Speed optimizations: BASIC65 is average 5 times faster than BASIC10 at the same CPU setting.
New constants: Hex constants 32 bits in size.New commands: LOCK, UNLOCK, INFO, RPLAY, FREEZER, MOUNT, CHDIR, FGOTO, FGOSUB, FREAD, FWRITE, FONT, SPEED, EDMA, RSPEED, DOT.Commands extended: PEEK, POKE, SYS, SCREEN, DMA, BLOAD, BVERIFY, SPRSAV, DIRECTORY, COPY, PLAY, HIGHLIGHT, INSTR, FOR, NEXT.
Planned commands – now implemented: GCOPY, CUT, PASTE. To summarize just some parts of his impressive work: To get an impression of what he achieved please look at the ROM history page. He has now been working on the MEGA65 ROM for over a year and turned it into something Commodore fans only could have dreamed of in the 1980s and 90s: BASIC 65. Bit Shifter started the same way the MEGA65 team did with the project: Picking up what Commodore had to leave behind (BASIC 10) and continue from there. The first step was to reestablish the tool chain that Commodore used to create their ROM, there is a post in the MEGA65 blog that describes this process very well. Once the team had official permission to use the C65 ROM for the MEGA65 project, Bit Shifter decided to take on the task and look at the ROMs source files. It will certainly not have been the last event – if you want to learn more about the MEG65 community or even take part, you should stop by here. Playable stations in the exhibition were an Atari Video Music, a Deamcast loaded with Soul Calibur, which was occupied by elementary school students for hours, an Atari VCS with H.E.R.O, an NES with Zelda, a Sharp X68000 with Chourensha and Doshin the Giant on a Nintendo 64DD, which activated the bigger ones and the nostalgic, and finally T42 – Tennis for Two, which with CODE RED/Adventure Vision and SHizZLE/Pokemon Mini complemented previous MEGA activities in the context of reconstruction, development and digital art & craft. Bernd Ulmann, who demonstrated his new development The Analog Thing, as a guest speaker. IT specialists, experts for hardware and software, MEGA65 users, involved developers and their kids as well as other interested parties did participate. The event on Saturday, August 27th 2022 delighted many hearts and the MEGA65 release was a complete success.
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