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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by klelatti on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#29826425)
The Colour Maximite is a modern computer that boots into its own specially written Basic. [1]

I think using a Cortex M7 with its simpler memory model keeps it closer to the spirit of the 8 bit machines than is possible with a Cortex A series.

[1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html

Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by boznz on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:00PM (#29828180)
Agree, probably the easiest out there, a port for a RPi is well overdue.
Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by jameskeim on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:42PM (#29842971)
MMBasic is the actual basic used on the CMM2. It is really a great system with some advanced features for BASIC. https://www.mmbasic.com/downloads.html

I do recall that there is a port of MMBasic for the Raspberry Pi floating around somewhere. I think it is on the forums at https://thebackshed.com but I couldn't tell you how to find it. I do think it runs under Linux and not on bare metal but I might be mis-remembering.

Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by jameskeim on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:59PM (#29843214)
Actually dug through because I only had a vague recollection. So the Pi-Cromite version I remembered has been discontinued. However, there is a MMBasic for Linux that cribs some code from that project. And, it can be compiled for the Raspberry Pi. I might venture to suggest that this might be one of the most fully featured Basic implementations that can found for the Raspberry Pi. Link here: https://github.com/thwill1000/MMB4L