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What does it do?
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Right now, not much of anything at all. It boots from a 1.44mB floppy disk, throws some text to the screen, and enters a primitive REPL (where you can do nothing but display a help message, HALT the machine, or RESET the machine).
Right now, not much of anything at all. It boots from a 1.44mB floppy disk, and enters into a BASIC interpreter, just like your favorite home computers of the 70s/80s!
![Image of Piquant v0.1](media/screenshot.png)
I think I'm going to expand the basic REPL into a BASIC interpreter, just like the classic machines of the 80s. "Operating System? Oh, you mean the BASIC ROM, right?" :)
Currently the BASIC only understands simple, 1-digit arithmetic expressions. But this will soon change; I intend to implement at least as many features as uBASIC, maybe QuickBASIC eventually.
How can I run it?
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