8086 BASIC interpreter source?

[xlar54]

Looking for 8086 BASIC interpreter source.. the very old kind with
line numbers, etc. I found tinybasic for the 8080, but Im not sure
how to convert it.

[Frank Kotler]

Some time ago, we read this:

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Subject: What flavor of ancient X86 assembler is this ?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:09:44 -0000
From: "jdm" <jdm1intx@DIE_SPAMBOT_DIEhome.com>
Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86

This is the venerable source for the X86 version of Tiny Basic, as
written by Michael Sullivan, lo these many years ago. I am trying to
get it to assemble with TASM 5.0 (16 bit) and it doesn't like it very
much. A lot of the problems I've been able to get around by adding
Borland-esque declarations and keywords, but 4 lines after the START:
label you'll see a prime example of code that I am having a hard time
deciphering. I wonder if this code was written for some old shareware
assembler like A86 or something. I'd really like to get this
converted to TASM-compatible code so I could step through it with the
debugger and learn more about it. I'm learning all I can about
interpreters and compilers and this would really give me some valuable
insights I think.

Thanks,

John M.

;***************************************************************
;*
;*
;* TINY BASIC FOR INTEL 8086
;*
;*
;* VERSION: 1.1
;*
;* BY
;*
;* MICHAEL SULLIVAN
;* BASED
;* ON
;* LI-CHEN WANG'S
;*
;* 8080 TINY BASIC
;*
;*
;* 27 JUNE 1982
;*
;* @COPYLEFT
;* ALL WRONGS RESERVED
;*
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Tasm, no, but I did get it to assemble with Nasm.

http://home.myfairpoint.net/fbkotler/tbasic.zip

The .zip file contains the original post, "tbasic.asm" and
"tbasic2.asm". I don't recall just what the difference is - converted
the source to lowercase in tbasic2.asm... I may have allowed case
insensitive commands. No guarantee it's right! Good luck!

(the original assembler was "Zasm", apparently)

Best,
Frank

[s_dub...@nospicedham.yahoo.com]

On Jan 17, 7:46 am, Frank Kotler

<fbkot...@nospicedham.myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> xlar54 wrote:
> > Looking for 8086 BASIC interpreter source.. the very old kind with
> > line numbers, etc.  I found tinybasic for the 8080, but Im not sure
> > how to convert it.
>
> Some time ago, we read this:
>
> ------------------------------
> Subject: What flavor of ancient X86 assembler is this ?
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:09:44 -0000
> From: "jdm" <jdm1intx@DIE_SPAMBOT_DIEhome.com>

> Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadbandhttp://home.com/faster

Hey, works for me, thanks Frank.

8086 tiny basic v1.1 27 june 82

ok
>100 2+3
>edit 100
100 2+3
>100 x = 2+3
>110 print x
>200 stop
>run
5

ok
>list
100 x = 2+3
110 print x
200 stop

ok
>bye

-f bin
-l TINYBAS2.LST
-E TINYBAS2.WPD
-o TINYBAS2.BIN
tbasic2.asm

Steve