Hello Steve,
(2) to also add features found in later versions of GW-BASIC --- support
for subdirectories, EGA/VGA screen modes, etc. etc. etc. --- and
possibly to extend it even further (maybe even have it run natively on
Linux?).
It is good that the behavior of GW-BASIC, or more precisely BASI
Hello Jim, hello Steve, hello Akaydin,
DEF SEG is necessary for BLOAD and BSAVE to operate on screen memory -
I'll add that you can also do the "old skool" thing and do like we did
in my Fortran77 programming days: prompt the user for a seed value,
and pass that to RANDOMIZE.
10 PRINT "Enter a
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Jim Hall wrote:
I'll add that you can also do the "old skool" thing and do like we did
in my Fortran77 programming days: prompt the user for a seed value,
and pass that to RANDOMIZE.
10 PRINT "Enter a random seed value:"
20 INPUT SEED
30 RANDOMIZE SEED
And (and MBASIC-80/8
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 1:41 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Bora Akaydin via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,I am not 100% sure that DEF SEG statement is implemented in
> > GW BASIC but if it is, isn't it possible to read timer ticks value from
> > BIOS Data area and initi
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Bora Akaydin via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hi everybody,I am not 100% sure that DEF SEG statement is implemented in
GW BASIC but if it is, isn't it possible to read timer ticks value from
BIOS Data area and initialize random seed using this value? I know it is
not the same as "R
Hi everybody,I am not 100% sure that DEF SEG statement is implemented in GW
BASIC but if it is, isn't it possible to read timer ticks value from BIOS Data
area and initialize random seed using this value? I know it is not the same as
"RANDOMIZE TIMER" but would be a close alternative, IMO.
Best
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 1:40 AM TK Chia wrote:
> >> But this GW-BASIC seems to treat "TIMER" as a variable, so it's the
> >> same as
> >> typing:
> >> RANDOMIZE 0
> >> or any uninitialized variable: (which are set to zero)
>
> I checked the release GW-BASIC code. I think it does kind of recognize
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, TK Chia wrote:
Yes. At the same time, I hear that Michal Necasek (www.os2museum.com)
has been working on a separate reconstruction --- involving proprietary
code bits --- but has not published his results yet.
I believe there are at least two separate possible sub-projects
Hello Jim, hello Steve,
I didn't know how to report a bug to the GW-BASIC folks, but TK Chia
hangs
out on this list, so I thought I'd mention it here.
I do not think there is any official support for channel any more,
either at Microsoft, or anywhere else. Microsoft also stated that
"[t]he so
On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, Jim Hall wrote:
I didn't know how to report a bug to the GW-BASIC folks, but TK Chia hangs
out on this list, so I thought I'd mention it here.
I noticed TK Chia released a new GW-BASIC the other day. I started playing
around with it, just writing a few simple BASIC programs
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