Sunflower BASIC for uxn is compiled.
I wonder if that is a necessary property of Sunflower BASIC? I would really like to have an interpreted BASIC on uxn.
Uxn is a stack machine, so it should be quite trivial to implement the People's Computer Company Intermediate Language method.
Maybe this is my next big top level software passion project?
cc @neauoire
@dirtycommo It's not necessary, I wanted Sunflower BASIC to be fast enough to draw graphics in real time, but removing the compilation step and re-interpretting every line every time is a trivial change. Lemme know if you need a hand doing that :)
BASIC and stack machines are a match made in heaven.
@neauoire @dirtycommo since dandelions are related to sunflowers maybe this is Dandelion BASIC?
@neauoire I will step through it 🙂 thanks!
What I am looking for is something akin to a teleprinter console.
I want to be able to run BASIC programs from the 1970s on uxn, its portability makes it suitable for the @permacomputer project.
The environment I have been inhabiting has been very similar to the very earliest days of BASIC, haha.
Getting the EDIT.BAS text editor running on Sunflower BASIC would be worthy or a devlog 🤣
@dirtycommo waitwaitwait, there’s edit.bas? Is it a line editor? What’s its lineage? Is the source available? I want to try, as someone who did ed.bas https://github.com/aartaka/ed.bas 🤓
