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Examples of games made in Sega Basic
Post Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:57 pm
Hi, I don't own a Sega SG-1000 or MIII, or SC-3000 yet but considering buying my 1st. I am located in the USA by the way.

Are there any examples of video games created for the SC-3000, as example, in the Basic that came with this computer?

Any names and links to videos showing the game in play would be great!

Just curious if there was anything made in Basic for now.

My guess folks that made games used other programming languages but since the system came with Basic, I wanted to start to explore there.

Thanks

TJ
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Post Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:54 pm
I believe anything that was stored on tape would have used basic to a certain extent. Theres a bunch of dumps that were posted here not so long ago that may be of interest...

https://www.smspower.org/forums/18696-SC3000SurvivorsTapeDumps
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:03 pm
There are listings in the magazines of the time. Have a look at
https://archive.org/details/segacomputer
or
https://segaretro.org/Sega_Pasokon_SC-3000_Series_BASIC_Nyuumon
Some hobbiest works can be found here

https://www.smspower.org/Scans/Francomputer-Magazine

I developed a set of tools that let you write programs on a pc and save them either as audio or as a SF-7000 floppy image.

https://github.com/fabiodl/sctape

Since to the moment I have been the only user (apart a brief moment in which I had a whopping 2 users count, including myself :D) it's pretty much undocumented, but let me know if you need any clarification.

Some quick notes on how to use MAME, all standard stuff, but which may come useful if you never stumbled upon it.
Starting:
mame sc3000
presents a prompt for the cart/cassette files. You can specify directly form the command line with
mame sc3000 -cart /path/to/basicIII.sc -cfg_directory ~/.mame/cfg/ -cass tapefile.tzx
Keyboard not working:
Press scroll lock, tab,Keyboard mode and set Sega SK-1100 Keyboard to enabled
Tape loading
Press scroll lock (if not pressed before), tab,tape control play.
To load another tape (the second part in a multipart tape, etc.) press
scroll lock (if not pressed before), tab, file manager and choose the cassette (cass) filename, then press escape, tape control, play
To fast forward while loadign tapes, press F10. F10 may be also mapped to reset of the SC-3000 keyboard. You may change the input for this machine using the usual scroll lock, tab, Input (this machine)[/img]
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Post Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:03 pm
Are there efforts to collect listings from magazines, enter them and thus preserve them for posterity?
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:18 am
That is something I would be very interested in too. I listed some of the software here. The count is several hundreds now, but I believe it’s still under 20% of what was produced

https://sc3000.neocities.org/

It would be nice to set up a wiki. I could then use the tools above to automatically generate playable audio files or floppy disk images.
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