OCRed version of the user guide
3 messages · 2010-11-02 → 2010-11-17 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: cheveron, pxx1_2000_32724
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1. OCRed version of the user guide
cheveron · Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:28
Hi,
As part of the support plan for SE Basic I've uploaded an OCRed version of the TS2068 user guide to the site. This means it's smaller than the PDF currently available and it's also searchable. Just remember that the note table is wrong due to rounding errors (and use the one on the SE Basic website instead). I'd like to thank Bruno for getting permission to legally distribute the Timex stuff, and Lou Galie for granting permission.
https://sites.google.com/site/sebasic2/2068UserManual.zip
https://sites.google.com/site/sebasic2/home/programmable-sound-generator/note-tables-1
And if you're not bored of SE Basic updates yet... it's bumped to version 2.19 which makes it a bit more like SAM Basic and fixes a minor bug you'd probably never spot.
The download is still in the same place and it does work as a replacement ROM for TS2068s.
http://bit.ly/blBlIg
2. Re: OCRed version of the user guide
pxx1_2000_32724 · Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:15
Looks like this SE Basic is really stirring up a BUZZ...(cough cough!)...Could you repeat again the big advantages of this Basic over the original Timex/Sinclair Tokenized Basic?? Maybe I am missing something.
--- In [email], "cheveron@..." <cheveron@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As part of the support plan for SE Basic I've uploaded an OCRed version of the TS2068 user guide to the site. This means it's smaller than the PDF currently available and it's also searchable. Just remember that the note table is wrong due to rounding errors (and use the one on the SE Basic website instead). I'd like to thank Bruno for getting permission to legally distribute the Timex stuff, and Lou Galie for granting permission.
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/sebasic2/2068UserManual.zip
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/sebasic2/home/programmable-sound-generator/note-tables-1
>
> And if you're not bored of SE Basic updates yet... it's bumped to version 2.19 which makes it a bit more like SAM Basic and fixes a minor bug you'd probably never spot.
>
> The download is still in the same place and it does work as a replacement ROM for TS2068s.
>
> http://bit.ly/blBlIg
>
3. Re: OCRed version of the user guide
cheveron · Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:16
Hi,
> Looks like this SE Basic is really stirring up a BUZZ...(cough cough!)...
Ok, not sure how I'm supposed to read that. Will therefore assume no sarcasm was intended. I don't think 26 downloads from the US is quite on a par with the 93 from the UK or the 34 from Spain, but it tells me that some people might be using it with original Timex hardware.
>Could you repeat again the big advantages of this Basic over the original Timex/Sinclair Tokenized Basic?? Maybe I am missing something.
The advantages over the original Sinclair version are:
* Overall fastest version of Sinclair BASIC - fully optimized for speed
* Fastest and most user friendly editor - with additional editing commands
* AY support including pseudo-interrupt driven sound
* ULAplus support including a default palette and new commands
* 8-bit character set support including printing characters 24-31
* Direct machine code calls
* BASIC access to LDIR
* Hex and Octal number entry
* Decimal to Hex string conversion
* Intelligent error trapping - OK and STOP are not errors
* More room for BASIC programs and line numbers up to 16383
* Improved SCREEN$ handling for UDGs and 8-bit character sets
* Improved floating-point library - faster and more accurate
* Fixes all known bugs in the original ROM - the only version to do so
* Remains compatible with the majority of Spectrum software and hardware
* Ability to use reserved words as variable names during tokenization
The additional advantages for Timex users are:
* Way more compatible with Spectrum software than the native Timex ROM
* You get to keep the DELETE, SOUND, and ON ERR commands
* The ON ERR command is better than the one in T/S2000 BASIC
* The SOUND command supports both sets of AY ports so no need to rewrite your programs for Sinclair or Timex hardware
* Since you're not using the EX-BANK now you could hook up an additional 64K of RAM to it instead (enabling you to run some modified cartridge software in RAM).
... and probably some others I haven't thought of.