Timeline for New 6502 BASICs?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 25, 2019 at 2:19 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2019 at 23:52 | answer | added | Chromatix | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 31, 2018 at 22:23 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | Oh yes, TURBO did this too. | |
| May 31, 2018 at 11:15 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @MauryMarkowitz Not cashing, but kind of compiling. When the program gets started (RUN or CONT) the 'compiler' part parses thru the programm and adds the memory address of each GOTO/GOSUB target in to the statement - the editor keeps two bytes space for this. THey are by default filled with FF to detect un'compiled' ones (Originally this was used to 'compile' on the fly, which may be used as well to speed up startup). Whenever a line got edited (i.e. during break) it's address got noted down and CONT did 'recompile' all targets beyond that (starting form line 1). | |
| May 31, 2018 at 10:30 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | @Raffzahn - by "linked", do you mean caching the return/goto addresses? Or something else? | |
| May 31, 2018 at 2:30 | answer | added | user2388107 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 30, 2018 at 20:40 | comment | added | RichF | For anyone else who was wondering, True Basic seems to never have been available for 6502 and other 8-bit processors. It apparently started on the 16-bit machines. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 19:53 | answer | added | snips-n-snails | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 30, 2018 at 19:12 | answer | added | Brian H | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 30, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Raffzahn | EH-Basic ofc. Then again, BBC Basic is already quite good. I still have some BASIC I did for the Apple II, trying new ways - like INC and DEC instructions and native Interger handling, but most important linked GOTO/GOSUB to speed up of the usual BASIC Spaghetti style. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 17:08 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 30, 2018 at 16:25 | answer | added | Will Hartung | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 30, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | I'm looking for existing BASICs that have interesting ideas. FastBasic is an example, it's a p-code system instead of a "pure" interpreter and thus offers dramatic performance improvements.I think that's fascinating on it's own, but it still manages to run on an Atari. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 14:52 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | I'm sure there are. Are you asking for actually extant examples, or for hypothetical "this might be a good idea to do" type answers? | |
| May 30, 2018 at 14:46 | history | asked | Maury Markowitz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |