I've got PDP-8 BASIC to work in a PDP-8 emulator running on the same Tiny2040. It's difficult to time as running the code first starts the tokenizer, which takes some time, but the actual execution takes about 90 seconds. (1/2)

April 01, 2026 - 19:53 UTC

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Due to this ancient BASIC's peculiarities, I needed to amend the code slightly. IF statements can only result in a GOTO, LET statements are mandatory, variable names can only either be a single letter, or a letter followed by a number, and the code must end in an END statement.
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The emulator was the one mentioned here - getting it to build using current tools was a challenge.

groups.google.com/g/pidp-8/c/r1a_KFR5VEQ?pli=1
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