Boriel BASIC

General

About

About Boriel BASIC SDK

ChangeLog

A reduced list of changes/bugfixes

Installation

How to install Boriel BASIC SDK in your system, and prerequisites for doing so.

SDK tools

Tools available in the SDK.

Command line options

Command line options table for the compiler (zxb)

Download

Get the latest version of Boriel BASIC from the archive.

Released programs

Released programs

A list of third-party released programs (mostly games) for the ZX-Spectrum developed with Boriel BASIC.

Learning Boriel BASIC

Language Reference

Language syntax

Language Syntax is very close to the original Sinclair BASIC, but it's expanded and enhanced.

Data types

Language data types: Instead of working always with Floating Point numbers (also available), there are also some integer types which are faster an take less memory.

Reserved words

Comprehensive list (alphabetically ordered) of identifiers you shouldn't use as a ''variable name''. E.g. FOR , PRINT . If you want usage instructions on a statement, also look here.

Standard libraries

Standard libraries that comes bundled with Boriel BASIC compiler.

Tutorials

Programming tutorials

A collection of third-party tutorials about development with Boriel BASIC.

Sample Programs

Sample programs you can try to see what Boriel BASIC looks like and how fast it runs.

Sample Games

Some little games examples.

Help and Support

Community Forum

Have a question? Need help or comment a report a bug? Go to the Boriel BASIC forum

External resources

Here you are external resources: other tools, IDEs, graphic designers and projects related to Boriel BASIC. Have a look!

External libraries

Library

Library of functions and subroutines you can use in your programs. You might find them really useful.

Inline assembler

Embedding inline assembler in your code is pretty easy. There's a tutorial on it.

Compiler internals

Only for true hackers: This explains how the compiler does its job, how to expand it, etc. This is work in progress .

Other Architectures

Boriel BASIC was designed from the base as a Retargeable Compiler, so it should be not hard to extend it to other architectures. This is work in progress . See other architectures for more info.

Contributing

You can issue a Pull Request to the GitHub repository, report bugs in the forum when using the compiler, suggest new features...