Extended color basic commands

These involve extending basic or replacing it completely. The tandy color computer line started in 1980 with what is now called the coco 1 and ended in 1991 with the more powerful coco 3. These 16 colors can be used in all possible screenmodes, for chars, the screen background or frame or for sprites multicolor, hires, etc. Instant art ui th easy to use keys going everywhere at once sample program no. Color table utilities for color table selection and editing. Pclear 0 to get more coco basic memory subetha software. It has a rich set of subcommands that create, modify, and manage the information in vobs and views. Applesoft basic is a dialect of microsoft basic, developed by marc mcdonald and ric weiland, supplied with the apple ii series of computers. Photoshop cs6 retains all it had in previous versions, and provides new features to help you with your tasks, such as a darker, more immersive, user interface, true vector shape layers, the oil paint filter, adaptive wide angle correction, contentaware move tool, new brush tips, and more. The gw basic users guide is divided into six chapters, nine appendixes, and a glossary. The command command starts a new instance of the command. Disk basic commands backup source drive to destination drive duplicatesthe contents of the disk in the source drive on the disk in the destination.

The third chapter discusses the conventions of operation with ti extended basic. There are minor variations and discrepancies between markdown processors those are noted inline wherever possible. Ess ooeoooeooeeoooec eoooeooeeoooeooc ooeooeecooeoooec eooeeceoeooceooc e oooe. Commands in command blocks can be preceded by a slash, but it is not required. The standard version of basic does not include such commands so they must be accomplished using multiple commands. The following modes of the cocos motoroal 6847 vdg chip video display generator were implemented. Statements audio on audio off circlex,y,r,c,hw,start,end clear n,h reserve n bytes for strings, and use only up to address h for basic cload cload name cloadm cloadm name cloadm name,offset close d cls c color fg,bg cont csave name csave name,a csavem name,a1,a2,ax data def fn defusern addr del dim dload draw string edit linenumber end exec exec address for. The radioshack trs80 color computer later marketed as the tandy color computer and sometimes nicknamed the coco is a line of home computers based on the motorola 6809 processor. The trailing edge resource center color computer disk. To view this in photoshop, select edit keyboard shortcuts or use the following keyboard shortcuts. All other trs80 operating systems with a disk basic supported these commands, although often cmd and name used different syntax. Battle cry all that you can dream of about this great game by richard borg published by gmt games llc.

Like its companions for the apple, atari, and pet computers, this book is designed as a textbook. The other reference link shows other helpful tables such as sound, and mathematical functions. This first version is quite rare and suffered several problems. Color basic, extended color basic, color disk basic summaries of the commands and functions available in the differenct levels of color basic. But it does have 64k of ram, extended color basic, and a disk drive, so most of my programs currently depend on that. Heres a description from a 1979 radio shack catalog.

Level ii is an advanced or extended version of the basic programming language. This list contains every command ever made available, which means not all the commands are going to work with your version of msdos or windows. The 16 colors available included white, black and transparent. Unlike most basics of the home computer era, atari basic is not a derivative of microsoft basic, and differs in significant ways. Color computer 3 basic quick reference guide author. Maps, scenarios, downloads, rules summaries, army list, scenariox, variants home battlecry commands and colors system. Model i trsdos disk basic contained a number of extra commands and enhancements to level ii basic, not all related to disk. Color computer 2 cocopedia the tandyradio shack color. Call color and call screen used numeric color codes.

That is how i learned basic and extended basic and there are lots of examples each builds upon the previous. If you omit the buffer, the computer closes all open files. From controlling philips hue smart lights to delivering coronavirus updates, alexa brings a lot of talents to bear. Basic beginners allpurpose symbolic instruction code is a high level language with simple syntax that makes it easy for novices to write simple programs.

For reading a two byte value this is usually how it is done. Plugging in the standard although there were two versions radio shack disk controller, gave you disk extended basic, or rsdos. It first appeared in 1975 as altair basic, which was the first version of basic published by microsoft as well as the first highlevel programming language available for the altair 8800 microcomputer during the home computer craze during the late1970s and early1980s, microsoft basic was ported to and supplied with. Before long, radio shack began to offer an additional model of the coco 2. Or at least just enough of them to get the desired results. It is recognizing the controller, fwiw, its booting to the disk extended basic. Photoshop cs6 allinone for dummies cheat sheet dummies. Basic drawing commands for autocad measuring commands grid. The fourth chapter is a reference section which discusses, in alphabetical order, all ti extended basic commands, statements, and functions. Microsoft extended basic for c64 part 2 commodore64crap. Anyway, ive finally got motivated to work with the ol coco again, got everything dug out and hooked up, but i have no idea what the commands are for the drive. This is an alphabetical list of basic dialects interpreted and compiled variants of the basic programming language. While there are a number of vi commands, just a handful of these is usually sufficient for beginning vi users.

Extended color basic tandy computers atariage forums. Sys file to set the startup configuration that will be used if no key is pressed within. Below is a listing of each of the msdos and windows command line commands listed on computer hope and a brief explanation of what each does. The optional extended basic rom adds extra graphics commands and other assorted functionality enhancements.

Chapter 1, welcome to gw basic, describes this manual. It is also referred to as fp basic from floating point because of the apple dos command used to invoke it, instead of int for. There have been two or three different approaches to fixing the totally inadequate, crappy commodore basic v2 on the c64. Extended color basic summary under construction, more details on the way. Apr 07, 20 now we try to recreate some of the basic commands i used. Color colllllllter disk system trademarks of tandy corporation. Once you connect a floppy disk drive to your color computer, you automatically start up in disk basic whenever you turn on the computer. With practice, these commands should become automatic. By using the extended color mode the size of the character set is reduced. This is a list of all the type commands which can be used in everquest. Looking thru the commented source disassembly, i discovered that if it was acceptable to completely replace the functionality of the commands i had 27 bytes for lpeek and 45 bytes for lpoke to work with. Site contains emulators, programs, manuals, books, patches, games, hints, discussions, questions, forums, and tons more. Nearly all markdown applications support the basic syntax outlined in john grubers original design document.

In addition to the capabilities of extended color basic, color disk basic adds the following. Without a disk drive, the cocos would run color basic, and you had to purchase the extended color basic rom to take advantage of extra graphics. Super extended basic is the definitive source of information on the super high resolution graphics commands and basic enhancements available from the color. Every alexa command you can give your amazon echo smart speaker. If you have only one drive, specify it as the source drive. The commands in windows are available from the command prompt and are called command prompt commands or cmd commands, but they are not dos commands. Every data line can hold a number of elements, separated by commas. They were very well written and clear enough, even, for a 4th grader to understand although i continued to read and refer to it. The color command is available in windows 8, windows 7, windows vista, and windows xp. Extended color basic to arduino sketch, part 4 subetha. Specifies a round off interval so that points entered with the mouse can be locked into alignment with the grid spacing. By using the basic command poke, any of the 256 chars of the c64 can be placed in the video matrix poke 1024,1 this example will display the char a into the left upper corner 0 row, 0 column. Sep 19, 2019 do you have access to the original manuals set.

So i had the idea of rewriting the super extended color basic commands lpeek and lpoke to perform double byte reads and writes. Tandyradio shack book getting started with extended. Super extended basic unravelled will provide the reader with a complete detailed and fully commented source listing of the super highresolution graphics package of radio shacks color basic. New sounds and characters the tones available to you in extended color basic come via the play and sound commands. Extend line indefinitely extend two elements to intersection extend element to intersection. Ados lets you edit the last command line using the basic line editor. Dos with the os9 system diskette in drive 0, the dos command boots the os9 operating system. Atari basic is an interpreter for the basic programming language that shipped with the atari 8bit family of 6502based home computers. Microsoft extended basic for the commodore 64 part 2 gwbasic for c64 startup screen opening up a whole new world for the c64 there have been two or three different approaches to fixing the totally inadequate, crappy commodore basic v2 on the c64. The most basic and useful commands are marked with an asterisk or star in the tables below.

This includes hardware initialization, memory management, interrupt processing, etc. The following functions mimic some of the extended color basic commands. Color basic is the implementation of microsoft basic that is included in the rom of the. Super extended basic unravelled will deal with the enhancements to color computer basic that make basic versions 2. When the clear command is entered everything is forgotten except the actual program and the number of string storage bytes that should be reserved. Tandyradio shack book getting started with extended color. Prints a comma immediately preceding every third digit counting to the left from the. This is a newer version coco2 that uses a 28 pin socket instead of 2 24 pin sockets found in earlier models. The standard version of basic does not include such commands so. You can view, edit, and summarize keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard shortcuts dialog box. Drive drive number changes the default drive to the drive you specify. Jul 16, 2014 microsoft extended basic for the commodore 64 part 2 gwbasic for c64 startup screen opening up a whole new world for the c64. The below links will offer a quick lookup of a command,statement, or function for console basic or extended basic.

The color command is used to change the colors of the text and background within the command prompt window. Displays a grid of dots at a desired spacing on the screen. The above support extends to additional addons if they use getabilityname or getabilityicon functions for example combat metrics will show the correct iconname for incoming healing tracked from templarrestoration staff skills with lui extended enabled. It supersedes integer basic and is the basic in rom in all apple ii series computers after the original apple ii model. Undo can in fact undo several operations back sucessively, or to a mark that you set, or until the.

Getting started with extended color basic trs80 color. Commands in a command block usually also require an argument, like a. It cant cover every edge case, so if you need more information about any of these elements, refer to our reference guides for basic syntax and extended syntax. This site is the result of an effort to preserve color computer software and documentation. Then came the first attempt at an extended basic xb, in module format, which returned the value of 100 with call versiona. Statements audio on audio off circlex,y,r,c,hw,start,end clear n,h reserve n bytes for strings, and use only up to address h for basic cload cload name cloadm cloadm name cloadm name,offset close d cls c color fg,bg cont csave name csave name,a csavem name,a1,a2. I am just wondering if anyone knows where i can obtain the rom image of color basic and extended color basic to burn onto a 27128 28 pin eprom chip for my tandy color computer 2 model 2634b. To assist such users, this web page contains a sampling of basic vi commands. Jan 16, 2015 on the radio shack color computer, extended color basic added new commands to access high resolution graphics modes. This little machine had such an incredibly powerful basic interpreter that i was completely absorbed by the included getting started with color basic and going ahead with extended color basic tutorial books.

To change colors of sprites or hiresgraphics in basic the command poke memory address, color. Disk management commands backup n to m copy all files from one disk to another backup n backup a disk using only a single disk drive copy file1 to file2 make a duplicate of a file dir n list the files that are on. In this mode only 64 chars are available, because from 0, 64, 128. Ive got too many programs on the disk to see the full listing. We believe that color and extended basic unravelled were used as a guideline during the creation of super extended basic 2. Arguments in cleartool commands specify objects, either file system objects which may or may not be in a vob or nonfilesystem vob objects. Windows cmd commands list extended, usage of command prompt. Commands may also be entered in a multiplayer servers console, but are not preceded by a when entered this way. Disk basic summary in addition to the capabilities of extended color basic, color disk basic adds the following. These basic versions were introduced in the color computer 3.

Color basic is the implementation of microsoft basic that is included in the rom of the tandyradio shack trs80 color computers manufactured between 1980 and 1991. Disk management commands backup n to m copy all files from one disk to another backup n backup a disk using only a single disk drive copy file1 to file2 make a duplicate of a file dir n list the files that are on the disk. Chapter 2, getting started with gw basic, is an elementary guideline on how to begin programming. It resides on 8k bytes of rom, and is responsible for all housekeeping duties on the system. Applesoft basic includes a special data command which lets you specify numeric or string information the program can read.

The other reference link shows other helpful tables such. You can customize the keyboard shortcuts in photoshop on the desktop. Microsoft basic is the foundation software product of the microsoft company. You can verify that you have properly connected your disk interface cartridge and disk drive by looking at the screen.

If you have a color computer and are taking your first steps in basic, richard haskells book, trs80 extended color basic, can help make sure your feet are firmly planted. These commands retrieve an object that has info about the powershell console itself, the console host. Statements audio on audio off circle x, y, r, c, hw, start, end clear n. This markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the markdown syntax elements. Trs80 revived site by ira goldklangs is an archive of everything related to the tandy radio shack trs80 microcomputer lines. These are the elements outlined in john grubers original design document. Upgrading to extended color basic on a coco 2 2634b. Undo remember that you can undo any command or operation after it has been done. A server admin running commands in this way is often referred to as ghosting. The basic command exec 41175 will display the color basic rom version in an extended color basic machine. Try it in the ide, to see if you like the look of it and who wouldnt. The nucleus of color basic was microsoft basic69 which tandy licensed from microsoft. Disk basic commands backup source drive to destination drive duplicatesthe contents of the disk in the source drive on the disk in the destination drive.