Chipmunk Basic is an interpreter for the BASIC programming language.
If a filename parameter is given on the command line, then the named program file is loaded into memory and run.
Basic commands and statements can be entered and interpreted in immediate mode or executed as program statements when the Basic program is run. A built-in line number based editor allows program input from the console keyboard; but Basic programs do not require line numbers when run from files. Refer to this documentation for the commands, statements and functions that the Basic interpreter recognizes.
This documentation is derived directly from the basic-manpage.txt file distributed with Chipmunk Basic. Comments in italics have been added by Jim DeVona (along with some others, no doubt), and are not part of the original documentation cited below. Additional empirical Chipmunk Basic documentation might be found at Jim's Chipmunk Basic page. Any errors or inconsistencies in this particular documentation should be attributed to Jim.
David Gillespie wrote basic.p 1.0 and the p2c lib. Ron Nicholson (rhn@nicholson.com) added file i/o, graphics and did the MacOS, Linux and Windows ports. (1990Aug-2002Sept) David Forrest (drf5n@virginia.edu) converted this man page (basic-manpage.txt) to nroff (1999 March). Jim DeVona adapted this documentation to framed HTML (2003 November).
Portions of this document (basic-manpage.txt) are Copyright © 1989 Dave Gillespie. Portions of this document are Copyright © 1994, 2002 Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. All rights reserved. "Applesoft" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., etc.