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EHBASIC 2.10+0.8.7 refresh: the more I try to write about it the more I prove what a doofus I am.
- Subject: EHBASIC 2.10+0.8.7 refresh: the more I try to write about it the more I prove what a doofus I am.
- From: lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:25:59 +0000 (UTC)
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Dunno if the last post made it through, but I forgot to mention a url for
this:
http://usotsuki.info/eh210p8_v087ref1.zip
This has everything the original v0.8.7 disk had on it, plus:
* Improved initialization of the RNG on Brian's Theme, Lemonade Stand and
Little Brick Out.
* Brought back the LCSTRINGS file.
* Added a file, VECSUPP, that loads into the reserved space between the
actual top of BASIC and the bottom of its buffers, enabling something like
the DRAW/XDRAW commands from fpbasic. This is described in the readme and
contains an A65 with the source.
Most likely, this will be the last version of the .SYSTEM file. I have the
hooks in the code so that I can rewrite it to add the ON ERROR stuff later;
I'm probably not going to be able to add it myself.
Remember - it is a LOT like fpbasic, but it isn't fpbasic. There's a few
gotchas to beware of. First and foremost, if you enter the monitor, use
Ctrl-Y (not Ctrl-C) to return to BASIC. Ctrl-C will put you in fpbasic and
fpbasic will find a strange, alien zero page, and crash back into the
monitor. Also remember that file commands are a part of BASIC, not
something hung on the side, and interface with it quite differently than you
might expect (unless you've used GW-BASIC).
-uso.