From slothpuck at gmail.com  Thu Oct 11 13:40:38 2007
From: slothpuck at gmail.com (Lee Jones)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:40:38 +0000
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
Message-ID: <c362cb880710111340r32e2920am6900974c2586b0a6@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all :)  !

I can't remember if I have been on this list before (or something
similar!) but I was wondering if it was possible to write programs
that run under the GEM GUI from basic. I know there are bindings for
pascal, but has anyone tried using BASIC at all? I was thinking maybe
using something like freebasic or maybe the old "firstbas" basic
compiler? Any ideas?

ljones

From owen at owenrudge.net  Thu Oct 11 16:30:59 2007
From: owen at owenrudge.net (Owen Rudge)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:30:59 +0100
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
References: <c362cb880710111340r32e2920am6900974c2586b0a6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <02ec01c80c5e$c974e700$842a204e@rudgexp>

Hi Lee,

I did try creating some very basic bindings for MS QuickBasic some years 
ago - I think I may have got a rudamentary Hello World program working, but 
not much more than that. Quite where those bindings may be on my computer, 
if they even do still exist, I'm not entirely sure at the moment. There 
wasn't much to them, though.

Regards,

-- 
Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/ 


From codesuidae at gmail.com  Thu Oct 11 19:21:47 2007
From: codesuidae at gmail.com (code suidae)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:21:47 -0500
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
In-Reply-To: <02ec01c80c5e$c974e700$842a204e@rudgexp>
References: <c362cb880710111340r32e2920am6900974c2586b0a6@mail.gmail.com>
	<02ec01c80c5e$c974e700$842a204e@rudgexp>
Message-ID: <f32c887f0710111921q507697bfkddf87d5f2ce614fc@mail.gmail.com>

Just an idea, but you might be able to find BASIC implementation in a
language that you already have GEM bindings for. You'd have much more
freedom in getting it working with GEM that way.

Dave K

On 10/11/07, Owen Rudge <owen at owenrudge.net> wrote:
> Hi Lee,
>
> I did try creating some very basic bindings for MS QuickBasic some years
> ago - I think I may have got a rudamentary Hello World program working, but
> not much more than that. Quite where those bindings may be on my computer,
> if they even do still exist, I'm not entirely sure at the moment. There
> wasn't much to them, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Owen Rudge
> http://www.owenrudge.net/
>
> _______________________________________________
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>


-- 
"Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know." -
M. King Hubbert

From jce at seasip.demon.co.uk  Sun Oct 21 12:37:04 2007
From: jce at seasip.demon.co.uk (John Elliott)
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:37:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [GEM Development] Another video driver
Message-ID: <E1Ijgbg-0001sZ-00@seasip.demon.co.uk>

  I've written another video driver - this time, for the Apricot PC/Xi
computers, at 800x400 monochrome resolution. It can be downloaded from the
usual place: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/drivers.html

  What made this one tricky was:
i) The PC/Xi graphical screen is laid out as 50x50 cells, each 16x8 pixels.
ii) The BIOS and hardware are decidedly not PC-compatible.
iii) ... and GEM rather expects PC-compatible scancodes.
iv) In fact, there are various bits of the Xi BIOS that are frankly pants.

  But if all goes well, the only problem you'll notice (assuming you have
suitable hardware) is that there's no key repeat.

-- 
John Elliott

From topcatdrc at yahoo.com  Tue Oct 23 09:37:08 2007
From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com (Thomas Clayton)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:37:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
In-Reply-To: <c362cb880710111340r32e2920am6900974c2586b0a6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <249165.66719.qm@web33611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Anyone mention // have you seen in some of /their/ archive pages;
mention of "Locomotive BASIC"?

Apparently, it was - was - already set up for GEM.

Thomas Clayton
writing to the GEM list from his new homw (an apt.) for the first time.
(The GEM stuff I had, I /still/ have. It's in /one/ of these boxes near
my elbows, somewhere! ;-)
)
--- Lee Jones <slothpuck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all :)  !
> 
> I can't remember if I have been on this list before (or something
> similar!) but I was wondering if it was possible to write programs
> that run under the GEM GUI from basic. I know there are bindings for
> pascal, but has anyone tried using BASIC at all? I was thinking maybe
> using something like freebasic or maybe the old "firstbas" basic
> compiler? Any ideas?
> 
> ljones
> _______________________________________________
> gem-dev mailing list
> gem-dev at simpits.org
> http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/gem-dev
> 


From owen at owenrudge.net  Tue Oct 23 09:43:47 2007
From: owen at owenrudge.net (Owen Rudge)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:43:47 +0100
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
References: <249165.66719.qm@web33611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <062d01c81593$e45683b0$842a204e@lan.owenrudge.net>

> Anyone mention // have you seen in some of /their/ archive pages;
> mention of "Locomotive BASIC"?

Locomotive BASIC 2 was supplied with the AMSTRAD PC 1512/1640 computers, and 
was quite possibly available separately, too. I'll have it on my computer 
here somewhere, and it was available from various web sites in the past - 
whether any of those sites are still up is perhaps another matter.

-- 
Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/ 


From topcatdrc at yahoo.com  Mon Oct 29 00:28:11 2007
From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com (Thomas Clayton)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:28:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GEM Development] GEM and BASIC
In-Reply-To: <062d01c81593$e45683b0$842a204e@lan.owenrudge.net>
Message-ID: <999432.15610.qm@web33603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Owen,

it twasn't I, but the originator of this thread who had asked for info.
about programming GEM in BASIC. I thought I'd mention - since no one
else had - that 'Locomotive BASIC' existed and had/has? some relevance
to his inquiry.

Tom Clayton

--- Owen Rudge <owen at owenrudge.net> wrote:

> > Anyone mention // have you seen in some of /their/ archive pages;
> > mention of "Locomotive BASIC"?
> 
> Locomotive BASIC 2 was supplied with the AMSTRAD PC 1512/1640
> computers, and 
> was quite possibly available separately, too. I'll have it on my
> computer 
> here somewhere, and it was available from various web sites in the
> past - 
> whether any of those sites are still up is perhaps another matter.
> 
> -- 
> Owen Rudge
> http://www.owenrudge.net/ 
> 
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