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	Locomotive BASIC programming language
		Locomotive Basic is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language used only on the Amstrad CPC (where it was built-in on ROM) and the Amstrad PCW (on which it is loaded from disc).
		Unlike the Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore 64 BASIC, Locomotive BASIC didn't rely on the keyboard having command shortcuts or specialized keys for choosing symbols or colors, save for the "?" abbreviation for the PRINT command and a few scarce and undocumented shortcuts, none too practical anyway: it was a 100% type-in language.
		Drawbacks of Locomotive basic included the lack of structured programming (like almost all other common languages of the era, it was line based), and its rather slow speed, especially when plotting graphics.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/locomotive_basic_programming_language.html (616 words)

	Locomotive BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Locomotive Basic is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language written by Locomotive Software used only on the Amstrad CPC (where it was built-in on ROM).
		It was the main ancestor of Mallard BASIC, the interpreter for CP/M supplied with the Amstrad PCW and later the Amstrad-designed and built ZX Spectrum +3.
		Unlike Sinclair BASIC or Commodore 64 BASIC, which had various keyboard command shortcuts or specialized keys for choosing symbols or colors, Locomotive BASIC keywords were typed in full and the interpreter parsed, recognized and tokenised them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locomotive_BASIC_programming_language (659 words)

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		In the locomotive, power is generated by the force of the steam under pressure.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exbrapri.html (5390 words)

	Locomotive BASIC programming language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Locomotive Basic is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language used only on the Amstrad CPC (where it was built-in on ROM) and the Amstrad PCW (on which it is loaded from disc).
		Unlike the Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore 64 BASIC, Locomotive BASIC didn't rely on the keyboard having command shortcuts or specialized keys for choosing symbols or colors, save for the "?" abbreviation for the PRINT command and a few scarce and undocumented shortcuts, none too practical anyway: it was a 100% type-in language.
		Drawbacks of Locomotive basic included the lack of structured programming (like almost all other common languages of the era, it was line based), and its rather slow speed, especially when plotting graphics.
	sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/locomotive_basic_programming_language (635 words)

	An introduction to programming the Amstrad CPC 464 664 6128 computer
		By the time the Amstrad came along, Basic was the default programming language on most home computers including the competing Acorn, Commodore and Sinclair machines.
		A public domain scene was built around enthusiasts writing programs to meet their needs, either because there wasn't anything specific enough on the market or because they relished the challenge of coding from scratch.
		Programming Basic enabled many Amstrad users to invent their own worlds on their home computers.
	www.sean.co.uk /books/amstrad/bforbasic.shtm (1079 words)

	Spectrum +3 CP/M Plus manual
		BASIC was originally designed many years ago as a programming language that was simple to learn, as an aid to teaching computer programming.
		BASIC is very versatile and can be used to perform most tasks involving manipulating numbers and text.
		Programs can perform an infinite range of tasks, from simple things such as totalling sequences of figures to complex tasks such as maintaining a personnel file, calculating payrolls or performing statistical analyses.
	www.worldofspectrum.org /Plus3CPMManual/basic_intro.html (1018 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		AmsDos was completely embedded in the Basic using so-called RSX commands starting with , but it could not format disks, you needed a special application for that.
		But when programming in assembly language, you had to use the 8080 instruction set which had different mnemonics than the Z80's.
		Locomotive BASIC was surprisingly fast at the time and had even software interrupts, with which it was possible to react to hardware interrupts that were passed to the BASIC interpreter.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=84 (457 words)

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		While the bizarre and brilliant locomotive ideas were being tried and discarded, the design of conservative, workaday engines was converging on a near-standard shape: that of the familiar, undecorated 4-8-4 that worked the rails until the end came.
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	comp.sys.amstrad.8bit FAQ v1.27 1 / 16 1/1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In fact it is not part of BASIC but if your application uses this add-on on the PCW, it can obstruct the proper working on another Basic language.
		Check a program up-front for the mentioned issues and decide whether it is worth your while to adopt it on a PC, to redesign it on a PC or to use a PCW emulator on the PC.
		A short BASIC listing (that, will be made available after release of the programs) can be typed in on the PCW and will allow files to be converted into beeps (call it morse) that can be received by the microphone and converted back into files again on the PC.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/amstrad8bit-faq (15066 words)

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	FD-DOC FreeDOS Documentation Project \| FAQ
		I see that there are basic compilers in the development category, but I see no plain old BASIC that matches the spec.
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		We moved all BASIC from BASE to DEVEL (was called LANG in the past) while ago, and we have no BASIC at all in the 1.0 or the post 1.0 TO-DO list.
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	John Rong(Yongjun)'s Website :: Home
		We developed our programs in the ASCII terminals that sent the tasks to be processed with the help of batch processing files to central processing system to finish computing and printing the results.
		I once developed a program using Basic language in Apple machine and it output a character-shape panda.
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	www.cs.ttu.edu /~rong (965 words)

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	www.blitzbasic.com /Community/posts.php?topic=65565 (3439 words)

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		Below is a fine example of STOS programming (okay, so not so fine, but it's all I could remember, C has corrupted me).
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	www.ngemu.com /forums/showthread.php?t=54053 (385 words)

	Octoate.de - The Amstrad CPC Range
		The CPC464 was the first model of the CPC computer range, launched by Amstrad in the UK, France and Germany and was designed to be a competitor to the Commodore C64.
		Later models of the CPC series were the CPC664 and the CPC6128 which both had an internal 3“ disc drive instead of the cassette deck.
		The 664 came with 64k RAM and the 6128 with 128k RAM and both had a newer version (with some bugfixes) of Locomotive Basic (v1.1).
	www.octoate.de /cms/content/view/14/31 (178 words)

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		This saves programs which don't require time critical hardware access from having to touch the underlying machine and provides a level of machine portability for those programs.
		It used Locomotive BASIC - a variant specifically written for the CPC hardware which as a result was faster, more comfortable and more powerful than the generic but common Microsoft BASIC used by the Commodore 64 and MSX amongst others.
		Although it was possible to obtain compilers for Locomotive BASIC, BCPL, C, Forth, and Pascal the majority of the CPC's software was written in native Z80a assembly language.
	www.cpcwiki.com /index.php/CPC_old_generation (1390 words)

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