Antti, if you are going to produce a BASIC compiler, I suggest that you
look at using BS 2 syntax, not BS1. In particular, the BS-2 way of
defining/using variables is much better. And it would be nice to have
the BS2 features ... in particular, SHIFTIN/SHIFTOUT.

I'd be happy to help you beat the devil out of the beast, if you do a
BS-2 version. I have the Micro Engineering Labs Picbasic (BS-1) and it
works well, but a freeware or shareware BS-2 would be a lot better.

Larry

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>From:  Antti Lukats[SMTP:antti@SISTUDIO.COM]
>Sent:  Monday, December 02, 1996 5:07 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list PICLIST
>Subject:       Christmas lights with PIC Basic anyone?
>
>(snip)
>In the meantime I am making experiments with our tiny basic compiler
>which is today very very alfa, but already produces some useable code.
>
>I am wondering if there is anyone around who would be interested to
>test it in this early stage?
>
>currently supported features are
>
>Basic Stamp I syntax
>byte vars
>for next
>goto gosub
>+ - and or xor /2
>pause and some more tokens,
>eeprom, read/write
>
>