BASIC conversion into and out of VICE in UNIX
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:36 pm
Before I waste time writing a tool that already exists. I want to know if anyone can get BASIC programs into or out of VICE under UNIX. I use Linux and to put BASIC into VICE I have to type it in which can be hard since the PC keyboard does not map well to the VIC one. I cannot get programs out of VICE except for copying character by character by hand.
Is there an easier way to do this?
My solution would be to write a program that can read and write D64, tokenized BASIC entries. Also it would put the program in a special editor so you could see all the codes like C=A or CTRL-1. Maybe also it could have a special keyboard down the bottom that would display the keys as on a real VIC20 and you could type with the mouse.
Another thought occurs to me. I often want to place BASIC programs onto place like this ASCII forum but it does not support the CBM charset so I write codes like this <shift><home>. Is there any convention for that? I mean do people prefer <shift> or [SHIFT] or what?
Is there an easier way to do this?
My solution would be to write a program that can read and write D64, tokenized BASIC entries. Also it would put the program in a special editor so you could see all the codes like C=A or CTRL-1. Maybe also it could have a special keyboard down the bottom that would display the keys as on a real VIC20 and you could type with the mouse.
Another thought occurs to me. I often want to place BASIC programs onto place like this ASCII forum but it does not support the CBM charset so I write codes like this <shift><home>. Is there any convention for that? I mean do people prefer <shift> or [SHIFT] or what?