Well at the moment I've bought myself a couple of programming books
The TRS80 Model 100 portable computer by David Lien
The Beginners Computer Handbook by Usborne (general book, covering
Vic20, Spectrum, TRS80)
Basic Computer Games 101 Great Games edited by David H, Ahl
I thought while learning about BASIC, it wouldn't hurt to do a couple of
type in's, just to experiment, have fun and see what I can achieve using
my M100.
On 15/01/2020 11:06, Charles Hudson wrote:
James Zeun wrote:
"Could I ask then, does that apply to the rest of the TRS-80 range of
computers? I mean, aside from not taking advantage of the M100s
graphics abilities, could code from books focusing on these systems
still be perfectly fine to work on my M100?" One of the reasons BASIC
came to be in such low regard was the proliferation of "gotchas"
caused by variations in the language's implementation. Even within
Microsoft's product line, which was used by everyone from A to Z. The
ROMs (and RAM) were limited in space and sometimes a feature was left
out in favor of some other feature, or tweaked to save a couple of
bytes. So no, don't assume compatibility, maybe even if the author
says his code is applicable for your machine. It's best to test. Or
roll your own. How's that coming? -CH-
