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Has potential on the Raspberry Pi.
by owlpic 15y ago
Has potential on the Raspberry Pi.
- antirez 15y agoThat's my target, I hope that when the Raspberry PI will be available enough, Codakido will be functional enough to be a good alternative to the BBC micro BASIC.
- asb 15y agoHi Salvatore. I'll run it on my alpha board this evening and let you know how it currently performs.
- antirez 15y agoThat's awesome asb, thanks!
- seclorum 15y agoWorks great on my Beagleboard already! 10 points to you for using SDL and making it build so cleanly .. EDIT: just wanted to add, it works fabulously on my Open Pandora console as well!
- antirez 15y agoGreat :) Thanks you for testing it. Probably adding full screen support makes sense at this point.
- seclorum 15y agoQuite easy to do! :) BTW, I wanted to say that I think that Lua as a first-programming-language for kids is a great idea! So much easier to explain a Lua table to someone than types and so on .. And quite performant, in the end, eh? I've been using MOAI for cross-platform game development, and now your little project is going to get some love in the homebrew sense, too .. what about adding sound at some point?
- seclorum 15y agoAnnnd .. here's a followup one day later. I released the PND for the Open Pandora console, in case anyone is interested: http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/7405-here-is-a-pnd-for-load81/ http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/7405-here-is-... Added fullscreen support and wrapped it in a launcher for file selection, courtesy of PickleLauncher (helpful utility for precisely this sort of thing in the Open Pandora scene..)
- asb 15y agoAppears to be painfully sluggish under X (Raspberry Pi doesn't yet have graphics acceleration there, totally not your fault). Somewhat better under SDL on the framebuffer, but I keyboard input doesn't seem to be working there. I only gave this a really quick go and it's on a wheezy rootfs I prepared, but running a rather old version of the RPi kernel. I'll delve into it in more detail later in the week.
- kokey 15y agoI like the choice of Lua and SDL, not only as a modern LOGO/BASIC alternative. I think it can go much further. I guess as a minimum you want the editor to function to the level of notepad/pico/nano, and then perhaps have helpers with regards to indenting, and after that error marking similar to that of QBASIC, and after that syntax highlighting.
- zxdunny 15y agoI'm also hoping to port this to the rPI: http://www.specbas.co.uk http://www.specbas.co.uk which is Sinclair BASIC for modern PCs... Seems the PI is going to be spoilt for choice :)