1. Offtopic. BBC to QB
- Posted by Natasha Rudra <natasha.rudra at CYBERGAL.COM>
Jul 27, 1999
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Last edited Jul 28, 1999
Hello,
Complete novice here, trying to learn Qbasic as well as Eu.
My biology textbook includes a couple of programs written in BBC
Basic. I'd like to run these, but don't know how to "translate" the
BBC commands to QB. Could anyone help?
Any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Natasha Rudra
Penang
Malaysia
2. Re: Offtopic. BBC to QB
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:50:08 +0800, Natasha Rudra
<natasha.rudra at CYBERGAL.COM> wrote:
>Hello,
>Complete novice here, trying to learn Qbasic as well as Eu.
>
>My biology textbook includes a couple of programs written in BBC
>Basic. I'd like to run these, but don't know how to "translate" the
>BBC commands to QB. Could anyone help?
>
>Any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks.
>Natasha Rudra
>Penang
>Malaysia
British Broadcasting Corp Basic was written for CP/M on the Z80 (1983)
BBCBASIC QBASIC EUPHORIA
DEFPROCtest SUB test procedure test()
do something here do something here do something here
ENDPROC END SUB end procedure
NEXT NEXT i = i + 1
GOTO GOTO not allowed in Eu
CALL CALL calling machine code is
possible see documents
LOCAL none none
line-numbers line-numbers/labels none
GOSUB(label) GOSUB(line-no./labels) test() -- goto a test sub
RETURN RETURN automatic
This is only some of the differences.
It would be too dificult to translate line for line from 1 language to
another.
What you must do is sit down an follow every step in the BBCBASIC
and get an understanding of how the program performs each step.
Once you understand how the program works it will become apparent how to
write the program in your new language. I would recomend using Euphoria
because its easy to learn and has lots of examples also anyone
on this list would glad to help you.
Good luck with your biology studies
Bernie
3. Re: Offtopic. BBC to QB
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:50:08 +0800, Natasha Rudra
> <natasha.rudra at CYBERGAL.COM> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >Complete novice here, trying to learn Qbasic as well as Eu.
> >
> >My biology textbook includes a couple of programs written in BBC
> >Basic. I'd like to run these, but don't know how to "translate" the
> >BBC commands to QB. Could anyone help?
> >
Hi Natasha,
Bernie gave lots of good advice. I can only add that, since you most likely
have no way to actually _run_ the BBC programs, you will need to determine from
reading the instructions, comments, and code, exactly what the program is
supposed to do, and then outline the steps needed to make your new (QB or Eu)
program do the same task. Don't be surprised, if while doing this, you think
of different or better ways to accomplish the task. Once you have the steps
outlined, you can ask here for ways to convert the steps into actual code.
Regards,
Irv Mullins
4. Re: Offtopic. BBC to QB
- Posted by Natasha Rudra <natasha.rudra at CYBERGAL.COM>
Jul 28, 1999
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Last edited Jul 29, 1999
Thank you to Bernie Ryan and Irv Mullins, for your helpful
advice. I was (naively) hoping that I could somehow just find and
replace the differing commands, but evidently that's not possible.
David Cuny usefully suggested a BBC clone, but I think doing as
Bernie and Irving suggested would help expand my very limited
programming knowledge. A simple breeding experiment is the
shorter of the 2 programs, so I'll try that first. And I'm glad I'm on
this list.
Thanks once again,
Natasha Rudra
