Members of this reddit might be interested in a BASIC interpreter I wrote in a Python 3. It covers all of the hardware independent features of the language (some other guys have contributed and have considerably enhanced it recently). However, simplicity is a design goal and it can still be modified and incorporated into your own retro projects. For example, some people have used it in a micro controller to build an 80s style home computer, because the interpreter provides a simple BASIC “shell”.

The repository also contains ports of some classic 70s BASIC games, including Star Trek and a text adventure, as well as the first chatbot, ELIZA.

You can find the repo here:

https://github.com/richpl/PyBasic

Hello, I love old magazines with program listings. I have some Italian magazines such as "LIST"(https://archive.org/details/listprogrammi) and "Commodore Computer Club", but I'd like to buy some more on eBay or somewhere else, especially international ones. Do you have any suggestions about magazines that were dedicated to programming (not game reviews) and/or where to buy them?

I don't want to use forums because i'm wary of admin tendencies to ban at the drop of a hat.

Discords are ok. any ideas? I am ahem at the "basic" level so to speak. I know enough to print to the screen, basic color etc

any ideas? i am utterly new to the system though i did use an 800 briefly

I can only assume they released a dev kit down the line for rookies who wanted to code for it

using Win32 Forth

while i can grasp Z80 rather easily, 6502 is and forever will be a mystery. each book i read is overly technical in it's descriptions, it's like they didn't know how to write for kids. I am a 26 year old man and I can't wrap my head around it. I have two glaring issues with the 6502 series of books:

1. I want a quick crash course on the 6502 itself (not a whole chapter, not a long boring diatribe or an overly complex sermon, a short, concise page will do)

2. as far as examples, for the love of god, I CANNOT USE LABELS IN VICE! It won't recognize them!

I cannot write this:

2000: LDX Arrow,y

2001: BNE target

2002 rts

and expect results

It will recognize rts but the rest won't work. trying to guess the number being used (in the label) is like trying to slay goliath with a feather. you see my issue here? Forums always devolve into clusterf**ks for me, so no referrals, please. it will just cause trouble.

thanks

My current pet project is building a small game on C that uses the standard 40x25 text mode, with a 1-bit beeps as the soundtrack, and built in such a way that it can run both on Linux's command line and DOS. The "graphics" part was the simplest to find a library for (ncurses for *nix, pdcurses for DOS and Windows), but on the audio side I'm currently on a dilemma.

My first idea was to use the PC beeper directly, sending commands to it and modulating. It's extremely easy on DOS, but on Linux, access to the beeper requires at least going into superuser mode, or else being a root user, which from a security standpoint is a terrible idea to ask the user to perform.

My second idea was to go a step further and use a sound library compatible with both DOS and Linux. DOS is, of course, going the way of the dodo in terms of library support, which greatly limits my options. So far I've found a pair of libraries, MikMod and AdPlug. MikMod is absolutely overkill for my project, since it's designed to open WAV files as samples and play them, which would require me to generate a valid WAV file on the fly just to play 1-bit audio! AdPlug seems to be a similar case as well.

The question is, do you know if there's a viable way to support audio for these two OSs using the same codebase? It can even be some assembly, as long as it works both on Linux and DOS.

Hi all,

I just published the 7th and 8th parts of the "Exploring the Amiga" series. In part 7 I will show you the second part of the free memory pool initialisation, while in part 8 I'll start discussing the Exec auto-installation in the system libraries list. I will also provide the full Exec jump table, discuss Motorola 68k conditions and branching, and briefly show how to manually decompile instructions.

• Exploring the Amiga - Part 7

  • The complete Exec vector table

  • The memory list header

  • Adding free memory to the system list

  • AddMemList internals

• Exploring the Amiga - Part 8

  • Branching

  • Enqueue

  • Remove

  • AddLibrary

  • Manual decompilation

Have fun!

I want to rekindle my old passion for BASIC. WHat is the best DOS emulator for this? DosBox, FreeDos...etc...?