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CircuitGizmos

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Joined: 08/09/2011
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Posted: 08:16pm 28 Aug 2018

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I was sent a link for an online book that I have somewhere on a shelf. This book compared different BASIC dialects (at least from 1981).

The BASIC Handbook

I don't think that there is anything wanting in MMBasic.

Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite

Paul_L
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Posted: 10:02pm 28 Aug 2018

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That book is an old friend. Mine is upstairs in a box somewhere in the attic.

I always liked the combination PRINT @ x,y USING f$, a,b,c,d.

The FIELD 8 AS a$, 16 AS b$, .... was really handy if you were trying to manipulate database files is an abbreviated ISAM imitation.

Paul in NY

TassyJim

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Posted: 10:36pm 28 Aug 2018

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I have that (2nd) edition as well as the third edition.
I prefer the format of the second edition.

Both on the shelf within arms reach.

Jim

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Boppa
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Posted: 01:23am 29 Aug 2018

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I still have (and began using again with micromites) my old GWBasic manual (seem to work well enough with it to revitalise the old brain cells)

I couldnt believe how much I had forgotten when I started using it again

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