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  • CBASIC-68K Manual

    From Thomas Niccum@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 31 19:27:32 2022
    Has anyone seen (or better yet have access to) a CBASIC for CP/M 68K manual?

    It was mentioned in the read.me file in the distribution disks for CPM68k that I have where it was referred to as:
    "CBASIC Compiler(CB68) Programmer's Guide for the CP/M-68K Family of Operating Systems"

    I've spent a fair amount of time searching, but so far, nada.

    I've been fooling around with the compiler and like it - it does seem to follow the earlier CBASIC pretty closely with two exceptions that I've noted so far...
    1-Error codes are shown in the CBASIC (non 68K version) as two letter codes, but the errors from CB68 are numeric...
    2-I can't get any of the mentioned compiler toggles to work... Getting the $L toggle working so that line numbers are reported with run-time errors would be helpful!

    Any documentation on the compiler would be most welcome!
    -Tom

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  • From Zbig@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 1 03:09:46 2022
    Has anyone seen (or better yet have access to) a CBASIC for CP/M 68K manual?

    http://old-dos.ru/books/3/a/e/CBASIC_Language_Reference_Manual_Oct82.pdf

    Any documentation on the compiler would be most welcome!

    http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/digitalResearch/cb80/CBASIC_Compiler_CB86_Programmers_Guide_May83.pdf

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  • From Randy McLaughlin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 1 11:44:48 2022
    CBASIC and its derivative's varied significantly from CB80 etal.

    I would check and see which manual you found the directives in.

    In general CBASIC could would compile with little to no changes under CB80 (CB86), but the command-lines were vastly different. CB80 code and command-lines would generally be compatible with CB86.

    CB86 for DOS basically was CB86 for CP/M-86 with a patch to handle DOS calls.

    I never used CB68.

    I loved the fact DRI's CBASIC languages could add 1+2 and come up with 2, unlike Micro-Sloths basics.


    Randy

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