> On Jan 25, 2018, at 6:44 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Cool. Thanks. Downloaded and unpacket.
> Anyone interested and on HECnet can now find them on MIM::DU:[101GAMES]
>
> Looked a little at one or two files. BASIC+2 do not like them. The code uses
> special shorts, functions and specifics that don't match.
> I wonder if BASIC+ accepts them either, or if this might be from some other
> BASIC dialect that DEC had at some point.
>
> If I have plenty of time at some point, I might sit down and write a
> converter for them to BASIC+2 style.
There is a converter to do that for RSTS, I believe it was included as a
standard tool. Can't remember the name. The line ending conventions can be
done by running it through TECO (read with /B+ and save with /B2). But other
details, like the use of colon rather than backslash as statement separator
you'll have to do by hand.
BASIC-PLUS and BASIC-PLUS-2 are different languages. It's not hard to write a
program acceptable to both, but source text that predates the release of
BASIC-PLUS-2 are likely to need work. And sufficiently old ones (like ones
written for RSTS V4A) definitely will, because in those version, BASIC-PLUS did
not yet support the -2 compatible syntax.
paul
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