBC before Acorn made the first implementation. Only really works from a GUI, but has some very whizzy 3D graphics routines (as might be expected, given Richard's work in video technology). * stardot/MatrixBrandy: Fork of Brandy BASIC V for Linux — https://github.com/stardot/MatrixBrandy - yet another BBC BASIC interpreter, but faster and lighter and under very active development. BBC BASIC has proper procedures and functions and even a very few matrix commands, as Full BASIC should. This is being developed so actively that it's the only package I auto-update via 'git pull' every day via a cron job. Just last week it grew full audio support overnight! * Bas - BASIC interpreter — http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/ - *almost* ANSI Full BASIC interpreter. Text only. Does all the MAT matrix commands as BASIC should, but doesn't implement decimal arithmetic. Can't quite manage the "10PRINT" one-line in one line, though: 10 DIM a$(2) : a$(1)="╱" : a$(2)="╲" 20 PRINT a$(2+(rnd(101)>50)); : GOTO 20 * Decimal BASIC — https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008683/english/ - full ANSI BASIC with graphics and optional decimal arithmetic. English is not the author's first language, so documentation might not be where you'd want it. cheers, Stewart