Re: Software for MS-DOS 1.25

From: Michał Pleban <*lists_at_michau.name*> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:43:37 +0200 Message-ID: <59D8F629.8050907@michau.name> · lists_at_michau.name

Hello!

smf wrote:

> In GWBASIC it's SYSTEM, I don't know if MSBASIC is the same.

Yes! Thank you.

> I believe the 6502 and x86 code are entirely seperate and apart from
> them both being basic interpreters, they have nothing really in common.

You're right. I downloaded the manual from:

http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/lang/lang.htm

It seems the language is much more powerful (which should not be
surprising, given the executable is over 40 kB versus 8 kB in the
Commodore).

In fact, the manual has this little paragraph at point D.7.2 "To return
to CP/M, use the SYSTEM command". I would have never found it myself, it
is hidden so well - I discovered it only retroactively looking for
"SYSTEM" in the index.

> You may want to get cbmbasic from http://www.pagetable.com/?p=48 running
> on MSDOS 1.25 instead.

Now only if I got a C compiler for MS-DOS 1.25... ;-)

Regards.
Michau.

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