[Coco] CoCo BASIC Interpreter

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Feb 19 22:50:32 EST 2021


On Feb 19, 2021, at 9:37 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Since CoCo BASIC is an interpreted language, I assume CoCo’s interpreter reads a line of BASIC code, then translates that to some version of machine code, then executes that ML code, then returns to the interpreter for the next line of BASIC.

It looks at a byte, jumps to ROM code, then gets the next byte. More or less.


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