MSX BASIC – lesson 7
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 7) Mathematical, relational and logical operators Today I will talk about the various operators that are fundamental in our Basic MSX programs. The mathematical operators, which we all know and use in our lives...
MSX BASIC – lesson 6
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 6) Mathematical functions and more In this episode I will give an overview of those functions that we will use very little but which are convenient to know and what they are for. ABS: Returns the absolute value of...
MSX BASIC – lesson 5
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 5) The TAB, LOCATE, POS and CRSLIN Functions Today I will talk about the functions that are used to help us position our printouts on the non-graphic screen and also know the cursor positions. Since I'm not...
MSX BASIC – lesson 3
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 3) PRINT USING As mentioned last time, I will talk about PRINT USING or formatted printing. This function allows you to specify the print format using special characters. They can be variable,...
MSX BASIC – lesson 4
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 3) Systems; Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal The Binary System uses only 2 numbers 0 and 1. It is read from right to left and is a positional system based on 2. To give an example, we want to write the number...
MSX BASIC – lesson 2
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 2) The Integer, Single and Double Precision Functions As we know, numbers are the main basis of calculators, without them they would not exist. Therefore, we need to know how to distinguish them for a good performance of our...
MSX BASIC – lesson 1
"MSX BASIC" COLUMN by Orazio Cacciola (part 1) The PRINT statement Greetings to everyone, a new column begins today, in which I will explain MSX Basic commands and functions that will be used to make our programs. For experts it will be a refresher, but for those...