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Silver Dream !
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 107 |
Release id #195332 : VBASIC 1.0
For interested parties - just released 1.0 of VASYL BASIC. A BASIC extension with tools for low level programming and full support for VASYL/BeamRacer |
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Silver Dream !
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 107 |
Answering the questions from the release page:
"standard parallel operation with the VIC-II is possible after installing and running the Beam Racer?"
I am not fully convinced that I correctly understand the question, but...
* installation of BeamRacer in no way affects how the computer operates - the expansion remains "invisible" by default and needs to be software-activated first
* even activating installed BeamRacer alone doesn't change any of the standard methods of VIC programming. With BeamRacer installed and activated one can still employ the same programming techniques as always, with the only difference being that inadvertent writes into unused range of VIC address space (which shouldn't be done anyway) may cause unpredictable results due to the fact that those addresses are now valid and refer to VASYL registers |
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Silver Dream !
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 107 |
> "@SD: Is MHL someone else besides you?"
Besides me there's the guy whom you still remember as "Thorgal/WFMH". He wrote the vast majority of the code for this release, with my code parts being mostly fixes and additions to the core. "MHL" is his "rebranding" idea. |
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Silver Dream !
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 107 |
> Still no answer about the file extension. .c64 can't be regarded as standard, can it?
The good thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from ;-)
I use it for some good time. C64 is not a msdos machine and does not care how you name your files. Just save it as PRG and that's it. If you have C128 or another CBM machine that will help differentiate compatible binaries. If your C64 storage device runs on non-CBM DOS and assumes something else than PRG for files, which don't have their names ending with ".PRG" (or ",PRG") then add whatever is needed in order to make it happy. None of that should be too difficult IMHO. |
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DKT
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 96 |
Quote:With BeamRacer installed and activated one can still employ the same programming techniques as always
Awesome!
Thanks. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3132 |
> the guy whom you still remember as "Thorgal/WFMH"
Never heard before. He's not listed in W.F.M.H.
There is a Thorgal also from Poland, it's the same guy or another one? I bet it's a different one as this one is just a swapper.
Maybe add it, help on completing the database. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3132 |
> Just save it as PRG and that's it.
One have to open the file with a hexeditor to understand what's in it.
I don't care if you don't care, I've renamed it to prg in the entry and you're invited to follow some rules that others follow, not just your own ones. |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4595 |
Quote: > Just save it as PRG and that's it.
One have to open the file with a hexeditor to understand what's in it.
I don't care if you don't care, I've renamed it to prg in the entry and you're invited to follow some rules that others follow, not just your own ones.
+1
.prg is it |
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laubzega
Account closed
Registered: Sep 2020
Posts: 5 |
Quote: > the guy whom you still remember as "Thorgal/WFMH"
Never heard before. He's not listed in W.F.M.H.
There is a Thorgal also from Poland, it's the same guy or another one? I bet it's a different one as this one is just a swapper.
Maybe add it, help on completing the database.
Probably because I was on Atari 8-bit scene when active ('87-'91). C64 is 2018+ for me, with VBASIC being my first public release.
Anyway, I've added my handle to the db and asked silverdr to reassign the credits. |
