![]() For Windows, I loved Jamagic (brilliant product and was awesome for apps or 2d) and Aurora. Syntax-wise, well my favorite on the PalmOS (all-time fave OS to develop for) was PocketC. So the less time spent writing and debugging, the better for me. More often than not, my work was freelance contracts and I got paid for the job, not by the hour. Ironically, I am not one who for development ever used BASIC because I liked the syntax, I used BASIC because on variants like PureB, I can simply get more work done quicker and with less bloat. BCPL is where I got my first taste of programming. But, I will add one to the list, the one I started with as a kid at my Grandfather's office in the late 70s BCPL on the Xerox Alto. I have used the majority of BASICs listed so far. Well, apparently it's not )) Sorry for losing your highscore Ghostbusters guy! BYEEEEE! ))) *swift exit* I really had the urge to test that the button on the monitor was really only to turn the monitor on and off. On Acorn I guess a whole lot of bitmap memory which may have previously been program mem is zeroed )Īny while we are on the subject of completely FSUing people - I was once a department store and someone was playing Ghostbusters on an Amstrad CPC. he had a rather large listing in memory - and apparently "MODE x" effectively does a "NEW" (I suspect it might be slightly more destructive than a commodore 64 "NEW" which really only over writes 3 bytes. I, in an experimental moment while my friends brother was at his evening meal, typed "MODE 0" (which may have even been a mode the Acorn didnt have). This relais could be used for a lot of things I really enjoyed the tape-relais as this could be opened and closed with the *Motor-command directly. That was good as there were a number of books with examples for this computer. This had the same BASIC as the BBC Microcomputer. I started back in the days with an Acorn Electron. Looked at and dabbled with many others but didn't see anything else that caught my interest enough. ZB5 (Win32 interpreter written in C++ in Australia, never finalized and never released but very stable, several programs) ZBasic (my fav DOS Basic, initially in CPM on the Amstrad 6128 then the DOS version on PC-XT's, dozens of programs) Locomotive Basic (Amstrad 6128, dozens of programs) Tandy Color Computer Basic (similar to the Basic used on the Hitachi Peach and GW Basic)Ĭommodore 64 (dozens of programs) including a Basic compilerīBC Basic (might've had a different name) Then TRS-80 Level 1 then Level 2 then the floppy disk version ![]() I originally learned Fortran (1970?) then WPL.įirsts Basic was for a HP desktop computer around 1978. These are the ones I actually wrote something with, not just had a squiz. I started with a Timex/Sinclair 1000 back in 82'. I already have a candidate project to start developing in PureBasic during Christmas vacations it remembers me the old days when I cold develop a full application in a week in VB or FoxPro. PureBasic has a huge library, creates very small executables without dependencies, it has a simple and straightforward language (no OOP, Design patterns, DI complexities). Java in the desktop is a mess, JavaFX is nice but having a 60Mb executable for a simple app is insane too, the whole process to build a Java installer is cumbersome too. These days all programs are bloated, it is insane to have 200Mb Electron apps consuming 800Mb+ of RAM. I discovered PureBasic last week while I was thinking if renewing a Xojo license I tried on Windows and Mac and felt in love with it. Then I did some professional programming with some QuickBasic and Visual Basic, and used Basic on PSION PDA's too.Īfter I worked with Clipper and FoxPro and since 2000 I work professionally with Java, C/C++ and some web technology but still have used basic (RealBasic/Xojo) for some hobby and professional utilities. I started learning programming in the 80's with Commodore Vic20, then GW-Basic and TurboBasic.
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