>On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Maurizio wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just a weird idea.
>>
>> Why not a competition for demos witten in Basic?
>
>Yes, I like that idea !!! Expetially, if we can use XBASIC.
>
>>
>> I think i will be a nice *match*!!!
>>
>> Of course in Basic mean without an ML or related instrunction like
>> Poke,Peek,Vpoke,Vpeek,In,Out,Usr,Data etc.
>> I don't know is right to exclude also the Vdp instrunction.
>
>I don't think, that VPOKE, VPEEK, VDP and DATA commands has anything to do
>with ML. IN, OUT and WAIT commands are also not for ML proggrams, but
>anyway they should maybe leaved outside of this competition. Maybe also
>all CALL, BLOAD and '#I commands should be forbidden exept
>BLOAD"XBASIC.BIN",R and _TURBO ON/OFF, if we use XBASIC.
>
First of all I'd like to say that I think this a good idea...
I don't think the DATA and POKE commands are a problem if you ban the USR
command, so I think both DATA and POKE (and PEEK) should be legal commands
in the contest. VPEEK and VPOKE are the only commands to read from/write to
the video-memory, and they really haven't got anything to do with ML. The
only alternative would be POINT and PSET (but that's not a full 100%
alternative).
IN and OUT (and VDP), really haven't got *ANYTHING* to do with ML. IN and
OUT just let you write or read data through a port. The VDP command let's
you write to VDP registers. Basically the only ML related command is "USR".
Ban this one and you get pure basic.
So, we should make a list of banned commands, legalize KUN-BASIC (XBASIC) or
not, pick a deadline and an upload FTP-site, and off we go!
P/S: BLOAD should also be legal, as long as you ban the ",R" switch. How
should I otherwise load binary data into (video)memory???
Greets,
Jan-Lieuwe
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