Y a b a s i c   2 . 6 4  /  P S 2
News Archive:
"January"
   
  31 January 2001
21:20 Just received the sourcecode for Yabasic on the Playstation! Get it as a 84kb zipfile by clicking here. (you may have to use the 'save as' function). This will perhaps only be exciting news for some of you (those who read .c code), but those others will expect an even better overview of and insight in what and what isn't supported by the PS2 version to make it to these pages shortly, when I've delved through the code myself. 
  25 January 2001
08:38 Updated the reference section with the "library" system parameter. You can't do much with it yet, but we try to be complete, yes? Thanks to John Wordsworth for pointing it out.
  23 January 2001
00:37 A big apology everyone - haven't been able to put in much work on the site, because I'm very busy buying a house and that's taking up most of my time and energy. But to keep you busy I've posted a bit of code that I programmed earlier, which demonstrates some nice graphical effects - nothing too extreme, but not too bad neither. Expect a decent Q&A here soon, as I'm daily receiving some Q's, and the A's may be of general interest. Also, I'll make sure that the different sections will get their own menus. Expect all that somewhere this week (say thursday or friday).  
  16 January 2001
01:23 Well, my legs are freezing (I can't sufficiently heat this place at the moment, when it's below 0 Celcius) and I'll probably regret it tomorrow when I have to get up early, but I promised you this Tekken thing and so I wrote the first part and posted it for you. Hope you enjoy it. Hey, don't complain about the being a little late thing  - looking back it's not so bad for a first week, now is it? ;-)  
  15 January 2001
21:40 I went through the reference once more and added the last few remaining commands (static, local, beep, wait, etc) and descriptions (for read, data, restore, etc) that where missing, and corrected a mistake (numvars -> numparams). 
  14 January 2001
03:10 Yes, I broke my promise - no Tekken Trainer example yet. Instead, I added part 5 of the Beginner's Guide, "Statements and Control of Flow Commands". This last BG installment will bring the newbies up to speed with the principles required for the case studies which will follow, of which programming the controller to create a kind of "Tekken Trainer" will be the first. The first part of that case study will come real soon - I hope even somewhere today (that means Sunday, in case you're wondering). First, it's rather definitely bed-time. 
  13 January 2001
00:49 Added part 4, "Expressions, Statements, and Boolean Logic". Also added a warning about right$ in part 3 - I realised (fortunately before someone actually told me) that some of you might try out the code and come up with an error, because right$ is also a function in Yabasic and you may therefore not use it as a string variable of your own. 
  11 January 2001
22:59 Added part 3, "Assignments and Expressions", to the beginner's guide. Whenever I add a part to the beginner's guide, I'll also add the title of the next part to the contents so that you have something to look forward to. I still have more parts prepared than you've seen so far, so don't worry - plenty more is coming. 

I hope to have the first examples posted by Saturday, so you have something to look forward to this weekend. The first example will demonstrate how to use the controller, and is tentatively called "Virtual Tekken Trainer" ... should keep you warm and on your toes, that one. ;-)

09:07 Noticed that somewhere along the line I'd decided to change the order in which I added these new updates (from "latest last" to "latest first",), so changed that in the rest of the updates to latest first too, the more so since the dates are ordered the same way.
01:07 Added part 2, "Types of Instructions", to the beginner's guide.
01:00 Added bookmarks to the reference and put links to the bookmarks in the contents. Then had to change them to make them Netscape friendly. ;-) 
  10 January 2001
23:59 Added part 1 of the beginner's guide, "Introduction to Programming", and expanded the Contents with the first entries for the beginner's guide. 
23:56 Added date$ and time$ to the reference.
20:15 Added "screenwidth" and "screenheight" system variables to the reference. 
  9 January 2001
02:53 Submitted the pages to Altavista and Yahoo and added a counter. Probably a link to this site will appear on www.yabasic.de soon too. Let's see how quickly and how many of you desparate souls out there will find me. ;-)

Well, bed-time already. 

01:35 Updated reference with string manipulation and variable declaration sections. Reference is now well-nigh complete
  8 January 2001
22:08 Posted a links page.
21:30 Birth of this site. Site starts off with what you see right now, and a nearly complete reference to the Yabasic language on the PS 2. You'll also find a few basic tips about keyboards and such. 

 

On the "To Do" list:
Post descriptions of built-in examples
Post other examples