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====== Welcome to the XC=BASIC Wiki ====== | ====== Welcome to the XC=BASIC Wiki ====== | ||
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**XC=BASIC** is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Commodore-64 and **xcbasic64** is a cross-compiler that compiles **XC=BASIC** source code to 6502 machine code. | **XC=BASIC** is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Commodore-64 and **xcbasic64** is a cross-compiler that compiles **XC=BASIC** source code to 6502 machine code. | ||
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Some of the advantages of programming in **XC=BASIC** are: | Some of the advantages of programming in **XC=BASIC** are: | ||
* Cross development - use your favourite OS/ | * Cross development - use your favourite OS/ | ||
- | * Higher execution speed - no interpreter, | + | * Higher execution speed - no interpreter, |
* More available RAM - the program does not require the BASIC ROM to be present, which means the program code may span from $0801 to $CFFF - a total of 50K! | * More available RAM - the program does not require the BASIC ROM to be present, which means the program code may span from $0801 to $CFFF - a total of 50K! | ||
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===== Advanced features ===== | ===== Advanced features ===== | ||
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* global and local variables | * global and local variables | ||
* integer and floating point types, type casting | * integer and floating point types, type casting |