It might've been Portable 100 that did publish a program you could type in and scan barcodes that followed the source listing. I believe the scanning program actually opened a .DO file and saved the listing to ASCII. You then entered BASIC, LOAD/MERGE the .DO file, then SAVE it to .BA. I don't recall if it had any DATA that was used to POKE in a M/L routine or driver. It did require a lot of RAM and that limited the size of a program considerably. In any case, converting from .DO to .BA byte code takes more than renaming the file.
Thinking, it might be possible with a M/L routine from "Tandy Code" to enter TEXT from BASIC to edit source and scan each line of code in that way. Once returned to BASIC you could then SAVE the file to .BA with no extra .DO. GregS <>< Sent from my iPad > On Jun 21, 2024, at 2:49 PM, J S <crimsonc...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > I had a question. And it might already be solved but I don't see an answer on > how to do it. > > I'm a recent owner of both an 100 and a 200 model machines. I also have a > barcode pen. I've seen lots of information about using it for data entry and > business type applications but I have not seen any information on a way to > use it to load lines of programming. > > Back in the old magazines you could get the printout of a BASIC program and > type them in. I had read a long time ago about the possibility of converting > those programs to lines of barcodes that could make programs easier to enter, > albeit line by line. > > The idea would be that you would load a program that would let you scan those > barcodes one by one and save it to a data file. That file, when closed could > be renamed as the BA file and ran normally. > > Any help or ideas would be appreciated
