Home computer BASIC performance tests, some benchmarks by retro64

[ComSoft6128]

We have a winner:

http://retro64.altervista.org/blog/home-computer-basic-performance-tests-some-benchmarks/

[GUNHED]

Well, happy weekend then! 

[HAL6128]

Oh yes, Locomotive BASIC rocks. A very good implementation for that time, and yes, good and solid firmware instructions for that use case.

[LambdaMikel]

Indeed, sometime I wish the CPC BASIC would not have been so great... I might have started with Z80 assembly programming much earlier then! But with such an awesome BASIC it delayed my transition quite a bit 

[Gryzor]

Oooh yes.


For fun, some time ago I had used a BASIC program to draw winners for some corporate competitions we did on Facebook. Because -IIRC- the built-in random number generator is not so random I had found some program online and used that in WinAPE. Still, it was so fast I had to slow emulation down for some effect