VirtualBasic and Oric

[Hialmar]

We are organizing an Apple Festival this summer and a guy will come and present Virtual Basic.

It's a pre-processor that let's you code Basic in a modern way (without line numbers) and then converts it to standard AppleSoft Basic.

AppleSoft Basic being a Microsoft Basic like ours it could be ported to the Oric.

Here is the website about this:
http://virtualbasic.org/

I will try to port this ASAP.

I have noted in the code of bas2tap that such a thing was intended but never was completed (or was it ?).

Anyway I just wanted to share this

[iss]

Sometime ago I found Magic Gosub which allows to use GOTO and GOSUB with 'text labels' instead of line numbers. It can work together with Slammer! which uses REM to store data and machine code. These are for Apple ][ too.

Else VirtualBasic looks very interesting indeed and powerful. Thanks for the info!

[christian]

Something like Magic Gosub was published in Theoric #29 pages 40-43.
Here is a tap file with BASIC loader and test (Atmos version)

The test part:

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  30 CLS
  40 INPUT "Numero de menu ";N
  50 ON N GOSUB "MENU1","MENU2","MENU3"
  60 GOTO 40
 100 ' "MENU1"
 110 PRINT "Menu1":RETURN
 120 ' "MENU2"
 130 PRINT "Menu2":RETURN
 140 ' "MENU3"
 150 PRINT "Menu3":RETURN

[christian]

And here is a link to Theoric #29 french magazine

[Hialmar]

Nice I will look at this.

Virtual Basic offers other interesting features like code blocks, automatic compression of code and the like.

[maximus]

With ORIC we have no choice it's BASIC or ASM, so for me it's BASIC of course

This virtual BASIC seems really easy to use, without numbers of line you change our life

In the homepage it's only question of APPLE II

do you think it's possible to use BAS2TAP from this APLLE CODE ?

[Dbug]

With ORIC we have no choice it's BASIC or ASM, so for me it's BASIC of course

And C, and Forth and LOGO, and probably a bunch of other languages

This virtual BASIC seems really easy to use, without numbers of line you change our life
do you think it's possible to use BAS2TAP from this APLLE CODE ?

Implementing that in Bas2Tap is doable, or you could use Wascol's tool which generated basic with numbers from labels.

[maximus]

Wouch such hard languages for me

where is this Waskol's tool ?

[Dbug]

You can get the program here:
http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/ ... ls2Num.exe

And (because I forgot to remove it) here is an example program that uses a compatible syntax:
http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/ ... omberZ.bas

[maximus]

Labels2num.exe

après avoir conrt circuité les soucis de sécurité de windows, rien à faire il ne se lance pas, même en mode de compatibilité XP

il faut dosbox ?

[Hialmar]

After searching for something like this I stumbled on this thread that I created and completely forgot.

In fact this should be directly usable with our computer.

I have tested the examples and they work just fine.

I will test with more complex programs and will keep you posted (unless I forget this again).

Edit: there are some problems with unrecognized Basic functions. I'll try to modify this ASAP.

[Dbug]

If you look at the episode of Upgrade Time I published last Sunday, you'll see that I'm not far from releasing a new version of Bas2Tap that natively handles labels, without any memory or performance penalty compared to native line numbers

I even mention Maximus in it

[Hialmar]

Nice

With all this I may try to code in Basic again

[maximus]

I'm not far from releasing a new version of Bas2Tap that natively handles labels, without any memory or performance penalty compared to native line numbers

Hey that sound is good

I even mention Maximus in it

the last man on earth coding in BASIC ?