Level I BASIC

[Mr SQL]

How close is the Level I Basic to the Tiny Basic posted in the first issue of Dr Dobbs journal? That version, I think, was written by Dennis Allison, and I'm fuzzy on the relationship between that and the Li-Chen Wang (TRS 80 Level I??) version

Real close neglectoru, I believe Level I used the source for Wang's Tiny BASIC (2k) and added code for IO and hardware to the 4K ROM.

 

 

Actually, I think it was purchased in 1980.

 

James, there was a popular 101 programs book that came out in 1978 with programs that could run on any BASIC, but it was probably a different book than the Radio-Shack version, I might be thinking of an even earlier version:

 

...some BASIC programs were considered universal and could be used in machines running any variant of BASIC (sometimes with minor adaptations). Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games". This book, and its sequels, provided hundreds of ready-to-go programs that could be easily converted to practically any BASIC-running platform. The book reached the stores in 1978, just as the home computer market was starting off, and it became the first million-selling computer book.

 

http://dev.worldpossible.org/mods/wikipedia_for_schools/wp/b/BASIC.htm

[JamesD]

Real close neglectoru, I believe Level I used the source for Wang's Tiny BASIC (2k) and added code for IO and hardware to the 4K ROM.

 

 

 

James, there was a popular 101 programs book that came out in 1978 with programs that could run on any BASIC, but it was probably a different book than the Radio-Shack version, I might be thinking of an even earlier version:

 

...some BASIC programs were considered universal and could be used in machines running any variant of BASIC (sometimes with minor adaptations). Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games". This book, and its sequels, provided hundreds of ready-to-go programs that could be easily converted to practically any BASIC-running platform. The book reached the stores in 1978, just as the home computer market was starting off, and it became the first million-selling computer book.

 

http://dev.worldpossible.org/mods/wikipedia_for_schools/wp/b/BASIC.htm

Yup, it was a different book but I *think* many of the programs in the later book are ports.

I don't think there was anything in the later book that took advantage of TRS-80 graphics or there being any USR programs or specific POKEs either.

[JamesD]

Yup, it was a different book but I *think* many of the programs in the later book are ports.

I don't think there was anything in the later book that took advantage of TRS-80 graphics or there being any USR programs or specific POKEs either.

Actually, the one I remember for sure was Hunt the Wumpas which was in the first book but the later book offered the game with multiple mazes.