{"id":773,"date":"2020-05-02T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/?p=773"},"modified":"2020-05-02T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:17:01","slug":"lander-in-vax-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/2020\/05\/02\/lander-in-vax-basic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lander in VAX Basic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, just a quick update, I haven&#8217;t forgotten about RetroChallenge! I remembered that the VAX version of BASIC includes graphics support via the GKS library and thought I might be able to make use of that to code up a graphical version of my BBC BASIC Lander. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VAX BASIC is quite different from BBC BASIC, and I have been keen to make the most of the structured elements of the language. As it stands I currently have a single source file that needs splitting into separate source files, each one containing a sub-routine. I have encapsulated the global variables into two records: GameState and LanderState. I&#8217;m just trying to figure out how to share the RECORD definition between sub-modules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please bear with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just a quick update, I haven&#8217;t forgotten about RetroChallenge! I remembered that the VAX version of BASIC includes graphics support via the GKS library and thought I might be able to make use of that to code up a graphical version of my BBC BASIC Lander. VAX BASIC is quite different from BBC BASIC, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/2020\/05\/02\/lander-in-vax-basic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Lander in VAX Basic&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Lander in VAX Basic - making a start","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-rc2020-04"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73JhD-ct","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/rc2012sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}