@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space
Post #3287079
2026-04-03 05:23 UTC
@TheVoiceGuy@mastodon.au @Woody@dragonscave.space @AccessOn@nfb.social @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social Here's a very rough program which lets you type stuff, then have it read back. It does nothing to preserve what you typed before, and there are some issues like that you can't use commas or colons, and each thing you enter can only be around 255 characters long or so, but this program is so small you can just type it in yourself.
First, at the Ready prompt, type NEW and press Return, to clear out the program currently in memory.
Then type each of the following lines in exactly, including the line number, pressing Return after each line:
10 INPUT A$
20 IF A$ = "" THEN END
30 PRINT A$
40 GOTO 10
Then type RUN and press Return to run your new program. It won't say anything, but if you type something then press Return, it'll read it back to you. Press Return on a blank line to exit.
Replies (2)
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@TheVoiceGuy@mastodon.au 2026-04-03 05:25
@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @Woody@dragonscave.space @AccessOn@nfb.social @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social thanks so much for this.
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@remixman@kind.social 2026-04-03 14:26
@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space LOL reading this short BASIC program is giving me flashbacks to Blazie BASIC, one of the only BASIC variants I really used. Are there modern BASIC variants that people still use? And I'm not on about Visual BASIC or anything like that.