Hello j,
Thanks for this...BASIC is fun for me and there are lots of old basic programs that may take on new HTML5 life thanks to projects like this.
I hope you continue to develop this!
I could not get the starfield code to run. I got a dark screen but no stars.
I was able to do some Print statements and have some nostalgia!
A_R
Hey, thanks a lot for trying it out. About the starfield, did you copy the Globals section to the right side textarea and the mainloop section to the left side? I know It's a bit complicated, thinking about to add examples and save/load. The starfield should work. Yeah, Print, only unofficially supported, as it uses document.write() ontop of the canvas. You can also use Text(x,y,t$)
That said, I just spotted a bad bug and may upload a new version asap. In any case the project can be downloaded and may be debugged, expanded and modded by anybody. I think, most important is a stable set of simple functions, reducing javascript-typical excessive debugging time (from my POV anyway) to a minimum and allowing to actually concentrate on the game/project itself.
You are correct I did not load the code correctly! It works good and is super fast.
My first computer language was BASIC so this is a lot of fun to mess with.
Thanks again and if you decide to declare it ready/released please add me to your list to notify. I will add you to my Follow list.
I am interested in using it to generate some simple programs in JS to use in Tuesday JS visual novel builder....
thanks
A_R
Thanks, I appreciate it a lot if people actually use it. But I doubt it will ever be finished - there's always something that can be done better. Still, given the most game-breaking bugs are fixed, it can already be used. For instance I ported my "jack Airbourne" platformer with an older version (using the blitzbasic version of the converter back then). I just uploaded a new version that hopefully fixes previous export problems.
