prgmCELTIC2

[Iambian]

This is an oddly-named ASM utility designed to empower BASIC programs with... well, stuff.

Currently, it reads to and writes from any BASIC program. Reading can be accomplished from RAM or Archive. It creates a new program variable so that you can insert these new lines into it. It performs archive/unarchive of a specified variable on command. It outputs the doublequote and the STO symbol into a string for substring extraction so that you can insert into your BASIC program commands that require the use of the STO symbol (i.e. writing a command to store info to a string).

So far, it's been relatively stable, but I don't want to "release" it just yet. I just feel a little leery about releasing something potentially buggy, so I'd rather want to put it through beta testing prior to release.

The potential of this project is great. Some suggested or possible uses include:

- Writing BASIC programs that contain nothing but string data
- Reading from archive the aforementioned programs.
- Simple archiving/unarchiving of program variables
- Create and edit your own files from a BASIC program
- SMC in BASIC programs (limited. Use at own risk)

Do you think I should add in a few more "features"? If so, what might be useful?
I can think of a few but I'm not sure how useful they'd be.
My thoughts:
- Program deletion. Just thought about it.
- Address saving for quickly reading/writing at the end of large files (though it may slow down reading/writing of small files) if doing so in sequential order. I say this because during testing, replacing lines at the end of a 900 line program was taking too long. I'm sure reading would be no different.
- Retrieve amount of RAM remaining. I was told this was unnecessary.
- Retrieve amount of RAM a certain program variable is using. Ditto above.

Any thoughts of yours?
(Btw, this program currently weighs in at 700-800 bytes. Would this be a problem?)

[elfprince13]

that sounds pretty cool, how hard would it be to allow people to write to AppVars as well?

[tifreak8x]

sweet. I could use this for Pokemon Purple... This could come in very very handy for status information, change in levels, etc... O_O

Could we get a screenshot of this in action?

[kermmartian]

This sounds like an interesting concept. Nice job.

[Iambian]

The program is available for download at my website. http://iambianet.freewebpage.org

For testing, please make sure that all the features work without memory leaks. Also, I'd like to know how well handling of strings and lines over 255 characters works out. Please be reminded that this program may still have bugs, so be wary.