Not a moment before time, I finally got round to having a look at this. What's on the disk image isn't quite the code for what's in the utils half of the 32 KB ABE ROM, but it's near enough. I was hoping there'd be some code for the editor part of the ROM too, but it looks like that is indeed absent, and at this point presumably lost.I had a quick look but I can't seem to find any code that's related to the bit that's like the Acornsoft BASIC Editor - if you do a search for the string "are strings", for example (as printed by the HELP command) then nothing turns up. I'll be having a proper look through what's there soon thoughTom:Not sure if you've had a look at the Advanced Basic Editor Code that ACP sold, here. But if there's anything in there that would be of use, please help yourself. No issues with (c) as this version is with Baildon Electronics - So, now available to all
I've cobbled together some buildable code for the ABE ROMs, partly based on the above (plus the small amount of missing stuff - this builds one of the 16 KB halves), and partly based on my original disassembly of the Acornsoft BASIC editor (building the other 16 KB half). I haven't gone through this properly yet, but I do have some indication of what the code changes are between the ABE editor and the Acornsoft editor.
Next step is to go through the ABE changes and see if any of them could be usefully applied to the updated BASIC Editor. Mincebert's Electron changes will make some of the Electron stuff irrelevant I expect, but maybe there'll be some fixes worth keeping.
After that? I'd quite like to think about doing an updated ABE with the updated BASIC editor... but one thing at a time...!
--Tom
P.S. Notes here, plus instructions for building the code: https://github.com/tom-seddon/basic_edi ... aster/pres - mainly for my own purposes, but there they are, should anybody else be interested
Statistics: Posted by tom_seddon — Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:57 pm