[zx] BASINC 1.8 25/03/2025

Klawiatura Spektrum dość uprzykrzała żywot wklepywaczy hektorlitrów linijek programów w BASIC'u. BasinC pozwala naprawić ten problem;)

Basinc 1.8  Tuesday March 25th, 2025 arda

Let’s revisit some of the features in BasinC 1.8:

• BasinC automatically generates a list by analyzing lines containing Rem #<name> or GO SUB <number>. This makes it easier to navigate through your programs.
• With enhanced color controls, you can customize the editor’s colors as you wish and disable the blinking cursor.
• The BasinC ULA Plus Palette Editor allows you to generate the necessary BASIC code to make your game more colorful effortlessly.
• To help you keep track of your progress, BasinC lets you attach notes to selected parts of your project. These notes are saved alongside your .bas file.
• Don’t limit your Sinclair BASIC program to the ZX Spectrum screen! With SimpleCon, a simple serial interface, you can interact with a text output window in Windows—allowing for easy copy-pasting of input and output.
• The BasinC Snippets window lets you manage frequently used code fragments. You can easily renumber and insert them into your programs.
• Rewamped display window now has detailed stats to help you code better, you can snap display window to code window and utilize quick menu to generate drawing commands in code window.
• And now BasinC can open online help windows on your browser to avoid unending windows security issues with chm files. But it’s optional, local help file is still provided for your offline needs. Just enable offline help file and don’t forget to unlock basin help chm file in your folder. Check out Basinc Help Files Now.

Basinc 1.79.4 5/02/2023

• Added - UDG Editor Window, "Save" file option, CTRL+S, CTRL+O shortcuts, keeps track of open file and notify if there is a pixel modified as * in the title bar.
• Fixed - SimpleCON register couldn't be displayed as text because it was initialized as 0, now it is spaces.
• Changed-SimpleCON window was popping up in every character output. Now it only pops up when linefeed.

Basinc 1.79.3

• Fixed - Profile window was showing wrong token in strings. (reported by: lippmaje)

Basinc 1.79.2 (19.05.2022)

• Added - Basin Update Check (disabled by default, enable in Options)

Basinc 1.79.1 (19.05.2022)

• Added - BasinC Snippets
• Changed - SimpleCon behaviour. Not port 1515 commands sets the byte *then* increment the index. Port 1259,0 feeds the line to the log instead of 255.

Basinc1.78 (24.10.2021)

• Fixed - IF x THEN REM couldn't parsed by basinc, now patched, but may present new issues, due it's just a workaround.
• Fixed - When you execute a direct command, basic was corrupted temporarily. It's fixed by removing a wild syntax cropper.

Basinc 1.77 (14.10.2021)

• Added - UDG editor character setup option
• Added - UDG editor keyboard shortcuts
• Added - Add/Edit a note to Notes Window by right clicking on a statement in listing
• This is a step to overlay comments over program listing in a future release
• Added - Auto Show Note option in BasinC Options window. Disabling this will prevent project window to popup, even if a BAS file does contain notes.
• Fixed - save as.. Does not modify project name. (A workaround rather than a fix. Needs a bit more time)
• Fixed - Undo/redo buttonts on Image Editor (former Screen Paintbox) wouldn't work at start.
• Changed-Some Ctrl+Alt+ keyboard shortcuts was clashing with AltGR+A..U graphics mode shortcut. So all of them changed. Sorry.
• Added - Hotkey Toggle Tools. You may open *and* close following tools with single keycombo:
• Crtl-T Tokens, Ctrl+Alt+Z Notes, Ctrl+Alt+X Tapes, Ctrl+I Image Editor, Ctrl+U Udg Editor
• Changed-English tool names Graphics/Sprite Editor become UDG Editor, and Screen Paintbox become Image Editor for simplicity.

Basinc 1.76 (11.10.2020)

• Added - Project Notes Window
• Fixed - tooltip variables not showing correctly (hopefully fixed)
• Added - More Basinc Test Basic Programs in the release package

Basinc 1.75 (22.05.2019)

• Fixed - Parser fix (reported by: James Davis)

Basinc 1.74

• Added - Save Display Window as BMP
• Added - basin now is on github! https://github.com/ref-xx/basinc

Basinc 1.73

• Fixed - Undocumented fixes

Basinc 1.72

• Added: -dumptxt commandline parameter. Extracts and saves BASIC portion of a basinc compatible program (eg. BAS/SNA/TAP).
  • Usage: basinc <filename> -dumptxt
  • Example: basinc oregon.tap -dumptxt(will create oregon.tap_BASIC.txt in same folder)

Basinc 1.71

• Added: 4x,5x,6x font sizes for hi-dpi non-zoomed screens.
• Fixed: variables with 90ish numbers like a91, b95 weren't properly tokenized.

Basinc 1.720.11.2017

• Added new toolbar buttons
• Added toggle breakpoint navigation buttons (see view menu)
• Added auto backup feature. Basinc saves your work in the background every 3 minutes.
  • it keeps 10 copies going back up to 30 minutes in /autoback folder.
  • To turn this feature off, use: Options > Filing > Auto Backup
• Changed - Due to large changes in ini and bin files, basinc now requires basinC.bin and basinC.ini, but it still uses basin.chm as help file.

Basinc 1.7a

• Changed - Broken Undo/Redo behaviour. BETA - Save often to avoid data loss.

• Fixed - Right button popup menu context operators should detect *declared* variables correctly now
• Fixed - Green Ruler Mark at the bottom of the screen should work ok even when cursor in a string.
• Fixed - Drag&Drop files to main window works again.
• Fixed - Esc key no longer breaks the program if Basinc is not in focus
• Fixed - Token table wasn't printing first keywords correctly (eg. RND/SPECTRUM).
• Fixed - File dialogs won't stuck at search results anymore
• Fixed - Cosmetic fixes of profiling window
• Fixed - While using double and triple size fonts, find and replace was not showing the result in the editor
• Added - Shift+Clicking token table inserts byte code rather than token itself
• Added - Tape Browser now accept files via drag&drop
• Added - When in full speed emulation, a small arrow is shown at the bottom right corner of display window
• Added - Display window preset sizes: 300%,400%,600%
• Added - German Translation (Uwe Geiken)
• Added - External Utility menu item. This item sends basinc's memory snapshot to an external utility, such as an emulator.

Basinc V1.69 - 02.07.2014

Kompletne środowisko do "wpalcowywania" listingów w Basicu ZX Spectrum - oczywiście to nie wszystko, program potrafi znacznie więcej.

• Changed - Version information changed to more standard "version.revision" form.
• Changed - Autostart bas files is now disabled by default (options>files)
• Fixed - Broken Ulaplus behaviour (aowen)
• Fixed - Broken Sinclair stripes when using double size fonts (paddy)
• Fixed - Missing Border icons on Screen Paintbox (paddy)
• Fixed - Token Table Index (paddy)
• Fixed - String parsing bug. Eg. "LOAD STR$ n CODE" was parsed as "LOAD STR$ ncode" (paddy)
• Fixed - Ulaplus port read fails
• Added - "Export Tap..." option to File menu. (quickly saves basic as a tap file)
• Added - UlaPlus Palette Editor for editing colours in ULAplus registers. (see tools menu)
• Added - Indenting. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL - press F2 to enable/toggle. (see options menu)
• Added - New functionality test / usage bas programs (see Examples>BAS>Basinc folder)
• Added - Autostart, Save with autostart options are now retained between sessions.
• Added - Spanish language for main screen. (by Sergio Baldoví)

Known bugs

• Lower case 'e' is still not recognised as a variable by the code highligher (paddy)
• Indenting has some visual bugs, it's not recommended while coding. Might Confuse you.
• UNDO functionality may not work time to time

V16r3 - 23.04.2012

Maintainer - Arda Erdikmen

• Fixed - Double and triple size fonts should work properly
• Fixed - HighDPI desktop resizing fixes
• Fixed - Def FN's should work now
• Fixed - Renumber bug won't appear as parsing is now reversed when renumbering.
• Added - Kempston Mouse support (see options menu)
• Added - Kempston Mouse usage example BAS file (see examples folder)
• Added - LAST_K & KSTATE System variables support
• Added - Toggle fast mode at runtime with F1 (don't forget to set focus to display window)
• Added - Fast Resets (basin now opens and resets faster. See options)
• Added - Multilingual Gui (I need to translate all the menus though)
• Added - Most of 15.8 fixes, tools and utilities (too long to list here)
• Todo/wip - Memory Manager
• Todo/wip - UlaPlus HAM mode
• Todo/wip - More languages (add your language to languages.pas file and send it to me by below e-mail)

// 1.697 // Added - SimpleCon window warns user more if it's disabled in the options // Added - REM speed command. x is 1-50 (an integer equivalent to Mhz). It may not perform accordingly with commands which perform screen update. // 1.696 // Added - single instance mode // Added - Command line option: give filename to load // Added - Profiling window New (clears profiling results and starts new profiling) and Refresh (shows immediate results) button. // fixed - token table was printing wrong keywords (again). // fixed - Force Break (Undo) will go back to earlier state than intended (thus overwriting your program).