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2026-07-18 14:19:46 UTC

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yes. And I have learned quite a bit more since the last time we spoke about that!
I will return to Sunflower BASIC soon on this point, then. I am not so confused and disoriented about what is going on in Tiny BASIC now.
The pipeline is still:
Permacomputing -> Paper type in programs -> Tiny BASIC
Given microcontrollers can still be had cheaply, it makes sense to use them for a plug and play experience.

2026-07-18 14:08:48 UTC

Two ideas, both related to BASIC.
Number one, the best starting point to porting TBX (Dobbs, Feb 1976), is either the INSRT line insertion routine, or working through the jump tables. Maybe both.
Number two, what about a virtual machine, something in the vein of uxn, that runs BASIC as its opcodes?
Someone made an FPGA CPU that used BASIC statements as its opcodes, you can find it on hackaday.
https://hackaday.io/project/204482-cpu-running-basic

2026-07-06 18:13:01 UTC

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i think there's a few of those platforms where you can record instructionals/lectures and get paid for it

2026-06-28 11:12:48 UTC

If there was some readily available Lisp workstation/operating system, I would absolutely be using that instead of Unix.
I used to be quite vocal about my support for Lisp, but I suppose my evangelism has dropped off quite a bit.
This is not due to having given up Lisp, I am very much still in favour of it over other languages.
Usually the way I approach programming is to have some project or practical task to carry out.
Trying to think what my next Lisp project could be...

2026-06-23 16:35:12 UTC

Is there another CPU with something like the 6502's zero page RAM?
On the 6502, the first page of RAM can be accessed much faster than the rest.
You have the ability to make many many virtual registers in RAM at only the cost of a couple clock cycles.

2026-06-16 14:14:57 UTC

Worked on an ELIZA clone written in BASIC this evening, for the first chapter of the BASIC cookbook.
The code comes from the second of the two David Ahl books that compile many different games, all written in BASIC.
Lots of MID$, LEFT$, and RIGHT$ statements, which is to be expected because ELIZA is a pattern matching program.
BASIC has good string concatenation, variables are easy to define and assign, and string matching is also trivial.
#retrocomputing #basic

2026-06-16 09:42:17 UTC

doing some BASIC streaming right now
we're taking a tour through the David Ahl book--typing out the famous ELIZA clone that got published in the Creative Computing journal
https://www.twitch.tv/comrade_vidak
#basic #retrocomputing #ai
https://cdn.masto.host/acp/media_attachments/files/116/759/123/066/884/420/original/b07ac79197ac3a9f.jpg

2026-06-14 06:53:11 UTC

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Will Lua run on microcontrollers?
The idea is to target hardware which is exceedingly cheap and easily accessible.
How would that fit into using Lua as a programming language to target for the project?
cc @npub1ex6…6j2g ?
It dawns on me that older ewaste x86 or early amd64 machines could be targetted to Lua and LOVE?
Much of the oscillation around BASIC is to render code developed by the project in printed type in form.
Early Tiny BASIC is perfect for this reason.

2026-06-14 04:10:26 UTC

Regarding [@permacomputer](https://retro.social/@permacomputer ) --
The only reason I tried to embark on the task of writing a BASIC interpreter for the Arduino platform is to keep costs down.
I do not actually have a good grasp of the price of an Arduino Uno or Arduino Mega now.
An alternative is a retro 8 bit construction. There are plenty of 8080 and 6502 Tiny BASICs out there, the problem would be the reverse of an Arduino construction -- making this actual physical computer.
Watch his space.
#permacomputing #retrocomputing

2026-06-07 00:38:17 UTC

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Tiny BASIC spotted 👀

2026-06-03 18:40:25 UTC

I'd still love to make my own MP3 / audio player. Either in the classic altoids tin, or in some fucked up lumpy jiffy box.
Tech has moved on now, it would be so easy to do with a small Single Board Computer.

2026-06-03 01:39:48 UTC

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I meant to ask, what is wrong with slow?

2026-05-04 13:30:09 UTC

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i love but hate lemon64 hey. they were my intro to the commodore 64 but there are looooooads of the wrong type of nerd there, iykwim
kinda reminds me of the atariage forums, where they have for decades now banned all political language for that reason
i guess it works but jesus christ

2026-05-04 13:27:08 UTC

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what on earth is going on there

2026-04-27 15:39:21 UTC

Does anyone know any good input tablets for drawing and artwork that work well with Debian 13?
#askfedi

2026-04-19 19:28:53 UTC

🤔
FORTH text editors...
#retrocomputing #forth

2026-04-08 14:56:29 UTC

Dandelion BASIC Devlog.
I feel like giving up on this attempt at Dandelion BASIC.
The file is now 17KB full of bare metal assembly. Having to break this up into files now is going to be a nightmare to manage.
Assembled, I am looking at about 1.3K ROM/Arduino flash used.
Looking at the different C++ implementations, even they max out at thousands of lines of code.
I need to figure out exactly what it is I am chasing when I try and put all this effort into something crazy like another BASIC.

2026-04-02 18:00:23 UTC

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nah this was my GOBLINS game I wrote for Commodore 64 BASIC.
The reason I was disqualified is that I did not do the game during the jam, but nowhere did it say you had to complete the game during the event.

2026-04-02 17:54:56 UTC

Got disqualified from the BASIC jam on itch.io
The thing that hurts the most though is everyone complaining that the game required the installation of an emulator (?) and that the instructions for the game were too terse (???)
All the other games were made for windows, so I'm gonna call this a skill issue uwu

2026-03-22 13:36:50 UTC

If it is true that Google is no longer allowing installation of arbitrary apks on android phones, I am gonna have a big think about where to go with these bullshit smartphones.
A tablet? A dumb phone and a tablet? Sigh.
Sorry, why are these things any good?
I feel like if I lived in Asia this would not be such a problem. I could just jump to some other form factor really easily.
I really need the ability to run packages google doesn't like.

2026-03-13 13:15:10 UTC

I wanna get into FORTH one day.
I'm pretty sure I could be good at it, and I love so many of its features and advantages.

2026-03-06 21:59:12 UTC

Been working on publishing the various text editors and word processors I unearthed in my digital archeological dig.
All written in different BASIC flavours, each of them takes a different approach. Each of them comes in the form of a type in program. The years the pieces of software was released spans 1977 to 1983.
The people's permacomputer project will be updated here:
https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/
#permacomputing #retrocomputing #solarpunk

2026-02-25 09:02:53 UTC

This is where I post from btw.
https://cdn.masto.host/acp/media_attachments/files/116/130/452/225/681/864/original/3cea1fa705359a1e.jpg

2026-02-21 20:24:59 UTC

Fedi, can you help me?
How do you make your PCBs and then send off the files to have them made?
I have downloaded EasyEDA but I find the process of going from schematic to PCB difficult to understand.
Can someone link me to a guide or some sort of resource for making your own PCBs?
I do not think my requirements are overly complex. 100% through-hole construction.

2026-02-01 00:45:49 UTC

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what is that software?

2026-01-29 16:14:07 UTC

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ohh, completely missed that somehow.
Sorry, I thought this was your other project.

2026-01-29 16:12:43 UTC

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I'll have to have a look at your architecture.

2026-01-29 15:45:52 UTC

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what about something like a big page of memory accessible, like in the CHIP-8?
I liked the idea of having a really nice fast bit of memory to blit things from.

2026-01-04 18:23:34 UTC

Sunflower BASIC for uxn is compiled.
I wonder if that is a necessary property of Sunflower BASIC? I would really like to have an interpreted BASIC on uxn.
Uxn is a stack machine, so it should be quite trivial to implement the People's Computer Company Intermediate Language method.
Maybe this is my next big top level software passion project?
cc @npub1z8r…mrq6
#coding #minimalism #solarpunk #Permacomputing #uxn #dev