Well, long time I don't announce new releases here (usually goes to Facebook or twitter).
This one is version 1.7.0 which includes:

- Some fixes and better stability
- Added (finally!  8) ) READ, DATA and RESTORE which, essentially work very much like the ones in Sinclair BASIC (i.e. DATA with complex expressions supported)
- Can now call SUBs with no parenthesis: mysub 1, 5, a, 3*c    (expanded syntax)
- Can now call FUNctions with 1 or no parameters with no parenthesis.
Download it here: https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/archive/

A little demo I've done using ZXBC and a bunch of other brilliant stuff :

zx7 / rcs eainar saukas
putchars by britlion
vtii sergy bulba
google for images
boriel
and loads of others....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK7lOyqpN9g

Hola:

Quiero utilizar un set de caracteres personalizados que tengo en formato defb, pero no encuentro como hacerlo funcionar:

Well, long time I don't announce new releases here (usually goes to Facebook or twitter).
This one is version 1.6.10 which includes:

- Lots of fixes and better stability
- Faster and better asm code generated
- Added UART library for ZX Uno (uses UART for communication. Wifi coming soon)
- Added Radastan Mode PRINT, DRAW, LINE, CIRCLE, FILL and other primitives
- Finally, arrays of pointer to labels, lIke DIM a(1 TO 3) => {@label 1, @label2 + 3, @label5 }
- New powerful statements ON .. GOTO, ON .. GOSUB

Download it here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Archive">http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php ... IC:Archive</a><!-- m -->

Hi,

I've recently been using Visual Studio Code which I've configured to use the ZXBasic syntax highlighter, set up one push compilation, then runs my code in ZXsarUX.

Have a look at the video below :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUnhkHkXF7k

Any questions ask away!

Hi

I'm trying to write a kind of space shooter from scratch, i kind of wrote it in Sinclair BASIC first and in there I use UDGs
in the usual way by POKEing the usual UDG area at 65368. How do I do this in Boriel ZX ? It didn't like me doing it manually
causing random crashes and giving me "Out of Memory" when I tried to use inline ASM call. Thanks

Hi,

Can I ask if there are recent examples programs or tutorials for ZX BASIC? I'm accustomed to Sinclair BASIC and would like to convert some Spectrum Programs, but I'm also interested in the extra capabilities that ZX BASIC provides and linking to sprite toolkits and the Game Engines like BiFrost.

The Sample Programs section of the Wiki seems a little short on content and very simplistic.

https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/sample_programs/

I have tried reading through the reserved words and for example clicking on the SCREEN Keyword (replacement for SCREEN$):

https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/l...en/#screen

Comes up with 'There is currently no text in this page.'

I looked at the Programming Tutorials section:

https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/t...#tutorials

There is a very old partly completed PacMan tutorial, and a couple of tutorials in Spanish.

Sorry if this post sounds negative, it's certainly not meant to be. I'm just struggling to find resources.

Thanks

could anyone write a guide on how to pack and unpack a string using something like aplib or megalz?

when using the stable version:
/root/Downloads/zxbasic/zxb.py -t -a -B /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples/colors.bas (in directory: /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/zxb.py", line 12, in <module>
from six import StringIO
ImportError: No module named six
Compilation failed.


the most recent version of ZXBASIC:
python /root/Downloads/zxbasic/zxb.py -t -a -B /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples/colors.bas (in directory: /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/zxb.py", line 14, in <module>
import api.debug
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/api/debug.py", line 10, in <module>
from .config import OPTIONS
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/api/config.py", line 20, in <module>
from . import global_
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/api/global_.py", line 21, in <module>
from .constants import TYPE
File "/root/Downloads/zxbasic/api/constants.py", line 175
NAME_TYPES = {cls.TYPE_NAMES[x]: x for x in cls.TYPE_NAMES}
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Compilation failed.


is it because my version of python is incompatible? its 2.6.4

EDIT -
using python3 works:
python3 /root/Downloads/zxbasic/zxb.py -t -a -B /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples/colors.bas (in directory: /root/Downloads/zxbasic/examples)
Compilation finished successfully.

How does someone get each character of a string?

(im trying to do wordwrap for a large string)

oh I got the word wrap working now: