Hello,

just wanted to say that blassic is a really great BASIC. Unfortunately
I wasn't able to compile under Ubuntu (something wrong with the
ncurses and curses library). But I used the rpm binary package and
transformed with "alien" to a deb. (blassic-0.10). Well, and here's my
first program, a little starfield:

10 MODE 640,480
20 PAPER 0
30 COLOR 15:PEN 15
40 CLS
50 DIM x(500)
60 DIM y(500)
70 DIM v(500)
80 FOR i= 0 TO 500
90 x(i)=INT(RND*640)+1
100 y(i)=INT(RND*480)+1
110 v(i)=INT(RND*8)+1
120 NEXT
125 REPEAT
126 i$=INKEY$
130 FOR i=0 TO 500
140 COLOR 0: PEN 0
150 PLOT x(i),y(i)
160 x(i)=x(i)-v(i)
170 IF x(i)<0 THEN x(i)=x(i)+640
180 COLOR 15:PEN 15
190 PLOT x(i),y(i)
200 NEXT
210 UNTIL i$<>""

Best wishes,

cybermonkey342

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