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Re: Apple lle and BASIC

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, winston19842005 wrote:


On 3/26/11 2:30 PM, in article
alpine.DEB.2.00.1103261427480.24955@midnightmarauder.localdomain, "Steve
Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:


Kindasorta.  If it doesn't use Apple-specific stuff, it usually isn't that
difficult to translate.  The IBM dialect is fairly closely related to
Apple's (both were written by Microsoft) so if you know both dialects
(fpbasic and gwbasic) you can usually translate basic stuff from the Apple
to the PC.  If it uses PEEK, POKE or CALL though...


Hmm... of the old systems, I'd say Applesoft BASIC isn't "fairly close" to
either IBM BASIC(A) or other Microsoft BASIC's.
It was close enough that I picked it up pretty quick. Applesoft *is* a Microsoft dialect and apart from it being hacked to support some isms from Integer BASIC it's still compatible with straight MS BASICs. 


Others would fall in the middle somewhere, like Atari BASIC. It is close,
but the strings are a little weird.
I'm led to understand that Atari BASIC is essentially a rewrite of Wozniak's BASIC. (Shares an author with DOS 3.3, as I recall!) It does have microsoftisms though. 

Another interesting dialect is HuBASIC 3 for the Famicom.

-uso.