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 ...
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gripperusa
Jun 6, 2002 1:35 pm
Mike Pretty Good Thinking.... -Rick...
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progman22000
Jul 10, 2002 6:55 pm
Has anyone tried running the linux port of chipmunk basic on Sharp's Linux-based pda? This port runs fine on my Slackware Linux and FreeBSD boxes, but now the...
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progman22000
Jul 16, 2002 6:38 pm
Update: A friend at work who now owns a Sharp tried to run it, and it appears that it would have to be recompiled specifically for that cpu architecture,...
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progman22000
Aug 13, 2002 1:39 am
Found a great book from 1977 about Basic programming that is still in print! It has been especially valuable teaching me about matrices, that are absent from...
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L'Abominable
labominabl
Sep 2, 2002 2:33 pm
hello the-few-of-you-still-interested-in-BASIC, I'm trying to use the Mac serial ports with Chipmunk BASIC to drive an RS-232 electronic board. I made sure the...
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marcjonesnyc
Sep 3, 2002 12:28 am
I was glad to read that cBaS 3.5.8 for OS X was out in June but I can't seem to get a hold of Ron Nicholson's site. Anyone have a copy/know where one can be...
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L'Abominable
labominabl
Sep 12, 2002 2:59 pm
Anybody out there ? I'm still trying to use the serial prots with Chipmunk BASIC. "Open COM:1" still gives me the error below. On the other hand, I discovered ...
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hotpaw2
Sep 15, 2002 9:43 pm
Chipmunk Basic 3.5.8b7, a new Sep-2002 release, is on the Chipmunk Basic web site: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic MacOS X console and command-line, and...
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Luca
ldentis
Oct 1, 2002 6:27 pm
CB v. 3.5.8b7 for OS X doesn't allow to use 'cls' or 'home' to clear the graphics window; doesn't allow to use the 'call' statement; doesn't allow to use the ...
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Luca
ldentis
Oct 2, 2002 12:08 pm
'TextEdit' - or 'pico' if you're using the command line version - allows you to write your programs without line numbers, as well as you were using 'BBEdit ...
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jamesrosensteel
Nov 4, 2002 7:28 pm
I'm looking for a way to copy a pdf file to a location in a variable in a chipmunk program. Anyone know of a way to do this???? Thanks....
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L'Abominable
labominabl
Nov 5, 2002 2:30 pm
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gripperusa
Nov 5, 2002 3:23 pm
... variable ... I assume you're on a Mac, I can't recall if I ever knew how to copy a file, form one location to another, but on unix I would sys("cp -pr...
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Larry Anderson
joecommodore
Nov 6, 2002 5:00 am
Oohh That's tough, in FoxBase I just use the Copy File command, doesn't look like Chipmunk has that option. Though you sould be able to do it in...
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L'Abominable
labominabl
Nov 6, 2002 4:57 pm
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john_r_nyquist
Nov 17, 2002 6:17 pm
I just downloaded Chipmunk BASIC 3.5.7 on Mac OS 9.2.2 and I was trying to run a program which uses TAB. Here is the line: 90 PRINT TAB(X,Y);"*" The program...
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john_r_nyquist
Nov 17, 2002 6:46 pm
After reading: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/readme.cbas.html I found what I need to change, line 90 I changed to use GOTOXY and then I put the print on...
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gripperusa
Nov 25, 2002 1:31 pm
It would be helpful for me to know which version of ChipmunkBasic I was running, anyone have any ideas on how to CODE this? Thanks - Rick...
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hotpaw2
Dec 13, 2002 8:17 pm
Try checking the errorstatus$ variable when the Basic program first starts....
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gripperusa
Dec 16, 2002 6:07 pm
... <no_reply@y...> ... I ... PERFECT, Thank you very much... - Rick...
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marcjonesnyc
Mar 23, 2003 2:03 am
As far back as I can remember, there's been this "hey i just found an undocumented command" situation in the Chipmunk Basic manual... has anyone here ever...
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leonpaternoster
Jun 21, 2003 8:52 pm
. . . as I see there have only been a handful of messages in the last year . . . Anyway . . . I'm trying to set up an array that contains both string and...
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gripperusa
Jul 29, 2003 5:52 pm
I guess this is pretty old message, but I did notice: vocabulary.word_type_1(1) = "meta there is no closing " on meta? I am sorry if I misunderstood your...
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progman22000
Jul 31, 2003 11:03 pm
Hi gang, Do you think we can collaborate on a simplified basic programming tutorial together? Perhaps using Chipmunk Basic as the "base". We all know that...
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progman22000
Aug 1, 2003 2:57 am
(This was brought over from the HotPaw Basic Yahoo group to possibly put the project questions here...) Good stuff! I think the starting point would be...
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hotpaw2
Aug 1, 2003 3:57 am
Chipmunk Basic likes simpler statements. Not sure, but try this: dim foo as new dictionary_entry foo.word = "meta" foo.word_id = 1 vocabulary(1) = foo etc....
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jamiekg@...
jamiekg
Aug 1, 2003 10:02 pm
... Sounds like a great idea. While it's dead easy to find simple pascal tutorials online, it's damn near impossible for a beginner to find a simple basic...
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progman22000
Aug 2, 2003 7:12 am
You bring up a good point. I was only thinking of the Unix command-line versions, and just the windows port of Chipmunk Basic. I'd love to see screen shots of...
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jamiekg@...
jamiekg
Aug 2, 2003 9:07 am
... There's plenty of old Macs that are more than up to the task on Ebay for dirt cheap prices. If I didn't live half a world away I'd be buying a few older...
