ZX Spectrum NextBASIC syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.
This video installation walk through is shown on a Mac but is the same process for Windows and Linux: Watch on YouTube
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and PROC
statementsDEFPROC
and DEF FN
)#autostart n
, #autoline n,m
, #program str
and custom #define key=value
(and replaces #key
instances in BASIC)#bank
and #bankfile
to auto split your code in both "run with cspect" and "export"Prerequisites:
$PATH
) (Windows version here)brew install mono
Important Windows users ensure you use the hdfmonkey build from uto.speccy.org (link above) - it's built without cygwin as a dependency.
Update nextbasic
configuration in VS Code, which requires the location of cspect.exe (yes, even on a Mac) and the Next img file.
Video explanation coming soon.
Note that using NextBASIC: run with cspect
will overwrite your autoexec.bas
file on the cspect image.
Credit to Rob Uttley for solving the autoexec and #autostart
.
Credit to @kounch for their superb original work on vscode_zx (cspect, ZEsarUX and zxbasic - BASIC to asm support)
Original syntax based specifically on the work by jsanjose - and modified to specifically support NextBASIC.