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  • Re: Is Basic To Be Regard

    From MIKE POWELL@21:1/175 to SPECTRE on Fri Jul 12 09:41:00 2024
    ³ MP> As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one
    ³ MP> could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run
    ³ MP> under BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and
    ³
    ³ You probably could, we messed around with some and Applesoft. But things can ³ get out of hand pretty quickly, unless they're only using common BASIC
    ³ commands/functions. Otherwise you end up having to figure out what it does, ³ and then how you're going to do it, on whatever version you're working in.
    ³ Sometimes it becomes easier to use the original as a template and rewrite for ³ the new version of BASIC.
    ÀÄ[S=>MP]

    Back then, as a young teenager, things like that would not have occurred to
    me. I would have figured "it just doesn't work." Having worked in IT for
    30 or so years now, I can confirm that last sentence is correct. Sometimes
    it is just better to rewrite something.

    Mike

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  • From MIKE POWELL@21:1/175 to K9ZW on Fri Jul 12 09:43:00 2024
    ³ MP> As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one
    ³ MP> could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run under
    ³ MP> BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and some other
    ³ MP> things I suspect were unique to TI-BASIC and/or Extended BASIC that
    ³ MP> might not have a direct function to translate to.
    ³
    ³ There was a reference back in the day that mapped the various versions.
    ³
    ³ I think it listed some 150+ majopr varieties.
    ÀÄ[K=>MP]

    That probably would have been something that young teenage me would have
    spent many hours lost in. ;)

    ³ It was annoying when subsequent releases depreciated some function or feature ³ that your programs depended upon.
    ³
    ³ Downside of an interpreted enviornment, compared to a compiled environment
    ³ where once compiled there was less issues, that is until something machine
    ³ level was changed....
    ÀÄ[K=>MP]

    Ran into that in a COBOL shop. Everything was just fine until you had to
    make changes to a program that hadn't been recompiled in years. ;)

    Mike

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