https://github.com/tcort/tcbasic

tcbasic is a small BASIC Interpreter written in C.
https://github.com/tcort/tcbasic

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tcbasic is a small BASIC Interpreter written in C.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tcort/tcbasic
• Owner: tcort
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-02-18T03:49:55.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-02T10:13:46.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T18:15:13.802Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: basic, interpreter, tinybasic
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 285 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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# tcbasic

tcbasic is a small [BASIC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) Interpreter

written in [C](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29).

## Current Status

The "basics" are done and working. The interpreter implements the

[Tiny BASIC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC) dialect of BASIC

with added support for floating point numbers and many of the built-in mathematical

functions in [Dartmouth BASIC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC).

Development will continue with the goal of implementing successively more

complete dialects of BASIC.

## Requirements

* C compiler and standard build tools (make, sh, ...).

* [cmake](https://cmake.org/)

## Building

Standard cmake build (`make test` runs the test suite):

    $ cd bin

    $ cmake ..

    $ make

    $ make test

    # make install

## Using

Start the interpreter in interactive mode:

    $ tcbasic

Execute a program from a file in batch mode:

    $ tcbasic sample.bas

## Example Program

    10 REM Square Root Calculator using Newton's Method

    

    100 LET X = 1337

    400 GOSUB 1000

    500 PRINT "The square root of ",X," is approximately ",Y

    600 END

    

    1000 REM Calculate the square root of a given Number

    1001 REM Expects input to be in X. Output will be in Y.

    1002 REM Uses Z as a temporary variable.

    1050 LET Y = 0.5 * X

    1100 LET Z = Y

    1200 LET Y = Y-(((Y^2)-X)/(2*Y))

    1300 IF Z <> Y THEN GOTO 1100

    1400 RETURN

## Language Reference

See `LANG.md`

## License

See `COPYING` for the full license. Here's a summary:

    tcbasic - a small BASIC Interpreter written in C.

    Copyright (C) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020  Thomas Cort 

    

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

    (at your option) any later version.

    

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    GNU General Public License for more details.

    

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

    along with this program.  If not, see .