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Now Available! Program your SX in BASIC!

allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
edited 2004-11-04 19:29 in General Discussion
After hinting and teasing, Parallax has *finally* released a Basic compiler for the SX.· Now you can write your program in a higher level language than Assembly, with Parallax supplied macros for SEROUT, PAUSE(msec), etc.· And it's a true compiler -- no more 'token' lookups, just full speed assembly output.

Check it out -- it's SX/B, included in the new (free) SX IDE 3.0 download!

Note the Basic compiler has been 'simplified' from PBasic to generate efficient SX code.· However, Parallax has implemented many of their PBasic 'keyword' constructs to make your SX life easier.· This package may still require you to learn SX assembly language, but will simplify the process a lot.

Finally, a Basic compiler for the SX.· Thanks Parallax, you guys are the best!
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Comments

  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2004-11-02 17:19
    Glad to see that somebody is excited -- it was a lot of hard work by the development team. You don't really need to know SX assembly to use SX/B, but you do have to understand the SX architecture. If one uses the included programming template that will ease things a bit. The help file includes some real-world examples (including a full-featured serial LCD controller) and there will be more to come.

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    Applications Engineer, Parallax
    Dallas Office
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2004-11-02 17:40
    Jon,

    ·· Any apparent lack of enthusiasm is probably just a result of the offset feeling of, "OH MY GOD!· NOW I HAVE TO MAKE MORE TIME SO I CAN PROGRAM IN SX/B!!!"

    In my case I decided to cut out sleep...Who needs it anyway!· rolleyes.gif

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    Knight Designs
    324 West Main Street
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    Montour Falls, NY 14865
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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2004-11-04 19:29
    Very cool that Parallax has decided to put out a·BASIC compiler for SX. I am very happy that I ended not choosing·to do this for the programming contest. It was a close second to the project I am doing, whew!

    Paul
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