Basic Anywhere Machine (check it out)

What it is, the "short"(?) version:

Imagine Wikipedia (as in the software behind it), all existing in one self-editing and self-saving HTML file.  Imagine it hosting a QB64 interpreter, IDE, all of the programming tools and programs, and everything to support all processes and artefacts for project management, source code management, and everything end-to-end in a software development process.

Still early going, but that's where it is heading.

And all you need is a web browser.  Offline, online, fine.  What you do with it will still work in 15 or 20 years.  You won't need to find software or an operating system to run it.  Just find a web browser.  Everything else you need (every single thing other than a web browser) is in the one HTML file.

It is like a fully self-contained virtual computer that will have everything you need to manage QB64PE code for huge projects.  Kind of like a QB64PE software development "bottle garden" (not sealed! you can still put stuff in it and get stuff out of it!)

Some technical clarifications:

Okay, it is not Wikipedia software.  It is a "TiddlyWiki" instance.  Because TiddlyWiki has the goods (goodies) to create just about anything.  Don't let the cutesy name fool you.  The thing is a powerhouse.

The embedded BASIC interpreter started off with vanilla wwwBASIC, but BAM's version is significantly enhanced.  (An on-going process.)  At the moment very focused on GW-BASIC "reasonable" compatibility before moving on to QB64PE "reasonable" compatibility.  (I say "reasonable" because I cannot stand javascript, so updating the interpreter to handle the more intricate/complicated statements/functions/features, I just don't want to think of that just yet.)

Aside:

• multi-member team software development project?  That is a BASIC Anywhere Machine "TiddlyWiki Farm" running on a node.js server; awesome, but not required if you have good workflow processes.
  

• Project web site, Programming Reference, Blog, YouTube Playlist
  
• Tracking Enhancements to wwwBASIC, GW-BASIC Compatibility Tracking
  
• QB64/QB64PE Compatibility Tracking (very early going, a bit under the radar, loads of testing to do)
  

[i]Note:  Due to lack of interest in BASIC Anywhere Machine by the QB64 community, and unless interest in BASIC Anywhere Machine picks up, I'm (1) suspending posting updates about BASIC Anywhere Machine in the QB64(pe) forum and (2) suspending efforts to improve BASIC Anywhere Machine's compatibility with QB64/QB64(pe).  If anybody wants to discuss BAM, I'm there for you, but I'm otherwise not bringing up my project.[/i]

Newly added to BASIC Anywhere Machine: Task Management

Newly added to "On the radar":

• Ideas Management (A placeholder to manage ideas which may, or may not, turn into tasks, or requirements, or whatever)
  

• Task Management
  
• Source code promotion levels (Development and Production)
  
• Multiple Program Export Options
  

• Ideas Management
  
• Task Management Sub-Tasks
  
• "Powerwash", "BAM System Update", "TW System Update"
  
• Requirements Management
  
• Change Request Management
  
• Issue/Bug Management
  
• Project Management
  
• "Test" source code promotion level and related program export options
  

Some folks mostly love to use programs, others love to develop them.

Out of curiosity, do you think if we had a lot of usable libraries on the boards, would you use them to build your programs, or prefer to make your own routines?

Pete

A question about Select Case. The query should be: Case Is > 5500 but less than 7000

I just can't do it. I even got a compiler error with it.

Attached Files

  SelectCase-Fehler.txt (Size: 1.83 KB / Downloads: 61)

Hi All,

The latest version of QBJS (0.6.0) is now available.  Here are some of the highlights for this release:

File I/O Support
Support has been added for standard QBasic file input/output.  QBJS now has a virtual file system that supports most file system operations.  As part of this update there is now a File tab in the console to manage the virtual file system.  Files can be dragged into the currently selected folder and downloaded by clicking the file name.

What is supported so far:
- INPUT, OUTPUT, APPEND and BINARY file modes

What is NOT supported yet:
- RANDOM file mode


Project Support
Now more complex projects can be managed and shared in QBJS.  There is a new toolbar which allows you to open and save either individual .bas source files or a .zip file containing an entire project.  Additionally, you can share publicly published projects with the src parameter.  Here are a couple of examples:
- Simple Project Example
- Sleighless


Expanded Set of QB/QB64 Keywords
25 new keywords have been included with this release:
_CWD$, _DirExists, _FileExists, _OS$, _StartDir, ChDir, Close, EOF, Files, FreeFile, Get, Input (file statement), Kill, Line Input (file statement), LOF, MkDir, Open, Print (file statement), Put, Name, RmDir, Seek, Write, Write (file statement), XOR (bitwise)


See the full release announcement for a complete list of fixes and enhancements.

Download the latest version of QBJS at: https://github.com/boxgaming/qbjs/releases/latest

Try it out online here: https://qbjs.org

some basic complex math routines to get started

Block stacking game

Yay!  Today, we get one of those keywords that I personally find utterly useless, but it is what it is.

Let's start by talking about how to decipher that long string of random characters, and try and understand what CVSMBF might actually stand for:

CV -- Convert
S -- SINGLE
M -- Microsoft
B -- Binary
F -- Format

So, what does it do?  

It converts a properly formatted string (one stored in Microsoft Binary Format -- which is outdated and obsoleted and thus why I find this to be basically a worthless command, unless one is working with ancient data from the late 70s or early 80s) into a SINGLE precision number.

Let me share an example of this, and its twin function MKSMBF, and then I'll explain a little more about how and where one might use these type commands:

A place for dbox and the creators of other BASIC-variants to come and showcase their projects, offer some demos, and share their vision for what they're doing and where they're going with it.  

If, over time, this little home gets too crowded and it becomes confusing to navigate between QBJS and BAM conversations and such, I'll divide this further into smaller little sub-sections, but until we see how active the developers are going to be, and how much our user base posts here, I think one forum for everything should work as a starting point.  We can always expand and grow from here, if interest develops to that point!