BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
The primary purpose of this project is to reproduce the overall experience provided by the original GW-BASIC (Microsoft Corporation circa 1983-1988); preserving this important chapter in computing history and making it available for future generations to enjoy.
Features:
* Faithful recreation of the original GW-BASIC 'IDE' (REPL).
* Full support for graphics keywords such as PSET, LINE, CIRCLE, PAINT, GET, PUT and DRAW
* Full support for CGA and EGA graphics modes including original fonts.
* Full support for all File I/O keywords.
* Uses isolated (local) storage to create a virtualized C: file system.
* File 'browser' for file management (LOAD, CHDIR, RMDIR, KILL, etc.).
* Completely functional regardless of network connection.
* Supports Portrait and Landscape.
* Much, much, more..
Still to come..
* Continue to improve interactive experience through the touch-centric Phone UI.
* PLAY commands.
* Easily share code with fellow coders; so get started now if you'd like to have your code featured!
This ***IS*** the GW-BASIC you remember.. on the phone! Don't accept anything less.
TRIAL MODE
All commands/keywords/functions are available except the following:
* OPEN, CLOSE, INPUT#, LINE INPUT#, WRITE#, LOC, EOF, LOF, LOCK, UNLOCK, FIELD, GET (File), PUT (File)
* SAVE, MERGE, KILL, MKDIR, RMDIR
* CHAIN, COMMON
Use of these methods in trial mode will cause an Advanced Feature error (73) that can be trapped using ON ERROR.
VERSION HISTORY
V0.01
- Initial release
V0.02
- Custom keyboard (SIP).
- Added support for PEN, FRE, BEEP and SOUND.
- Added 'contact developer' menu item to the interpreter to ease contact the developer by email; optionally can include current in-memory script.