ZBasic Forum

I took a quick look at the Xmega parts, a nice upgrade but remain fundamentally 8-bit parts. As for applications for ZBasic based chips. The ease of use, rich built-in library, and support for multitasking make it good tool for a lot of applications. The range of applications suitable for it's use w...

@mikep Since you brought up wish lists :D , I think its about time to move ZBasic off the 8-bit Atmel platform to one of the new 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 based processors. Compared to the current 'high-end' ZX128x based chips, a Luminary Micro LM3S1608 is/has: At Least 1,333K VM instructions/s (72 MIPs ...

Besides the requirement to type in lots of extra code to send debug information to the console, the problem is the intrusive effect of the debug statements have on the execution timing of the code. Not only the Console.Writeline() statements, but the additional "If.. Then .. Else ... End If cod...

I'm a new user of ZBasic controllers. While I find the language and it's hardware embodiment powerful, support for program debugging is non-existent. What passes for debugging amounts to nothing more that output to the console. Even the standard BASIC statement STOP is non-functional. What passes fo...