maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

HUGE step forward

i now have Stefan's basic running on the gizmo with full graphic capabilities of the monochrome 128x64 display and implemented a FatFSUSB driver so i can save files and transfer them to a computer

gave up on pybasic on top of circuitpython, have now been porting stefan's tinybasic 2 to the gizmo

some text printing and scrolling is still bad but this is slowly becoming a much more functional basic machine

smaller font, smoother scrolling

it speaks basic

that ought to do for now

sick

pico successfully shimmed

here's the plan, roughly

guhh i would really have liked if this grove connector wasn't on this side of the board, probably going to remove it and solder straight to pads

the height (and the added width if i was using a grove cable) would make designing a case around it awkward

ohhh my pkcell........

toys today

i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer

https://github.com/Lana-chan/microdrummo

little red riding hood mouse

oh nevermind!

went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion

well, time to test play it through then :)

fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed

yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅

i think it's mostly working... but i think something on the parser is still wrong

on top of some typos i made, i've had to make quite a few modifications as the book doesn't recognize IBM/GW-BASIC as one of the languages the game is ported to

well... i'm done typing!

only one more page to go!

i'm half way through 🙂

the software i'm using by the way is PC-BASIC which i found out about yesterday

it's a modern recreation of GW-BASIC, BASICA et al, simulating many video modes including Hercules and even Tandy 3-channel sound

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

the book targets C64, TRS-80, Spectrum and Apple, so we'll find out what bugs arise and need to be fixed only once i'm done typing and try to run it