How hard is it to learn basic and acembly?
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 3:14 am
On 3/5/2021 at 8:39 PM, Nero said:
As I was hoping to 're-learn' BASIC not too long ago, I was planning on porting one of those old 'book games' into BASIC. Actually began doing that in an old Apple II emulator, since it was the computer I learned BASIC on, but now I'm more or less inclined to do it in the X16's emulator and see what happens. I have never even seen a real C64 in my life, let alone programmed in one. Is there any place where I can check the differences between Applesoft's and X16's/Commodore's BASIC? Or... is there any practical difference? Sorry for the newbness, but we gotta start somewhere ?
In VIC20, C64, and X16 BASIC the AND, OR, and NOT operators are bitwise, but in Applesoft they are logical/boolean. 3=3 is -1 in X16 etc., but 1 in Applesoft. STR$(7) has an extra space for sign in X16 etc., but not in Applesoft. Applesoft is described here: https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/reference.html
X16 BASIC is the same as C64 BASIC (CBM BASIC v.2), but with enhancements: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/blob/master/Commander X16 Programmer's Reference Guide.md