Re: AppleSoft compiler

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 399F7D80.2AE5D3B7@lbl.gov, Edward Berry at eaberry@lbl.gov wrote
on 8/19/00 11:41 PM:

> Just to add to the confusion- Z-BASIC was a dialect of MS-BASIC available
> for Zenith S-100 computers just before the IBM PC was born!

That's true, it is derived from the older forms of Microsoft BASIC, although
it's substantially more advanced.  There were versions of ZBASIC for several
platforms, and they were, by and large, source-compatible, with only a few
specialized commands among the various systems.

Most interesting was a custom graphics coordinate system, by which you could
use coordinates like 1000,350 and it would scale those values to whatever
the resolution of the screen your program is running on, so that the same
code would draw the same shapes in the same relative positions on the
screen, no matter what system the code has been compiled on.  Actually
pretty clever.


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