Getting started

[2k.]

Hi there

After an absence of about 20 years I have decided to start a little bit of VIC programming, I have VICE up and running and thought before I start coding in assembler I might have a bash at cbm basic first. My plan is in time to buy myself another VIC at some point over the next few months (my parents threw out my original when I went to uni).

My question is how to start? I know that I can enter the code straight into VICE but I'd rather use a more modern IDE, so the first question is what do people recommend bearing in mind I use Linux. from having a play around with VICE it seems that it isn't possible to copy and past code into it (please correct me if i'm wrong) so presumably I need a way of compiling / interpreting the code to a file that can be run on VICE?

I have been trawling the internet for a few days now looking for answers to these questions but drawing a blank, most of the stuff i find is quite high level where as I need a beginners guide to VICE and CBM programming on Linux

Apologies if you feel i'm wasting your time
Mike

[PhilRanger]

For me, I really enjoy CBM programming studio. You can program in basic or assembly (I mainly do assembly though)

[2k.]

Hi there

I have tried to get cbmprgstd to work under WINE or MONO but unfortunately I have been unable to as of yet.

[rhurst]

Perhaps this might help if you are using Linux for CBM BASIC programming... petcat is your friend, do `man petcat` for full details.

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$ vim hello.bas
10 input"your name";a$
20 ifa$=""thenend
30 print"{down}hello, ";a$;"{down}"
40 run

$ petcat -l 1001 -o hello.p00 -w2 hello.bas
$ xvic -autostart hello.p00

The -l 1001 is to load code @ unexpanded VIC memory address. Change to -l 1201 if you need to use 8k+ expansion. The -w2 mght not be necessary; it enforces BASIC 2.0 tokenization. And use whatever text editor suits you.

The reverse is true, too, you can petcat hello.p00 to get back your text file. A dump of the "binary" reveals the format:

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$ hexdump -C hello.p00 
00000000  01 10 15 10 0a 00 85 22  59 4f 55 52 20 4e 41 4d  |......."YOUR NAM|
00000010  45 22 3b 41 24 00 22 10  14 00 8b 41 24 b2 22 22  |E";A$."....A$.""|
00000020  a7 80 00 39 10 1e 00 99  22 11 48 45 4c 4c 4f 2c  |...9....".HELLO,|
00000030  20 22 3b 41 24 3b 22 11  22 00 3f 10 28 00 8a 00  | ";A$;".".?.(...|
00000040  00 00                                             |..|

[2k.]

Fantastic

Thanks very much!

Out of curiosity would this work with an actual VIC or just VICE? Either way as I don't have a VIC yet it's not a pressing problem at the moment.

thanks again
Mike