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Poppy Guru  Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
IF not mentioned yet ... Germany 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKSUemZ8HA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4GTozEtGE  Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
That made me wish I'd taken German at school. lol It's nice to see that BASIC isn't dead in an educational environment. After all, that's what it was originally intended for. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Anything in English? I found Academic BASIC to be about the Bible!! John |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
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phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2640 |
"It's nice to see that BASIC isn't dead in an educational environment." My first contact with BASIC was EduBASIC on a DEC PDP8 Mini Computer - the size of a refrigerator. The terminal was a Teletype machine with paper tape attachment. Both EduBASIC and the machine were truly basic. |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
My first contact was on my Nascom-1. That machine had 2 EPROM sockets, which were used by the monitor. Luckily one small supplier could offer an additional board for the NASBUS that would take the Nascom-2 8kB BASIC ROM. So a minimal system consisting of a Nascom-1 (with T2 or T4 monitor), Buffer board (to convert the Nascom-1 to NASBUS), a 3-slot NASBUS motherboard, a 4kB (or was it 8k?) RAM board and the new EPROM board could be put together (with the keyboard, TV, cassette recorder and optional(!) power supply, of course). If you wanted to get rid of having to use EDIT <line_number> all the time you could get proper on-screen editing with a few modifications: Swap your existing monitor for the new NasSys monitor (to get cursor key support) and modify your Nascom-1 keyboard by adding additional keys to it (the spaces were already there). If you were rich (or hadn't already spent all your money on Nascom-1 kit) you could get a Nascom-2, of course, which already had BASIC on-board. It should have had enough RAM on board too, but due to world-wide shortages of that RAM chip, the first ones were supplied with a free memory board. Later, one of the Nascom magazines ran a monthly listing of the Nascom 8k BASIC ROM, so effectively Microsoft 8k BASIC 4.7 for the Z80 became available to anyone for free, if they were willing to mess with it a bit. :) That version is still around on the internet and has been used on a few projects now. Edited 2021-10-10 17:01 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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IanT Senior Member  Joined: 29/11/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 108 |
I wasn't exactly rich at the time (and I'm still not) but I did "build" a Nascom II and then spent a day (and night) tracking down all the dry joints. I was truly quite emotional and very tired when I finally managed to get the red LED blinking on and off at one second intervals. My girlfriend (now wife) was completely baffled by all the fuss. Recently found a Nasbus Z80 CPU and two 256k memory boards I must have got from somewhere (never used them) but I wish I'd kept the Nascom which disappeared somewhere/sometime along the way in the past 40+ years.... Regards, IanT |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
There's an active Nascom group Here if you're interested. You may be able to find a Nascom-2 (they are NOT cheap now!) or a buyer for those bits. One of the members has now produced the Nascom-4 - a new interpretation on a FPGA, but with SDcard storage and a lot of compatibility. Edited 2021-10-10 18:35 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
FYI: The second video shows an ECG (a kind of) for a Maximite based on an AD8232. Peter already presented something like this here 1/2019. It reminded me that I still had the components in the box unused. It should be easy to convert to the newer Mites (CMM2, Armmite F4, Picomite). Something for a little winter project ...  Regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| IanT Senior Member Joined: 29/11/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 108 |
Not sure I'm going to dive back into 8-bits after all this time Mick but I have applied to join the Group - so you never know. At the very least I know where to find a good home for anything I have (Nasbus related) that I don't want anymore. In theory, I'm trying to downsize a bit! Thanks & Regards, IanT |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
Instructive video's !!! The 3'rd video (with digital filtering) did not appear. Probably because he is running on the edge of what a 80MHz MM can do (every 10ms draw a box, draw a line, measure and ADC value, and some math). The filtering will probably not be possible, unless it is a very simple PID alike based on 3 samples. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Which one exactly, I cant follow, please tell the URL or link. Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
Video 1 is from Jan 2021 Video 2 is from Feb 2021 In video 2 he announces video 3, where he will add digital filtering. Video 3 did not show on Youtube until now (Okt 2021, 8 months later). I guess he did not succeed, and changed subject for the next video... Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Thanks. Surely this issue was just secondary. As he says in the video he was just surprised how powerful MMBASIC and therefore easy to use it is. Probably someone should tell him about the PICOMITE ... Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
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