https://github.com/trevorjay/atinybasic

A Tiny Basic: An Actually Tiny BASIC for Arduino
https://github.com/trevorjay/atinybasic

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A Tiny Basic: An Actually Tiny BASIC for Arduino

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/trevorjay/atinybasic
• Owner: trevorjay
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2020-07-27T08:27:11.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-13T13:27:16.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-02T00:33:05.824Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
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• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# atinybasic

`atinybasic` is a straight-forward port of Dennis Allison's famous ["Tiny BASIC"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC) from ["The People's Computer Company"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Computer_Company) [newsletter circa September 1975](https://archive.org/details/1975-09-peoples-computer-company). In the spirit of the original, `atinybasic` does not attempt to be a complete BASIC environment per se. Instead it's meant to be a starting point for building a BASIC suited for a particular project or task. I have added `RND`, `ABS` and an array to the basic feature set, but this is more to show how you might add more features than anything else.

# Video

[![Alt text](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GVN8z__guZE/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVN8z__guZE)

# Installation

Copy the `basic_blink` folder to where you keep your Arduino sketch folders.

# Setup

By default, the included `basic_blink` sketch will start a headless BASIC interpreter running a (flash stored) program that blinks the LED attached to pin 13 on Arduino Uno boards. To enable a serial console, change the `#define CONSOLE  0` line of `config.ino` to `#define CONSOLE 1`. Also change `#define RAM  0` to `#define RAM  1` and `#define FLASH 1` to `#define FLASH  0` (this changes the program source from being the onboard flash to the onboard RAM). 

# Size

Headless, the interpreter only takes up 348 bytes of RAM, leaving the rest for BASIC programs themselves.