David Emmons

I can get an older version of BASIC-256 running on NT 4,0 but the BASIC dialect is different. Here is my simple code that works on win2k, WIN7, and Zorin 16 (Linux): c = 1 home: cls color grey rect 0,0,300,300 color white x = int(RAND * 300) y = int(RAND * 300) print x print y print print c text x,y, "This is a test" for b = 1 to 300000 next b c = c + 1 goto home It runs fine on all but that older version (version 0.8). One of a few things it does not like is the "GOTO home" statement; or the "text...

I can get an older version of BASIC-256 running on NT 4,0 but the BASIC dialect is different. Here is my simple code: c = 1 home: cls color grey rect 0,0,300,300 color white x = int(RAND * 300) y = int(RAND * 300) print x print y print print c text x,y, "This is a test" for b = 1 to 300000 next b c = c + 1 goto home It runs fine on all but that older version (version 0.8). One of things it does not like is the "GOTO home" statement; or the "text x,y, "This is a test". Is there documentation for 0.8?...

I can get an older version of BASIC-256 running on NT 4,0 but the BASIC dialect is different. Here is my simple code: c = 1 home: cls color grey rect 0,0,300,300 color white x = int(RAND * 300) y = int(RAND * 300) print x print y print print c text x,y, "This is a test" for b = 1 to 300000 next b c = c + 1 goto home It runs fine on all but that older version (version 0.8). One of things it does not like is the "GOTO home" statement; or the "text x,y, "This is a test". Is there documentation for 0.8?...