Eremey Valetov
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RND can now be called without parentheses (equivalent to RND(1)), matching real GW-BASIC behavior for legacy code compatibility. Update all Sphinx documentation pages to reflect features added in v0.6.0-0.8.0: DATE$/TIME$/TIMER, FILES/SHELL/CHDIR/MKDIR/RMDIR, AUTO/RENUM/DELETE, COMMON, LPRINT/LLIST with --lpt, --full TUI flag, dynamic screen buffer, 54 tests.
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Roadmap
Planned Features
- EDIT statement — edit a specific program line in the TUI
- ON KEY / ON TIMER event trapping — periodic event handlers for interactive programs
- BSAVE / BLOAD — binary file save/load for screen buffers and data
- DEF SEG — memory segment declaration for PEEK/POKE/BSAVE/BLOAD
- PRINT USING edge cases —
**asterisk fill,**$combined - Binary SAVE/LOAD — Protected (,P) and tokenized binary formats
- GET/PUT graphics — sprite capture and blit for graphics mode
- TUI color support — map GW-BASIC COLOR attributes to ANSI 16-color output
- INKEY$ extended keys — return CHR$(0) + scan code for arrow keys and function keys, matching the original two-byte encoding
- VIEW / WINDOW / PALETTE — graphics viewport, coordinate mapping, and palette
IDE and Notebook Integration
- Jupyter kernel for GW-BASIC — a Jupyter Notebook kernel that runs
GW-BASIC programs cell-by-cell, with rich output for
PRINT, inline graphics rendering for drawing commands, and interactiveINPUTvia notebook widgets. Similar in spirit to foxkernel. - JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ/CLion) — full-featured language plugin with
syntax highlighting, code completion, line number navigation, run
configurations, debugger integration (breakpoints via
STOP, variable inspection), structure view (line number outline), and error annotations. - VS Code extension — language extension providing syntax highlighting (TextMate grammar), snippets, run/debug tasks, integrated terminal runner, and Language Server Protocol support for diagnostics and hover info.
Known Limitations
- No binary/protected file format support (ASCII only)
PEEK/POKEare stubs (POKE parses and discards, PEEK returns 0)- String garbage collection not implemented (uses
malloc/freeinstead) - Maximum 256 variables, 64 arrays, 16 FOR nesting, 24 GOSUB nesting, 16 WHILE nesting
- Hardware I/O (OUT, INP, WAIT, COM, MOTOR) not implemented — no modern equivalent