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Where do I find a program that can transfer basic to asm hex?
Check ticalc.org for a Basic to Z80 ASM compiler (although it only creates Apps if I remember right)
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Kllrnohj wrote:
Check ticalc.org for a Basic to Z80 ASM compiler (although it only creates Apps if I remember right)
The program you're thinking of is called BASICBuilder; all it does is compress your BASIC programs into an App. There's no good BASIC-->ASM converter, if that's what you mean, blm22. The link to BASICBuilder:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/321/32127.html
I believe this program is supposed to compile BASIC into assembly, but I think I tried to use it awile back and couldn't get it to work. Sad

Oh God how I wish there was a reliable and easy-to-use BASIC to asm compiler!
MDR Falcon wrote:
I believe this program is supposed to compile BASIC into assembly, but I think I tried to use it awile back and couldn't get it to work. Sad

Oh God how I wish there was a reliable and easy-to-use BASIC to asm compiler!
Ain't gonna happen in the near future - the two languages are just way too different.
But... when you run a BASIC program, the code is translated to machine code and then executed, right? So wouldn't it be theoretically possible to write a program that compiled BASIC programs to machine code/assembly?
MDR Falcon wrote:
But... when you run a BASIC program, the code is translated to machine code and then executed, right? So wouldn't it be theoretically possible to write a program that compiled BASIC programs to machine code/assembly?
Not at *all*. Most of BASIC is interpretation to TI's ROMcalls to do math. In ASM, you'd just be directly calling those ROMcalls, which wouldn't save much speed at all.
MDR Falcon wrote:
But... when you run a BASIC program, the code is translated to machine code and then executed, right? So wouldn't it be theoretically possible to write a program that compiled BASIC programs to machine code/assembly?


You must remember that Basic is an interperated language, not a compiled language, much like JavaScript never reaches machine-code level.

So think of it more like this... (assume tok points to the current token)

Code:
if (tok = '+')
Ans = add(tok - 1, tok + 1)
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