Ok, I already have a tool to convert old "noextend" basic+ to the newer "extend" format.
It is 'b1filter.cc' in the src directory of git clone http://github.com/khandy21yo/btran.git it handles the end-of-line stuff as well as the '&' for print. There are some things it doesn't handle, like missing semi-colons in PRINT statements. There are some of the '101 basic ganmes' in the 'examples' directory, as well as a 'unbac' which might be useful for some. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 6:58 PM, khandy21yo <khandy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rsts basic+ has two modes. Extend and noextend, > > Noextend is the original mode, where 'line continues with a linseed and > ends with a return. The & character works as a shortcut for print. > Statements were separated with a colon : > > Extend mode was changed things around. It was a later addition. 'line > continues used the &, statement separator was the /, and shortcuts were > gone. > > Put a line at the front of the code like '1 noextend and they may work > fine as is. > > > > > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> > Date: 1/25/18 6:15 PM (GMT-07:00) > To: Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> > Cc: Simh <simh@trailing-edge.com> > Subject: Re: [Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for > public access) > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > >> I thought Dave Ahl didn't come from that environment. > > > I'm pretty sure Ahl was in Education System's group, which I thought at > one point was in MRO (Marlboro). Small-systems was in the Mill. MRO was > 36-bit land. So he would have had access to the 10s, but I note you're > right there had been many 8s in the Education stream. > > That said, few HSs could even afford them. Folks in HS's (like my father > who was teaching Math in a HS outside of Philadelphia during that time > period) were most likely running on remote timesharing systems via dial-up > lines - with GE(Honywell)/Mark-IV being the giant in that business (my own > entry in the computers with him in '67 was on the Mark-II and Mark-III). > DEC's customers that were trying to get into that business were mostly > supported by PDP-10s, not small systems. > > RSTS Basic is a late entry, the language support for it, originally came > from the compiler group which again was originally PDP-10 based (also > remember the PDP-11 BLISS compiler needed a 10 to run it). > > I can not look in my own archives from the time, my only PDP-10 > documentation I have left from the early 70s, is the white monitor 'phone > book.' I do have later (circa '78) PDP-10/20 docs but that would have be > after the book described was published. > > Clem > > > ᐧ >
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