Two years in the archives before being featured. I wonder if that's some kind of a record. :-)

The last update must have put it over the top. :-)

I used the 83plus asm in 28days to figure out some command details, even though I use an 86. It's a really good tutorial.

It seems like a good tutorial, if my computer would just cooperate with me... It is not allowing me to do the things in msdos that the tutorial requests...

What is your problem? (no don't take it the wrong way). I can help you out (if you need help).

Please Register At the link above to join my free message board i just setup today you can post any topics either calc related or not i dont care

Oh yeah please spread the word that every one is welcome to join (IT'S FREE!!)

-thx-

not to bring you down but is there ever a message board that isn't free?

Yes Thats true but i have actually seen some where you have to pay like 10 dollars a month to be able to post a message.

Do reply with a link to that. I want to go there and degrade their forums. That is the stupidest thing anyone can do!

Yet there are stupid people that will do it.

I just realized, there isn't a single 68k BASIC tutorial anywhere on the site. Not even a crappy one!

That is because the manual does a really good job explaining most of the programming commands. That is where I learned how to program my TI-89...

If I ever get around to it, I will write one for the 89, which should work for all 68k calcs at my site, click link.

That's pretty cool how you have all the calcs pictured on your site... now all you need is the Voyage 400 ;-) That would be really funny if you posted that there, LOL

LOL. I wonder how much curiousity mail I would get from people who does not visit this site, and think it is real... There would be a lot of mad people...

...Or confused stupid people.

BASIC is NOT programming. (Well, REAL programming.)

True, but it is a pretty good start. Thanks to basic, I'm now programming in Python and JavaScript.

BASIC is programming, at least in the way I define 'programming.' How do you define 'programming?'

-It has functions and statements
-It has file manipulation
-It passes instructions to a processor
-It can crash the device
-It requires skill
-It is not confined to an internet browser
-It can perform operations (it isn't a markup language)
-It can change the configuration of the device
-It can make global changes
-It can access machine code

What else? How isn't that real?

"-It can crash the device"

LOL. I wonder how many times I have done that in BASIC... Something about not finishing the code... The calc just does not like that...

Do tell me how one can crash a calculator using Basic.

I think that newList(x) with x undefined will overflow a register.

I think you can also archive something over and over, and that has to do something. And wouldn't the value just wrap around to the beginning of the register or something?

Archiving repeatedly destroys the ROM chip.

It does not wrap around. It attempts to assign to a location that doesn't exist.

Also:

fill(x) does something, which I forget, and you can always type something random like N9C4237GH9G4OVR048 into the Exec() function.

I can do it really easily with Omnicalcs functions "Getlink" and "Sendlink".

Hey! don't dis JavaScript!

I didn't. JavaScript is a very good *scripting* language.

It's incredibly slow and VERY high level, especially z80 BASIC. Higher than PHP.

High level? As in? What's bad about that?

If it's written intelligently, it's just as fast as to be indistinguishable from ASM. I compared execution speeds once, and the difference was so small that I couldn't measure it (less than .05 seconds).

The program was factoring a large number, by the way (I forget what it was).