Japan Tsunami Appeal
10 messages · 2011-03-30 → 2011-05-17 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: cheveron, Christopher Blackmon
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1. Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:31
As some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing Amstrad's copyright. I'm pleased to say the project is now viable, although it is not yet written.
I've also said I would only release it in exchange for a sack of cash. So let me quantify that: I want 100 people to donate a minimum of $15 each to the Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.
You can sign up here:
http://www.pledgebank.com/opense
If you are based in the US you can make your donation via:
http://www.redcross.org/
I know it's called pledgebank but I want you to donate now. This is an honour system. If you say you've donated $15 or more I'll assume you have.
Please sign up by July 1st.
Thank you.
-Andrew
P.S. I have donated $15 to get the ball rolling
2. Re: [ts2068] Japan Tsunami Appeal
Christopher Blackmon · Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:01
I donated $50 on through the ARC website.
Christopher.
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Subject: [ts2068] Japan Tsunami Appeal
As some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of
SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing Amstrad's
copyright. I'm pleased to say the project is now viable, although it is not yet
written.
I've also said I would only release it in exchange for a sack of cash. So let me
quantify that: I want 100 people to donate a minimum of $15 each to the Red
Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.
You can sign up here:
http://www.pledgebank.com/opense
If you are based in the US you can make your donation via:
http://www.redcross.org/
I know it's called pledgebank but I want you to donate now. This is an honour
system. If you say you've donated $15 or more I'll assume you have.
Please sign up by July 1st.
Thank you.
-Andrew
P.S. I have donated $15 to get the ball rolling
3. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:14
If you have already donated, please sign up on pledgebank.com/opense, then return and click the 'I did it button'.
--- In [email], Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm@...> wrote:
>
> I donated $50 on through the ARC website.
>
> Christopher.
4. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:22
The total has now reached 17 (13 of which have paid up already). It would be lovely to get to 20 this week. So to encourage you here's a progress report:
* More than 60% of the ROM is now fully functional and unencumbered by Amstrad code.
* The ROM is functionally compatible with SE Basic 2.21 (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0025327)
* As far as I can tell, everything that ran on the 2.21 ROM still works.
* New RENUM routine. It only accepts the first two parameters, but it isn't broken either.
* New tokenizer. You can now enter INK and it will automatically be translated to PEN.
* 60 abbreviated commands:
Code:
A.TTR ED.IT LO.AD RA.NDOMIZE
BE.EP ER.ASE ME.RGE RE.AD
B.IN E.XP M.OVE REN.UM
BO.RDER FL.ASH NE.XT RES.TORE
BR.IGHT F.ORMAT N.OT RET.URN
CH.R$ GOS.UB ON.ERR R.ND
CI.RCLE G.OTO OP.EN# SA.VE
CLE.AR I.NK OV.ER S.CREEN$
CL.OSE# INKE.Y$ PA.PER SO.UND
C.ODE INP.UT PAL.ETTE ST.R$
CON.TINUE INV.ERSE PAU.SE T.AB
DA.TA L.EN PE.EK TH.EN
D.EFFN LI.NE PL.OT U.SR
DEL.ETE LL.IST P.OINT V.AL$
DR.AW LP.RINT PR.INT VE.RIFY
* Macros for the following tokens:
Code:
LOAD, CODE, RUN, SIN, COS, TAN, ASN, ACS
* INSERT ([G]) mode now has it's own cursor (an I beam)
Thanks again to everyone who has already contributed.
5. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:26
I'm slightly surprised but I've actually finished coding the OpenSE BASIC ROM. It's currently undergoing testing. This makes it legal to clone Timexen and Spectrums. So please ensure it gets released: pledgebank.com/opense
Thanks!
6. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:51
Since I have 25 pledges I've released the assembly file to generate the first 4K of the ROM.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sebasic/
7. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:14
Well we're now almost a third of the way there with more than two months to go. Keep those pledges coming folks.
http://www.pledgebank.com/opense
8. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:45
We're now at 35 pledges and I'm going to stop nagging now. Please pass the word around and encourage others to donate. I'll be back in July to let you know if we made the total.
9. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:15
More than halfway there with the appeal in the first month: http://bit.ly/e5NHbT
10. Re: Japan Tsunami Appeal
cheveron · Tue, 17 May 2011 06:45
Just 28 pledges needed now. The project is now built using GNU binutils. All the files except the main source file are now available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sebasic/files/