Basic BASIC programming - help!
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:14 am
Hi,
Possibly a strange request for help, but here goes:
1984, and then 1987 sees two publications by a dedicated grandfather for his grandchildren. Being a Sinclair fan he included some homemade QL programs written in text at the back, that would no doubt render images,etc to accompany the stories. Brilliant, hey?! So here I am, 30 years later, trying to decipher them, with no programming experience whatsoever. This is what I would like to achieve:
Type out the code
Run the code
View the image/animation/result
Record the image/animation/result in a meaningful way - e.g fullscreen screenshot, or animated gif, or youtube video or whatever makes sense.
As I want to republish the book to give as gifts to family members what would be even better would be if I could somehow provide them with a USB stick with the book that would have very simple step by step instructions on how to 'run' the program so that they can see the results for themselves.
I have tried installing QEmulator, and have managed to get as far as typing out a bit of code, but don't understand how I might be able to save it in someway. Also, can I cut and paste from a windows text file in some way?
As you can guess, I really have no idea what I'm doing, but I would like to get this done so that I can send it to Grandpa, him being 94 and all...
Thanks for any help,
Regards,
Laurie
Possibly a strange request for help, but here goes:
1984, and then 1987 sees two publications by a dedicated grandfather for his grandchildren. Being a Sinclair fan he included some homemade QL programs written in text at the back, that would no doubt render images,etc to accompany the stories. Brilliant, hey?! So here I am, 30 years later, trying to decipher them, with no programming experience whatsoever. This is what I would like to achieve:
Type out the code
Run the code
View the image/animation/result
Record the image/animation/result in a meaningful way - e.g fullscreen screenshot, or animated gif, or youtube video or whatever makes sense.
As I want to republish the book to give as gifts to family members what would be even better would be if I could somehow provide them with a USB stick with the book that would have very simple step by step instructions on how to 'run' the program so that they can see the results for themselves.
I have tried installing QEmulator, and have managed to get as far as typing out a bit of code, but don't understand how I might be able to save it in someway. Also, can I cut and paste from a windows text file in some way?
As you can guess, I really have no idea what I'm doing, but I would like to get this done so that I can send it to Grandpa, him being 94 and all...
Thanks for any help,
Regards,
Laurie