Noob on 8BP (how to?)

[Fabrizio Radica]

Hi
I'm interested in coding 8BP in place of Locomotive Basic but on real Hardware.
It's possible? How?

I've already an M4 board.

Thank's in advanced

[AMSDOS]

Hi
I'm interested in coding 8BP in place of Locomotive Basic but on real Hardware.
It's possible? How?

I've already an M4 board.

Thank's in advanced

I'm not quite sure if you're asking how to get it onto your real machine, or how it operates as I'm without the M4 board.

[Fabrizio Radica]

I'm not quite sure if you're asking how to get it onto your real machine, or how it operates as I'm without the M4 board.

I would like to programming on real CPC with 8BP, without use any PC.
I've also M4 board to store the entire project in place of drive
Sorry for my poor english

[AMSDOS]

I would like to programming on real CPC with 8BP, without use any PC.
I've also M4 board to store the entire project in place of drive
Sorry for my poor english

Not your fault English is a poor language, one thing may totally mean something else.


Re:8BP. I think it's just a matter of using Winape Edit Disk to copy the files from that DSK image and paste that onto a SD card, then popping that into your M4 board & load onto your real CPC using the software for the M4 board I presume.

[tjohnson]

I would suggest developing on the PC then transferring the code to the CPC.  I've been using Notepad++ to create the programs in basic then copying them into Winape, once I've done I'll transfer to the physical hardware for the genuine experience.  I think that is probably more efficient than coding on the CPC itself.

[AMSDOS]

I would suggest developing on the PC then transferring the code to the CPC.  I've been using Notepad++ to create the programs in basic then copying them into Winape, once I've done I'll transfer to the physical hardware for the genuine experience.  I think that is probably more efficient than coding on the CPC itself.

It's a fair point since with perhaps the exception of the early 464 all the other CPCs have Membranes, coding may wear it out. 


While the keyboard still works on my 6128, pressing down on the keys has a rough feeling to it, I simply find using Emulator & development program in that is about as close as developing on a real machine. Though I guess each is to their own. 

[tjohnson]

One of my reasons for suggesting using a PC is that in anything other than mode 2 I find it too low resolution to effectively read code, so much easier to scroll around lines of code in notepad and anyone who is now use to a modern keyboard layout will find it slight infuriating that some key symbols are in different locations.  I think it was common even back in the day to code on something else and then transfer across, perhaps something like the PCW was used as it had a lot more memory and a good screen for text and potentially easy compatibility with the disk type and format.