Learn to Code with BASIC

This is a GitHub pages site with learn-to-code content using an 8-bit computer emulator and the BASIC programming language that I learnt to code with.

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Developing

The pages exist in the src directory. The static website is built using eleventy.

Setup:

nvm use
pnpm install

Then run the dev server:

pnpm dev

Floooh

We use the floooh project, which provides the emulator for the CPC6128. A compiled version of the emulator is already provided in the js folder so you don't need to build floooh yourself unless you want to.

We've create a workspace in floooh-workspace and added the chips-test project as a submodule.

To clean the workspace after updating chips-test, if you need to, delete all of the folders except chips-test in the workspace.

Setup

To setup the build environment

cd floooh-workspace/chips-test
./fips setup emscripten

Building

cd floooh-workspace/chips-test
./fips set config wasm-ninja-release
./fips build

The build will download a bunch of dependencies into the workspace if this is a clean build. The next builds will be faster.

Installing

To use the version you just built:

cp ../fips-deploy/chips-test/wasm-ninja-release/cpc* ../../static/js/floooh/

BASIC

Extracting files from .dsk files

Get iDSK from https://github.com/cpcsdk/idsk

Build it from source:

cmake
make

List the files on your disk:

./iDSK <dskfile> -l

Then get the listed file(s):

./iDSK <dskfile> -g <filename>

Converting .bas files to text

Download BASList.jar from https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/applications/baslist-java-tool-to-list-basic-files/msg29481/#msg29481

Then run it to present the GUI window:

java -jar BASList.jar

Click the "List" button to load the file, and then "Copy" to copy the code out.

I have made some enhancements to BASList, which I've published on GitHub at https://github.com/karlvr/baslist but which might not be public until I've checked if the original author is happy for me to actually publish it.