| ▲ | WalterBright 8 hours ago | |
> a new BASIC interpreter for the 1983 Mattel ECS add-on for Intellivision Fun fact: Hal Finney (yes, that Hal) wrote a BASIC interpreter for the Intellivision back in 1978 or so in a weekend. It was 2K of code. Mattel shipped it on a cartridge. ROM space was so tight, the only error message it produced was: | ||
| ▲ | jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That's hilarious. I wonder how many corners he cut on that. Is there a disassembly floating around somewhere? | ||
| ▲ | bitwize 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The Level I BASIC for the TRS-80 (which only shipped with 4 KiB of memory originally) had three error messages: WHAT? (syntax errors and the like); HOW? (illegal operations like divide by zero); and SORRY (out of memory). BootOS, the 512-byte OS written by Oscar Toledo (author of this article), also has a single error message, "Oops". | ||