Little but important stuff.
DIR columnates output, in case I write 60+ programs.
REDIR works so it really is a menu front end. With the font specified, bitmaps sorta work (it overlaps a little, I'll probably need to intercept & draw real bitmaps).
Fixed a couple stupid little bugs (probably less parse errors locking up the page).
Forgot to attach:
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing
I still need to adjust the "tractor feed paper" to be the exact font size & maybe make holes with CSS? The sound is horrible but it's pass 1, as noted I'll probably get a sample.
Latest addition to
THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/basic.html
is a (virtual) line printer!
LLIST your program to paper, LPRINT funny messages or pictures of Snoopy, and copy them out with a single button. Tear Off to remove the old "paper". It's so easy!
Added a tutorial to TinyBasicWeb
ON THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing
I'll start doing some real work with this in a minute. Just easier to bug-fix and docs first. Have a couple thoughts about getting program output in a period-appropriate way: LINE PRINTER!
You can now paste directly into BASIC with your usual ⌘V or ^V on
THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online/basic/
63 ASCII char lines max, please.
However copy only dumps text into console, because it's impossible to predict what'll be hard or easy in JS. Paste looks like more of a security problem! But copy is locked down! I'm gonna try stupid hidden element tricks tomorrow but I've got the post-coffee jitters now and shouldnae code any longer.
Almost literally hit ENTER and it's finished.
Before tonight, if you ran this it'd get from 99 to 80s, then slow to a dead crawl at the end of the lines.
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing
I've been working on optimizing Terminal performance, it used to REALLY lag out on long text printing across lines or scrolling.
Not now! It's too fast to measure! Tho I lost the pulsing cursor, but even if I put that back it'll still be drawing at native speed.
I don't want to write a buffer to make it slow down to some terminal speed, but I kinda ought to. Or add a PAUSE command so you can make fake slowdown.
Also maybe text aligned better on non-Safari?
#cyberhole #basic #retrocomputing
Exploring the TRS-80’s Color BASIC’s Random Number Function - Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty go... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/exploring-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/ #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #pseudorandom #trs-80 #basic
TinyBasicWeb: Implemented string comparison, and fixed some input bugs. It's more usable now!
@vidak
Two #ch32v003 (~$1) and you have a Spectrum-style computer
However, programming will take much longer (the author estimates approximately one year).
The author already had experience with #basic bios on another microcontroller: https://www.breatharian.eu/hw/atx80/index_en.html
I have to give it to Eben Upton: the Pi 400/500 are the spiritual successors of 1980s Home Computers. Everything included in a keyboard package that you can connect to a TV. I also think BASIC Engine is/was the ideal BASIC for it. It’s sad it’s almost abandoned. 
#retrocomputing #basic #raspberrypi
1985
“BASIC was a fine tool to learn programming with. But #programs in it occupied far too much of the limited working #memory of a #microcomputer, and it was horribly slow.
The way to get anything ambitious done was to write the program directly in the language #BASIC translated into: #assembly code, only one layer up from the #silicon.
Suddenly, you were responsible for the entire flow of very simple commands that allowed the computer to function.”
40 years ago, Elite was created and released by #IanBell and #DavidBraben.
#Software / #Elite / #programming / #Cambridge / #computing / #BBCMicro <https://theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend>
A Proper Computer For a Dollar? - When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/01/a-proper-computer-for-a-dollar/ #retrocomputing #computerhacks #tinybasic #basic #ch32
Tiny afternoon update, added hurkle.bas so you can now
CHASE THE HURKLE
in the
CYBER HOLE
!!!
https://cyberhole.online/basic/basic.html?run=hurkle.bas
(yes, you can autorun a program from the URL!)
Which was very productive for finding a couple bugs/issues, but 98% worked as designed.
IT IS DONE! All functionality of TinyBasicWeb Level 1 works!
https://cyberhole.online/basic/basic.html
DIR ""
to see sample programs,
RUN "whatever"
to load & run.
You can make simple INPUT-based games!
There's no arrays yet, so don't get too hype, but for a lot of "prompt and show a thing" programs, it's good enough.
I have some network-related things to do next, so I can start using it for a general-purpose forms UI.
"tomorrow" being a vague time period, I did string variables and basic disk commands instead of INPUT (not hard, but paste is going to be a thing, so I'm "eh"). No more test program embedded in the source, it's just a file on disk (I think it's sanitized enough.)
Isn't it incredible there's a plugin for everything in #VSCode? XC=BASIC is a pretty obscure hobbyist language that I've played with! And it is covered. #retrocomputing #commodore #c64 #basic #xcbasic
Computer können spielen. Manchmal sogar gewinnen. Und bei gewissen Spielen könnten sie ganz einfach unbesiegbar sein. Geben sich aber absichtlich zurückhaltend, um dem Menschen vor dem Bildschirm den Spass nicht zu verderben.
So auch #Hexapawn, ein Mikro-Schach für #BASIC-Computer aus 1973, das – jedes Mal, wenn der Computer verliert – etwas besser wird, also "aus seinen Fehlern lernt".
Sublevelgames hat den faszinierenden Lern-Algorithmus spannend dokumentiert.
Oh, well GOTO, GOSUB, RETURN were trivial. If anyone wants to do some live testing, let me know, message me any program that doesn't work and should (read the spec, it's not "standard BASIC").
I'll do INPUT tomorrow, then it'll be donezo for now! I'm very likely to get bitmap fonts in then, too.
Then I can start moving MysticDungeon.club over. Probably all next month, tho some of them should be REAL fast, some quite hard to untangle from the node shit.
IF and LIST, with nice reformatting.
Might get done with L1 BASIC today!
#basic #retrocomputing #cyberhole
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