Help translate Japanese: Family BASIC manual excerpts

[Jeremy Douglass]

Currently, several people are looking into implementations of BASIC
for Playpower, and thus are interested in previous implementations.
We've acquired a copy of the Family BASIC complete with manual from
Ebay, and are looking for volunteers who speak Japanese to help
translate it.

If you are a volunteer who speaks Japanese, or if you know someone who
would be interested in helping the translation effort, please let me
know.

I've found several other sites online who are interested in a
translation, and I'm reaching out to them as well:

http://taylor.veltrop.com/software.php#familybasic
http://balduin.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/%E3%82%A1%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-family-basic/
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/peripherals/fc_keyboard.html

best,
Jeremy

[frantik]

http://taylor.veltrop.com/software.php#familybasic already has the
translations right under "English Programming Help"... am I missing
something?

On Apr 23, 5:40 pm, Jeremy Douglass <jeremydougl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, several people are looking into implementations of BASIC
> for Playpower, and thus are interested in previous implementations.
> We've acquired a copy of the Family BASIC complete with manual from
> Ebay, and are looking for volunteers who speak Japanese to help
> translate it.
>
> If you are a volunteer who speaks Japanese, or if you know someone who
> would be interested in helping the translation effort, please let me
> know.
>
> I've found several other sites online who are interested in a
> translation, and I'm reaching out to them as well:
>

> http://taylor.veltrop.com/software.php#familybasichttp://balduin.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/%E3%82%A1%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E...http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/peripherals/fc_keyboard...
>
> best,
> Jeremy

[Jeremy Douglass]

The difference is that Taylor's docs (e.g. fb_grammar.txt) are great
at covering the core of the grammar, but the manual contains ~120
pages of examples, code snippets, labeled diagrams and schematics,
asset maps, etc., none of which I see in Taylor's text files. My
guess looking through it is that some of it would be valuable
reference material if it were translated. Of course, some people here
may want to translate it into languages *other* than English... :)

-- Jeremy

[frantik]

oh wow.. yeah it would be great to see all of that stuff too

On Apr 23, 8:08 pm, Jeremy Douglass <jeremydougl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The difference is that Taylor's docs (e.g. fb_grammar.txt) are great
> at covering the core of the grammar, but the manual contains ~120
> pages of examples, code snippets, labeled diagrams and schematics,
> asset maps, etc., none of which I see in Taylor's text files.  My
> guess looking through it is that some of it would be valuable
> reference material if it were translated. Of course, some people here
> may want to translate it into languages *other* than English... :)
>
> -- Jeremy
>

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM, frantik <frizzan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://taylor.veltrop.com/software.php#familybasicalready has the

> > translations right under "English Programming Help"... am I missing
> > something?
>
> > On Apr 23, 5:40 pm, Jeremy Douglass <jeremydougl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Currently, several people are looking into implementations of BASIC
> >> for Playpower, and thus are interested in previous implementations.
> >> We've acquired a copy of the Family BASIC complete with manual from
> >> Ebay, and are looking for volunteers who speak Japanese to help
> >> translate it.
>
> >> If you are a volunteer who speaks Japanese, or if you know someone who
> >> would be interested in helping the translation effort, please let me
> >> know.
>
> >> I've found several other sites online who are interested in a
> >> translation, and I'm reaching out to them as well:
>

> >>http://taylor.veltrop.com/software.php#familybasichttp://balduin.word......
>
> >> best,
> >> Jeremy

[frantik]

looks like some folks over at nesdev got a hold of a manual as well

http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=46696#46696