[FEATURE REQUEST] Could you add the ability to import a Basic file written in pure ASCII mode?

[fmaida]

Could you add the ability to import a MSX Basic file written in pure ASCII mode?

I'd like to be able to do something like this:

printf "10 PRINT \"HELLO WORLD\"\r\n20 GOTO 10" > file.asc
basbinizer file.asc -r file.rom

Many thanks

[Colpocorto]

It is possible, but definitely not a trivial task, since it basically requires reimplementing the whole MSX-BASIC interpreter.

It will be considered for future versions.

As for now, the best workaround is to load the .ASC file on any MSX Machine, and save it as a tokenized file (SAVE"PROG.BAS" without the ",A" option). The resulting .BAS prog could be easily converted to .ROM with Basbinizer.

[fmaida]

It is possible, but definitely not a trivial task, since it basically requires reimplementing the whole MSX-BASIC interpreter.

It will be considered for future versions.

As for now, the best workaround is to load the .ASC file on any MSX Machine, and save it as a tokenized file (SAVE"PROG.BAS" without the ",A" option). The resulting .BAS prog could be easily converted to .ROM with Basbinizer.

I understand. At the moment I'm using your program in chain with https://github.com/farique1/basic-dignified to obtain the required result:

printf "{mainloop}\r\n\tPRINT \"HELLO WORLD\"\r\n\tGOTO {mainloop}" > input.bad
python badig.py input.bad output.bmx --tk_tokenize
basbinizer output.bmx -r output.rom

In this way, I can write a MSX Basic program on my modern computer without having to use line numbers (they can be replaced by labels). Then your program puts it into a ROM file. It's quite handy IMHO

[Colpocorto]

Wow, didn't know about basic-dignified. It looks very nice.
It's great you can use both programs in your pipeline simulntaneously. Open source software at its best!

Until I decided whether I add this feature in future versions or not, I will add to the README.md file some instructions recommending your approach.