nxtBasic 0.5b is now released and ready to download.

All aspects of programming on the Commander X16.
Post Reply
unartic
Posts: 145
Joined: Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:26 pm

nxtBasic 0.5b is now released and ready to download.

Post by unartic »

nxtBasic 0.5b is now released and ready to download.

Whats new?

- Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug while checking length of string concatanation
  • Fixed bug when multiple lines seperated by a semicolon where places behind the THEN statement
  • Fixed bug in BLOAD function
  • Fixed bug in function/sub definition where there was as space in front of the argument.
  • Fixed bug in BANK and COLOR statement when not supplying the optional argument
- New:
  • Added CHAIN -> resume executing into another PRG-file.
  • Added "EXIT SUB" and "EXIT FUNCTION"
  • Added documentation on how to extend nxtBasic with your own assembly routines
  • Added DO/LOOP/EXIT LOOP
  • Added "OPTION EXPLICIT" to force declaration of variables
  • Added DIRITEMDATE(), DIRITEMTIME() and DIRITEMSIZE() to retrieve all file information
  • Added internal constants for 16 bit registers (r0,r1 etc) and vera-registers
- Improved:
  • Moved WorkBuffer and stacktable to end of low mem space
  • VERA FX multiplication output moved to non-visible piece of vram
  • ADDSPRITE can now also be called with an address instead of a filename to configure a sprite which is already in vram
  • ADDSPRITE returns the vram address a sprite is loaded into GETA(), GETX() and GETY()
  • Added ",FORCE" at the #INCLUDE directive to force an include, even if the file has been included before.
  • If BINPUT# is used to load less then 256 bytes, MACPTR is used to speed up the reading
  • Syntax checking for CONST definitions on compile time.
  • nxtBasic resets several internal memorylocation on run so running a prg several times should not cause an issue
  • Several performance improvements regarding sprite functions
  • 25% performance improvement on FOR-NEXT loops when there is no STEP defined.
Docs and download:
https://github.com/unartic/nxtBasic/ or https://nxtbasic.com/
funkheld
Posts: 322
Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:11 am

Re: nxtBasic 0.5b is now released and ready to download.

Post by funkheld »

hello, thanks for the new version.
wonderful.

greetings
Post Reply