Subj : Re: BASIC 7.0
To   : Janne Johansson
From : Shaun Bebbington
Date : Tue Jun 05 2018 06:00:25

On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:54:42 UTC+1, Janne Johansson  wrote:
> On 2018-06-04 22:25, Shaun Bebbington : Fred wrote:
>
> > So it's not possible to port BASIC 7 to the C64 somehow?
>
> When you have a hard time getting the answer you like, perhaps you
> should take a step back and describe your ultimate goal.
>
> People here tend to try to see beyond the obvious "if you cant find it,
> its not there and noone did it", but it's hard to imagine you want the
> super obvious answer, or a Yes/No to the above question since that will
> just spur further questions when that wasn't the actual end goal.

Yes.

> There is a BASIC on the C64, there are other BASICs with improvements,
> there is BASIC 7 for non-C64 platforms which you can emulate, and you
> can dive in to the BASIC 7 code and do the grunt work and port it
> yourself, or you could actually state what your end goal is to getting
> that specific dialect onto a C64 apart from just seeing BASIC 7 on a
> C64, since that smells like a solution to something you haven't
> disclosed yet, which is why you get so many disparate answers.

Yes.

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