Hi,

For some odd nostalgic reason I have started to play around with
Microsoft basic 2.0 on my old (512k) Mac. I'm particularly interested
in any capabilities it has to drive the serial ports for good old
serial communications, however I dont have any reference materials
that describe how to go about it.

I purchased a rather good guide to MS Basic from amazon, but although
its a good reference on how to write code and covers many aspects of
the platform, it doesnt cover serial comms.

I see there are several other old MS Basic for Mac books I could buy,
but I've got no idea if any of them will cover the information I want
either.

So, I was wondering if anyone could either point me to an online
resource, or name a book (if anyone can remember that far back :) )
that contains information on how to do serial comms in MS Basic 2.0
for Mac.

Cheers,

I have a Keithley application note for the Franck-Hertz experiment.
It contains some BASIC code for control and data collection. The dialect
of BASIC doesn't seem to be identified. I don't recognize some of the
commands and can't guess what they mean. On the other hand, I don't use
BASIC very often. They are:
FIND
READ
WINDOW

If you know what they are please let me in on it.

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QB64 Demo #5 can be downloaded from two different locations. Both
locations contain the same file, demo5.zip.

http://www.mediafire.com/?amhdnyvmazk
Tip: Wait for the moving blue bar on the middle-left of the web-page
to turn into the download button.

http://www.geocities.com/dqbsvga/demo5.zip
Tip: Limited bandwidth, so if unavailable try first link or try again
later.

Simply extract demo5.zip and run compile.bat, no "installation" as
such is required.

The following text files are included in demo5.zip but are posted here
as an easy reference.

Enjoy,
Galleon

This is a dynamic collection of technical articles for Liberty BASIC
programmers. It was founded by the publishing team from The Liberty
BASIC Newsletter as a new format and continuation of that publication.

http://lbpe.wikispaces.com/Articles+by+Date

Here are the new articles:

January 18, 2008

The ABCs of APIs Lesson 9 - DLLs To Be Opened - Alyce Watson

January 14, 2008

AnimateWindow - Janet Terra

January 14, 2008

Creating an Image Map - Marcus Lee

January 13, 2008

The ABCs of APIs Lesson 8 - Windows API in Liberty BASIC - Alyce
Watson

January 1, 2008

Smoother with GetAsyncKeyState - Janet Terra

I wonder if someone can give me some suggestion.

I want to show a label 1 second, and erase it and show it again.

label.visible = true
pauseme(1000)
label.visible = false
pauseme(1000)
label.visible = true,.....

To show them properly, I used Me.Refresh in VB6. I want to do the same thing
in Excel VBA. But if I insert Me.Refresh in my VBA code, I simply get an
error message saying that there is no such function Me.Refresh. How can I
correct this? How can I show labels, pictures, or texts, back and forth on
an Excel VBA userform?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Takashi Yamauchi

-> >.... It's also not clear why the OP
-> >would insist on Arc-Cosine and Arc-Sine being intrinsic functions,
-> >since they're easily calculated from Arc-Tan (ATN in most BASICs).
-> >Similarly, DEG and RAD are equivalent to multiplication by 180/PI and
-> >PI/180 respectively.

By the same logic, why not get rid of COS and TAN? Both of them are
easily defined in terms of SIN. COS(X) = SIN(pi/2 - X). TAN(X) =
SIN(X) / COS(X).

Having COS and TAN adds convenience. The same would be true if ASN and
ACS (arcsine and arccos) were included in the language.

dow

I'm pleased to announce the release of BBC BASIC for Windows version
5.80a. This update includes the following new features:

* Improved support for 'console mode' programs.
* Improved compatibility with QBASIC.
* Support for right-to-left (etc.) printing languages.
* Support for high-numbered I/O devices (e.g. COM99:).
* A few minor anomalies fixed.

If you already have the full version of BBC BASIC for Windows you can
update your copy, free of charge, by downloading and installing
UPGRADE.EXE from here:

http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/download.html

If you don't yet have BBC BASIC for Windows but you would like to try
it, you can download a free non-time-limited evaluation copy (capable
of running many useful programs) from the same address.

BBC BASIC is the language specified and adopted by the British
Broadcasting Corporation for its groundbreaking Computer Literacy
Project of the early 1980s. It is ideally suited for the complete
beginner yet is powerful enough to write complete Windows
applications. Some of the features which make it unique are:

On Jan 10, 4:22 pm, Jon Ripley wrote:

BBC BASIC for Windows is "compiled" only in the sense that it can
create compact standalone executables. It's also not clear why the OP
would insist on Arc-Cosine and Arc-Sine being intrinsic functions,
since they're easily calculated from Arc-Tan (ATN in most BASICs).
Similarly, DEG and RAD are equivalent to multiplication by 180/PI and
PI/180 respectively.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

-> What i would really like; is for my MacBook to have a built in
-> programming language that's as easy to use as RPL ( The programming
-> language used by my HP48 programmable calculator ) It is the easiest
-> and most intuitive programming language i've ever seen...

A language called Forth, which was trendy about 25 years ago, used
Reverse Polish Notation. I learned it reasonably well. However, it
never really caught on, mainly because most people found the RPN way of
doing things very *counter*-intuitive.

I don't know if there are any implementations of Forth still on the
market.

dow