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v0.76 is now available from https://github.com/bobbimanners/EightBall

There are numerous small improvements. The virtual machine has been optimized somewhat and compiled bytecode now runs a good deal faster than before.

Name: EightBall Author: Bobbi Genre: Programming Language Code: Machine Code Requirements: VIC-20 + 32K RAM Description: EightBall is an interpreter and bytecode compiler for a novel structured programming language. It runs on a number of 6502-based vintage systems (C64, VIC20, Apple //e) and may al...

Fixed a couple of bugs. Latest version is v0.52.

I am going to have to give this new version a try with my RSS Reader! Thanks for all your RS-232 efforts!

Took longer than I thought, but there is a new release of EightBall on my GitHub page: https://github.com/bobbimanners/EightBall There is now a comp command which compiles the language to bytecode for the EightBall VM (also new with this release.) The compiled code runs much faster than interpreted ...

Right now I am interpreting the text directly, which is slow. However it is quite convenient to be able to load and save ASCII files and exchange them between systems this way (with some help from petcat!) I am planning on moving to a tokenized representation, which should speed things up. I am also...

So annoying .. every year I am out of the country when this happens! (I live in Toronto.)

I have been doing a bit more work on my little programming language interpreter project and thought that maybe it was time to let some other people play with it. This started out as a VIC-20 project (VICScript) but now supports C64 and Apple IIe/c as well. Accordingly I renamed it to EightBall "...

I think that is a symptom of a bad VIA (6522) chip. Maybe try swapping the two and see if it causes other issues (for example keyboard problems). If so, it is a bad VIA.

OMG that is a life saver!

I have been reading your postings on comp.sys.apple2 cbmeeks

I guess I really like the idea of all those expansion slots in the //e! I had a II+ for many years as a kid. The //c is nice, but the slots are a big part of what the Apple II is all about IMO. (Also all the //c machines I see these days are very yellow, while the //e I just bought looks to be prist...

... hmmm looks like I am now the proud owner of an Apple //e ...

Awesome - definitely going to have to play with this

That explains why my Omega Race works