Y a b a s i c   2 . 6 4  /  P S 2
L a t e s t   N e w s . . .
 
It's new, it's fresh, and ... it's all about programming in Yabasic on your precious Sony Playstation 2!  Just like you expected or hoped, on this site you will find all sorts of tips, guides and examples to help you get aquainted with programming on the little beast. 

Arwin van Arum ( a.arum@wxs.nl ),
Amsterdam 2001

  13 February 2001
22:38 Finished cleaning up the TextEx sub and provided a code example to go with it. Check it out - it will make your life easier when you want to provide your users with any kind of textual information.

Also discovered two bugs in the menu-example, which I've fixed and highlighted - from now on I'll highlight all bugs that have been present in the code, so that you can spot the changes easily and make the necessary adjustments in your own version of the code. 

00:35 There was a slight mistake in the Pong example pointed out by its author which I've corrected (it read setdrawbuffer somwhere, instead of setdrawbuf), so if you couldn't get the code to work, this change might help. Also, I've put the link in the overall contents as well as the example specific contents, so that more of you can find it. ;-)

Additionally, I've finally been working on a decent routine tonight and succeeded in completing it even - it's a routine with which you can place a string in graphics mode anywhere on the screen. It automatically wraps the text for you, justifies it, and you can specify margins, position, character-spacing, line-spacing, etc. I'll finalise it into handy subroutine form and then post it right here as soon as possible - hopefully tomorrow night. 

  11 February 2001
01:01

Added the "Pong" example, which was submitted by Pieter-Bas IJdens."Pong" is a Yabasic PS/2 adaptation of the classic "Pong" game made famous by Atari a long, long time ago, when even I myself was still in my pre-teens ... . Thanks to Pieter-Bas for submitting this example, and for the rest of you - have fun with it! 

Also, I saw an add for the  DexDrive for PS/2 which allow you to transfer and backup files from your PS/2 memory card to your PC and vice versa, which is coming out, in the US at least, at the end of February. There are more of these gadgets around, and it's very likely to be possible to up and download programs with them, which saves you a lot of typing (and frustration over typing errors you might have made), so be sure to check them out. I myself have a lot of faith in the DexDrive because their device for the original Playstation was great also, so I'm holding out for that one and hope it gets here soon. 

  2 February 2001
11:09 Had to stay home because of a serious throatache, so I decided I could do a little easy work on this site. Each menu item now has it's own contents page. Mind that the link to the page you're reading right now  (the latest news page) has moved to under Yabasic / PS2  in the menu. The "Latest News" page now takes you to the contents of the News Archive. 

Get the sourcecode (in C) for Yabasic on the Playstation as a 84kb zipfile by clicking here (you may have to use the 'save as' function, depending on your browser and settings).  

 

On the "To Do" list:
Post descriptions of built-in examples
Post other examples
Post a Q&A page