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hotpaw2
Aug 29, 2001 9:51 pm
The Chipmunk Basic Home Page is here:<br> <<a href=http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic target=new>http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic<;/a> > <br>Enjoy....
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spagetti_coder
Sep 17, 2001 5:31 pm
i am so happy to find good ol basic alive and well in 2001 !<br>'it is not the power of the language but rather the skill of the programmer'<br>anyways, in...
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gripperusa
Sep 24, 2001 3:17 pm
M spagetti_coder<br>This is great....<br>I'm not much of a programmer, hobby thing for me,<br>but will this give you what want??<br>100 a$="test" :<br>110 dim...
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dunric
Sep 26, 2001 7:03 am
Does either the Mac or Windows version of Chipmunk Basic support the COLOR or LOCATE commands?<br><br>Please address replies to my e-mail address at:...
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gripperusa
Sep 26, 2001 8:43 pm
dunric,<br>the locate = gotoxy, its been a while since I've<br>had my Mac, but there was some color in a <br>graphic's widow, can't recall the exact...
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gripperusa
Oct 19, 2001 1:06 pm
I've used the fgetbyte(#)and input$(1,#), but<br>what am I looking for?<br>I'd Like to DO:<br> open "file.txt"; for input as #1<br> while not eof(1)<br> c1$ = ...
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FrankWJ
Oct 25, 2001 3:19 pm
Beside the fact that d$(r) is based on b$ and not on a$, the asc() function can give you the ASCII value of only the left-most character in d$(r) -- which is...
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FrankWJ
Oct 25, 2001 3:35 pm
I believe you are looking to test<br><br>c1$=chr$(13) 'carriage return<br>c2$=chr$(10) 'linefeed<br><br>Unfortunately, I don't recall which OS creates which...
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One_Winged_Boy
Oct 26, 2001 8:03 am
Hi, all<br><br>I'm possitive the CHAR13 + CHAR10 is a DOS thing. I'm sure that unix only uses 13 (car-return) because a line feed is "obvious" after a ...
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One_Winged_Boy
Oct 26, 2001 8:09 am
<a href=http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~bergmann/compilers.htm target=new>http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~bergmann/compilers.htm</a><br><br>Chipmunk basic is there, and it's...
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sgrace_pobox_com
sgrace_pobox...
Oct 26, 2001 3:23 pm
My recollection is that UNIX uses LF (10) only without the CR (13)....
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duaine_bollwitt
Nov 4, 2001 4:11 pm
I have a number simple basic programs written in the process of doing engineering project calculations. They were written in "Microsoft BASIC (b)" in 1985-6....
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gripperusa
Nov 5, 2001 8:03 pm
Thanks <br> 200 rem dummy test get file name<br> 201 x = 0 : ck$ = ""<br> 202 input" Enter File Name To Test ";name$<br> 204 if len(name$) = 0 then goto 1000 :...
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gripperusa
Nov 5, 2001 8:10 pm
Is it intended that the newest version of<br>Chipmunk BASIC for unix, basic-sunos, closes the Terminal Window<br>when it EXIT - BYE?? <br>This is different...
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One_Winged_Boy
Nov 7, 2001 6:31 am
Hi Duaine.<br><br>Do you still have access to an old PC? I'm pretty sure that before QBASIC (1990), BASIC programs were saved in "tokenized" mode, so you could...
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gripperusa
Nov 24, 2001 6:58 pm
Can you gosub from inside a SUB..ENDSUB?<br>Will it see the gobal varables set in the gosub?<br>Thanks - Rick...
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gripperusa
Nov 26, 2001 6:32 pm
Well I'm confused....<br>I would have thought that once you're in a<br>SUB...END SUB you could only work on what was<br>passed to that SUB, some experimenting...
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lizard_king55
Dec 2, 2001 5:20 am
I know you can draw line in chipmunk basic in the mac version. Does anyone know if you can draw a line using a linear equation?...
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One_Winged_Boy
Dec 9, 2001 12:52 am
I believe the answer is no. You can set a point and you can draw a poligon or a line. Maybe you need to look at the poly instruction? Linear equations are only...
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hotpaw2
Jan 29, 2002 7:52 pm
Chipmunk Basic 3.5.8, new 2002 releases are on the web site:<br> <<a href=http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic...
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gripperusa
Feb 23, 2002 7:20 pm
Using sunos.basic<br>I have this:<br> 3200 SUB EMenu()<br> 3202 print " ";AL$ : xem = len(AL$)<br> 3204 print " Choose From Menu "<br> 3206 print " 1. Append ...
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gripperusa
Mar 20, 2002 10:04 pm
Has anyone experienced inkey$ not returning what you key'd? -Rick...
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brianreffinsmith
brianreffins...
Mar 26, 2002 9:34 pm
Hello - does anyone know if there is in Mac Chipmunk Basic a command that will return the colour (R,G,B) or even grey-scale value for a pixel at x,y? I'm sure...
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weeevans
Mar 27, 2002 12:23 am
... Use V=scrn(x,y,c) where x, y are screen coordinates of the pixel c is 1 for the red component, 2 for blue, 3 for green V is the returned intensity, 0-100,...
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weeevans
Mar 27, 2002 12:44 am
The scripting Dictionary for Chipmunk Basic says that any BASIC commmand that can be issued from the command line can be written in script. But I have not...
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brianreffinsmith
brianreffins...
Mar 28, 2002 1:31 pm
Thanks - just what I needed. Brian...
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hootenanny11
Apr 28, 2002 8:17 am
Hi. I'm a newcomer to chipmunkbasic, but I've written simple programs in gwbasic for years. Could someone tell me (or remind me) how to create files for input...
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techlinks
Jun 1, 2002 5:41 am
Hello...I have Chipmunk Basic version 3.5.8.b5 for both Windows and DOS. I'm trying to accomplish the following: 1. Clear Screen (i.e. remove ALL contents...
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huffmanmb
Jun 3, 2002 1:34 pm
I use the following to clear the screen: SYS( "command.com /c cls" ) ' Win98/Win2K Clear Screen From the Chipmunk Basic home page and man page I believe ...
