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Generally considered to be the best Basic variant, I wonder if it can be ported to Sega consoles/computers?

hmmm interesting... I guess it depends on if the SMS has enough resources to run it. Change any of the I/O, sound, or graphics commands as well if it has any that are custom to the bbc line.

Someone had a project to convert Sega Basic to SMS a few years back, with commands for the system's capabilities - I think most Basics are designed that way. Obviously it's tricky saving and loading files, though...

It would be interesting to see a floppy disk drive and some disk commands... I dont know how a write command would work but a read command could be simple given the drive had 48k of cache ram and the read command just dumped a new sector into a part of cache similar to bank swapping with a sega mmc.
I wonder if anyone has really attempted to make any of the Sega home consoles into a full fledged home micro computer? (well not including the Dreamcast)

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Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	BBC Basic for Z80 is now open source Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:38 am
	http://cowlark.com/2019-06-14-bbcbasic-opensource/ Generally considered to be the best Basic variant, I wonder if it can be ported to Sega consoles/computers?

IllusionOfMana Joined: 08 Sep 2018 Posts: 270	Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:46 pm
IllusionOfMana Joined: 08 Sep 2018 Posts: 270	hmmm interesting... I guess it depends on if the SMS has enough resources to run it. Change any of the I/O, sound, or graphics commands as well if it has any that are custom to the bbc line.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:32 pm
	Someone had a project to convert Sega Basic to SMS a few years back, with commands for the system's capabilities - I think most Basics are designed that way. Obviously it's tricky saving and loading files, though...

IllusionOfMana Joined: 08 Sep 2018 Posts: 270	Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 3:56 am
IllusionOfMana Joined: 08 Sep 2018 Posts: 270	It would be interesting to see a floppy disk drive and some disk commands... I dont know how a write command would work but a read command could be simple given the drive had 48k of cache ram and the read command just dumped a new sector into a part of cache similar to bank swapping with a sega mmc. I wonder if anyone has really attempted to make any of the Sega home consoles into a full fledged home micro computer? (well not including the Dreamcast)

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