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Hi wysardry ! Would it be practical to create a virtual machine using ugBASIC? In reality it is opposite to the philosophy of ugBASIC: with ugBASIC you can use the language itself to write the game, and porting is the adaptation of what you have written with respect to the (small) differences. Thus ...

wysardry wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:14 pm How is support for the Sharp MZ series progressing?

Very slowly unfortunately, because I don't have any kind of support and the emulator is not very friendly.

[italian and french follow] https://retroprogramming.iwashere.eu/_media/creepy-carrots-315x250.jpg CREEPY CARROTS IS OUT! New game for Olivetti Prodest PC128 , written in ugBASIC : with a spell, an evil witch has transformed Wilbo the farmer into a were-rabbit. Help him free himself from the curse b...

[italian follows] https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE1MzQxNzc0LmpwZw==/315x250%23c/u5W1nm.jpg I am pleased to present my second ugBASIC program which I submitted to participate in the BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024.It is a single multitasking player arcade game, which runs on three different 8-bit home compu...

[italian follows] https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE1MDA0NDAxLmpwZw==/315x250%23c/wPM8a7.jpg I am pleased to present my first ugBASIC program which I submitted to participate in the BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024.It is a single multitasking player arcade game, which runs "as is" on three different...

Hi PaoloRaven , first of all, thank you very much for the message! I try to answer each question precisely, let's see if we can solve it. If anything, if there are any fixes, I implement them in the beta version to keep them until the next official release. 1) ASM implementation is foggy: some comma...

[italian and french follow] https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/assets/img/examples/vdg_bladerunner.png Image from TRS-80 Color Computer 3 version VIDEOGAME ISPIRED: BLADE RUNNER OPENING This code will draw the opening title of the "Blade Runner" videogame, developed by Westwood Studios and publis...

[italian and french follow] :arrow: english Good morning everyone! I'm not entirely sure it is a bug. The problem involves a form of "relaxation" of the syntax with the GLOBAL command. I'll explain. The GLOBAL command allows you to tell ugBASIC to consider a variable as "global"...

Hi ldir_hector ! I use enable peephole optimizations up to 16 passes and enable listing and enable additional info. Does this options increase the compilation time ? Surely, the option for additional information slows down the compilation a lot. It actually depends on the size of the generated assem...

Hi ldir_hector ! I'm sorry but I don't understand the N in BR2NR4D4R4UL2 The N command has the meaning of no update of drawing position. This is to draw a line as specified but do not use the end of the line as the new position. So, NR4D4 means: "draw a line of 4 pixel on the right ( R4 ), go b...