SAM-PC

Utility

Submitted by stripwax on Sunday, August 12, 2018 - 22:49.

Download

sam-pc.zip

Release Year

1997

Copyrights

Public Domain

Author

Dave Hooper

Description

An incredibly-badly-named utility for converting a ('binary') SAM BASIC file into a readable ASCII .TXT file. Written in QBASIC - so requires a QBASIC interpreter. (Back in 1997 , they were everywhere. What happened?!)

ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/tools/pc/sam-pc.zip

Instructions

(from the included text file)

+----------------------------+
: SAM-PC text file convertor :
+----------------------------+

(c) 1997 no-brain@mindless.com

Ok, so it's crappy and cheesy and written in QBASIC, but so what? It works don't it?

Load into a PC, and edit the program to give the correct input and output filenames:

*  the INPUT filename is a SAMBASIC file stored on the PC (use KEDISK or something to get it on there).

*  the OUTPUT filename is just an ASCII text file that the sambasic code will be written out to.

Doesn't handle MasterBASIC. Well, it might. Dunno really, never tried it.

Feel free to bugger around with it, I don't care.