[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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