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by VinCBR900
Thu Mar 19, 2026 1:19 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

Re: A pair of Tiny BASICs

You can open this project in 8 Bit Workshop and try it Out.

http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.12.1/?redir.html?platform=verilog&githubURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FVinCBR900%2Fmango_one&file=mango1.v

You should see a Green CRT on the right. Type LIST to view the embedded BASIC program and RUN to execute ...
by VinCBR900
Fri Mar 13, 2026 8:18 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

Re: A pair of Tiny BASICs

Probably not, as I only just heard of it and I don't know if all opcodes are implemented, only those needed to compile the Tiny BASICs
by VinCBR900
Thu Mar 12, 2026 9:03 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

Re: A pair of Tiny BASICs

In my case I tried Gemini but it gave incorrect code eg non existent opcodes.

Claude was much better, but the real breakthrough came with the c based simulator and debugger is it could iterate without me in a tight loop, until my free account time was consumed, then wait 4hrs and continue.
by VinCBR900
Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:27 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

Re: A pair of Tiny BASICs

teamtempest wrote:
I notice that at one point you use an instruction that is technically not part of the original 65C02 instruction set. It is one of those Rockwell extensions that is included in the W65C02S instruction set, though.
Oops, my mistake - which one?
by VinCBR900
Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

Re: A pair of Tiny BASICs

Evening,
The assembly has a directive for available ram, currently set to 4kbyte. So anywhere outside that works with kowalski simulator and my toy simulators.

Oops typo on Han’s, I’ll fix tomorrow.

Re license, chatgpt recommends MIT but even then there’s nothing to force people to comply. I’ll ...
by VinCBR900
Tue Mar 10, 2026 8:51 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?
Replies: 143
Views: 254730

Re: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?

Apologies if that sounded patronizing.

I downloaded the 1.4 Kowalski simulator and the first time I ran it it didnt work, but then I animated it and then it has been working properly ever since, so dunno?

Anyhow using Claude I created my own version of a 65c02 simulator so you could try that ...
by VinCBR900
Tue Mar 10, 2026 8:49 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: A pair of Tiny BASICs
Replies: 15
Views: 2146

A pair of Tiny BASICs

Hello everyone, below are a couple of Tiny and Small integer BASICs ive been working on.

https://github.com/VinCBR900/65c02-Tiny-BASIC

Enjoy!
by VinCBR900
Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:45 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?
Replies: 143
Views: 254730

Re: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?

Thats odd, which one do you mean, 4k or 2k version? Both seem to work fine for me

Did you enable terminal emulation in the settings?
by VinCBR900
Wed Mar 04, 2026 6:57 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?
Replies: 143
Views: 254730

Re: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?

And after a bit more wrestling with Claude, here is a < 2kbyte stripped down version that has further potential for hand optimization e.g. INSLINE/DELINE, DIV/MUL, Statement Dispatcher. Modern AI is amazing.

Currently about a dozen bytes free and is not tokenized, so about 5x slower than the ...
by VinCBR900
Tue Mar 03, 2026 8:37 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?
Replies: 143
Views: 254730

Re: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?

Hullo,
well its been a while since I originally posted asking for <2Kbyte tiny basic. So I had a go myself using Claude.

Attached is a file which will load into the (Superb) Kowalski emulator - it has a little BASIC program already in the program space you can LIST and RUN without having to type ...
by VinCBR900
Wed Jun 12, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Cheap Video Questions
Replies: 14
Views: 3291

Re: Cheap Video Questions

I making progress and created (multiple) schematics - 1st time using KiCAD, was impressed with the features, especially the Freerouting autorouter plugin.

This design is basically the answer to a question no-one asked - Since the 6502 was infamously low cost, Could the Sinclair Zx80 have used a ...
by VinCBR900
Sun May 19, 2024 5:05 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Cheap Video Questions
Replies: 14
Views: 3291

Re: Cheap Video Questions

Thanks Neil.

Ok thinking PAL is better as leaves more time for processing during V blank.

Would 4 line v sync pulse work and what start line is recommended? I was thinking line 292?
by VinCBR900
Sat May 18, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: 6502A/B/C Release dates
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

Re: 6502A/B/C Release dates

Perfect, thanks gents! Wikipedia doesn’t really discuss.
by VinCBR900
Sat May 18, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: 6502A/B/C Release dates
Replies: 4
Views: 2859

6502A/B/C Release dates

Hi,
just pondering on the evolution of NMOS 6502 increased clock speed variant before 65C02.

Anyone got any magazine links to appropriate articles?

Thx
by VinCBR900
Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Cheap Video Questions
Replies: 14
Views: 3291

Re: Cheap Video Questions

Thanks @barnacle. I'm still figuring this out, but I am getting confused about the 0.5us 'Equalization' pulses.
ZX80 didn't seem to bother, are they necessary?