Arduino Mega 2560 BASIC interpreter with TVout

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Hi, I have an Arduino Mega 2560, with TVOut and a ps/2 keyboard attached:
I was wondering if i can make a BASIC interpreter with my arduino and if someone have found a code working.

p.s. I know with only one Arduino the sync doesn't work well.

Thanks.

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To make and interpreter reading BASIC code, yes. Just build the functionality You want. For hobby (home built) computers there once was a Tiny basic interpreter.

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Your favorite search engine and the phrase "arduino tiny basic" will turn up many interesting links.

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Back in the day I purchased an Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P, that has BASIC in ROM (8K) and 4K dynamic RAM, expandable to 8K on board (which I never did, memory was too expensive). It sported a built-in keyboard.

Incredible what you could do with 4K RAM (3327 bytes free, reads upon power up) both in BASIC and 6502 assembler. I eventually stepped up to an Apple II, and the rest is history.

For some reason I still keep it.

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