I just released a new version of BASIC Anywhere Machine (aka BAM) which has an implementation of the LPRINT statement.
The statement takes a string expression and provides it for download to a file via the web browser’s standard “Save File As” dialog.
It is a way of getting text output out of a BASIC program.
Which got me thinking…
It is easy to have a BASIC program include, at runtime, any content from TiddlyWiki. The “preprocessor” in BAM views TiddlyWiki syntax as “meta commands” that should render as something that BASIC recognizes as valid BASIC syntax. Like “DATA” statements used by “READ” statements, or values assigned to BASIC variables, or values returned by BASIC functions.
Although it is easy to create a TiddlyWiki export option (once one has figured out, short of documentation, how out-of-the-box TW exports work), I think a BASIC program in TiddlyWiki makes for a viable alternative.
Something I’ll be chewing on and maybe proving with code in a future video.
For now, you might be able to imagine the potential via this introduction to LPRINT in BASIC Anywhere Machine:
