[Coco] BASIC compiler for Rainbow IDE ?

Kevin Diggs kevdig at hypersurf.com
Thu May 15 06:48:45 EDT 2008


Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> I'm speaking of a BASIC to machine language compiler with 6809 or 6309 
> support.  Not just standard CoCo BASIC could be compiled but that with 
> longer variable names, no line numbers, labeled lines, etc.
> 
>  From what I understand, the Urbane processor program reads in another 
> enhanced BASIC program and turns it into a standard BASIC program, am I 
> correct?  So our two systems are completely different.  The end result 
> is still a BASIC program, which is great, but a compiler would turn it 
> into optimized machine code.
> 
> I aim to produce stand-alone programs that only include commands that 
> are used, and no ROM calls will be made.
> 

What was that thing that Boisy (he still here?) did? Couldn't that be 
used  as a basis for a compiler?

kevin



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