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Re: In what version of BASIC was OPT 8-15 introduced?
Thank you. That old manual particularly interests me because it includes a description of the Floating point emulator, including support for the IEEE 80-bit extended precision format - although padde…1 -
Re: About integers and negative values
I will add that to some extent this depends on the floating-point format used, but 'sign & magnitude' is by far the most common format, and in that case truncation is what you get if you discard …1 -
Re: Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
Of course: my BASICs support only axis-aligned ellipses (because the underlying OS graphics drivers also have that limitation: gdi32 in BB4W and SDL2_gfx in BBCSDL). I'm certainly not going to make B…1 -
Re: Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
In the tools I'm using only the first six characters of a symbol are significant, that's why it's supposed to be ELLIPS (not ELLIPSE) throughout, like BRAKET (rather than BRACKET) etc. But that one s…1 -
Re: Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
Oh, that's a pain (from a testing perspective). I seem to be running the latest version (4.19, 1st May 2023), do you believe the developers are aware of this bug? Hmm, I didn't think any of the earli…1
