PlasMa - 30B. BASIC speed-up x6+

Details of speed-up mod to the Tiny BASIC interpreter in PleX. Apologies for poor audio quality.
Original C version of Tiny BASIC by Peter Chapman, available from GitHub:
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Tiny BASIC example programs by Damian Gareth Walker
More details in the BASIC playlist • PlasMa BASIC Interpreter
The full PlasMa playlist is here • PlasMa - A mini-mainfr... More details, including the Build Guide document and other downloads for the PlasMaSim simulator and Plasm assembler, at www.philizound....
Red LED PlasMa built by Matthias:
photos.app.goo...

[@davidgari3240]

Good old Microsoft BASICA and Qbasic stored tokenized (bytecode) natively. You had to specify an option to save as ASCII text. Whether or not it RAN bytecode, I don't know.

[@philtipping]

@davidgari3240 I remember the old Sinclair Spectrum even had BASIC keywords printed on its qwerty keys, so I guess it entered bytecodes directly. I was surprised to find so many variants out there; seems like every machine offered its own flavour. I never really got into the language, having cut my teeth on Pascal, but it's been an interesting project. Thanks for stopping by.