Re: ZBasic

["John" <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

On Jan 20, 6:32 pm, "magnusfalkirk" <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was looking through the stuff I downloaded from the Asimov archive
> and noticed a copy of ZBasic among the stuff in the unsorted folder. I
> booted the disk image in an emulator on my Mac and discovered it's the
> Prodos version, for 128k machines and the version for 64k machines. I
> was thinking about transferring it to a real disk using ADTPro, but I
> had one question before I waste a disk. Has anyone ever used this to
> write a program for the Apple II and if so what do you think of it.
> I've also got all the documentation for it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dean

ZBASIC is very good. The Atree author liked it. I think he said the
edit-run cycle  bogs down a lot with larger programs.

There are version for the TRS-80, CP/M, and MSDOS(?), at least. It was
the first time I had seem variable precision math, & virtual
resolution graphics. Nice online help, too. You can get started just
from that, the manual was on Asimov IIRC.