[V9990] Q&A Official Thread

I often considered to give it a try, as there is supposed to be a powerful form of BASIC to command it? Still, I never crossed the barrier, if you know what I mean. I think that a nice tutorial would inspire people to try something with it. Maybe such a thing already exists and I missed it?

Yes JohnHassink, the powerful form of Basic is called Powerbasic (ironically) and right now is only useful on turbo-R since the msx2 version is not stable.

You can find the powerbasic files here:

http://www.msx.ch/sunformsx/

You can see a description of the commands here:

http://msxbanzai.tni.nl/v9990/powerbasic.html

You can find technical documentation here:

http://www.faq.msxnet.org/gfx9000.html

I am using this video as a tutorial to learn powerbasic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyfkCnyQXg

Unfortunatelly, I have to copy the code from the video itself since I do not have the demo itself.
I see Manuel was the one who posted this video, so perhaps manuel has the demo and can share it with us?

You are welcome

By the way, I just discovered 10 minutes ago, that gbasic (another gfx9000 basic, but without turbo basic (AKA xbasic or basic kun), so it is extremelly slow, but msx2 compatible) can coexist with the regular version of turbobasic!!
Offcourse regular turbobasic cannot handle the gfx9000 sintaxis (or anything gfx9000 related) but this means that we can handle the main gfx9000 operations easily outside of the turboblock, and we can handle the graphic operations within the turbo block using vdp commands, out, vpoke...
Now we have to find what set of vdp, out and vpoke to use to do the regular graphic operations we want to use inside a turbo block: copy, put sprite, set scroll, set page.

With only this 4 instructions we can start working big time, so things are looking better!

I did not try until a copule of hours ago. I did not know those 2 can coexist together.

After this, I offcourse attempted to load xbasic gfx9000 version (just the xbasic.bin, without the other 2 files) but the computer resets, probably because that xbasic is designed to be loaded just the way it is used in the LDR file attached, but that way only works on Turbo-r.
I wonder if it would be too difficult to modify that gfx9000 xbasic so it can be loaded as the regular xbasic?
This way, we could have a gfx9000 xbasic within gbasic. Perfect for z80!