WANTED: someone to transfer IBM 5110 BASIC programs to modern PC
Fred Cisin
cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed Dec 3 14:46:28 CST 2008
> >> Are those BASIC files stored as plain text, or are they tokenized?
> > They are tokenized.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Alexandre Souza wrote:
> PC basic? It is compatible with MSX Basic :D
It would not be "PC BASIC", nor even a MICROS~1 BASIC.
Even if it were, the tokenization is not standardized.
When MICROS~1 CP/M BASIC went from V 4.51 to V5.0, the tokens changed.
People had to run the old version, load, and resave in untokenized form.
We, and many others, wrote routines to change the .BAS files, but it was
still an annoyance.
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