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BASIC details

Posted on 21st Jan 2018

The syntax of this BASIC is much like the original Microsoft BASIC, QBASIC or early versions of Visual BASIC. As part of the compile process a modified version of the C pre-processor is called that allows #include, #define, #ifdef ... #endif, #if ... #endif, #error and #warn

Linux Update

Posted on 20th Jan 2018

Thanks to Olzeke, this has been updated and checked on multiple-*nix systems. BASIC support for Linux has been updated for the new ARM Stamp. Files download here

Dice Roller

Dice Roller

Posted on 12th Jan 2018

by Zeke Wow, what a week! Started this blog report with the goal of making a 'Dice' roller for my war-gaming. I had some TIL-311 dotmatrix hexadecimal displays from way back when. [old]

A New Guest Blogger

A New Guest Blogger

Posted on 18th Dec 2017

Coming soon a new blogger

Hackaday covers the Kickstarter

Hackaday covers the Kickstarter

Posted on 28th Oct 2017

Hackaday wrote a nice article on our Kickstarter campaign. October 28, 2017 by Brian Benchoff Back in the Before Times, when microcontroller development required ultraviolet light, building anything was a pain. You probably had to burn a ROM onto a chip with a parallel programmer, there was no in-circuit programming, and who knows what would happen if you needed a serial port.

Kickstarter for a new Stamp

Kickstarter for a new Stamp

Posted on 21st Oct 2017

The Parallax BASIC Stamp once the center of DIY electronic control is now 25 years old without an update. So this successful Kickstarter campaign will launch a new stamp version based on a USB ARM CPU, with 700 times the performance and 100 times the memory. Programmable in BASIC or C as well as other languages.