Basic Extensions / HiBasic... eg. While - Endwhile

tom-seddon / basic_editor

Updated version of Acornsoft's BASIC Editor for the BBC Micro

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Basic Extensions / HiBasic... eg. While - Endwhile #20

Closed Andrewcee closed 1 year ago

Andrewcee commented 3 years ago

Hi Folks,

Thanks for an excellent tool!

With PiTube co-pros readily and cheaply available for the beeb, have started experimenting with HiBasic and Advanced Basic so as to take advantage of the likes of While/Endwhile. Does the Basic Editor recognise the 'new' keywords? Using 1.45 it looks to change While to 'LOADACS' and Endwhile to 'EDIT'?

Thanks, Andrew

tom-seddon commented 1 year ago

I'll update the docs with a note about this! I'm afraid the BASIC Editor only supports the following Acorn 6502 BASICs:

BASIC II
BASIC III (original 6502 HIBASIC)
BASIC IV (BASIC on Master 128/Master Compact)

New keywords provided by 3rd party BASICs aren't supported, nor are any of the new tokens in BASIC V (BASIC on the Archimedes). There's not all that much room left in the ROM at this point, so It's rather unlikely this will change.