Project Update October 2026 The current points of focus in the project are: Coming up with a text editor you can type into a Tiny BASIC interpreter by hand. Something around 200 to 300 lines of code, and allows, say, a couple of pages of text of free RAM, for the user to do serious work within […]

project update post. the project has been exploring BASIC for some time. BASIC is indeed a general purpose programming language. it can be used to create anything one can think of. it is possible to run BASIC on contemporary hardware, from desktops to micro-controllers. the original purpose […]

"Konilo is a small, pragmatic personal computing system written in Forth and running on a tiny virtual computer. A complete system consists of an ilo vm, an image file ("rom") with the Konilo system, and a set of blocks for storage of code and data. ilo provides a portable MISC computer with […]

given the ubiquity of the commodore 64, and its recent re-entering manufacturing, it kind of makes sense for me to support it with the people's permacomputer project. the hardware the project currently supports is the LILYGO TTGO VGA32, an ESP32 based board. it is considerably cheaper than a […]

from vidak of the project committee: *** Hi, Due to constant spam, I have closed all account creation without some sort of verification from myself or one of the admin/moderation team here. I am not going to open SMTP firewall ports on a container that is subject to spam, so all verification […]

"You may be old enough to remember the 1980s home computer boom. Your computer booted directly into BASIC, and that's what you learned to program with. That BASIC would have features like string handling and arrays. It would have a FOR loop structure for counting. And if you were very lucky, it […]

we have been thinking about Tiny BASIC proper, the one without arrays or FOR/NEXT, etc. perhaps the next step is to attempt to write 'serious' software using its limited command set. games would be reasonably easy, but text editors not so much, due to the lack of array variables.

The People's Permacomputer Project sponsors the Solarpunk BASIC Programming Archive. You can find the link to the archive in our project profile metadata. Looking through the logs, many people seem to enjoy the BASIC archive. Should you feel generous, think about following the project […]

new Dandelion BASIC devlog in this post we discuss where development is up to. we have successfully been able to encode the original TBX interpretive language program into a new format that will be easier to implement for the Arduino. the next step is getting the "execution engine" going […]

Dandelion BASIC devlog So I have managed to encode the Tiny BASIC Extended interpretive language program into a nice bytecode that makes sense to me, and will be easy to process. Currently that bytecode looks like: Byte 0, the instruction bitmask, helps with dispatch. Byte 1, 2, the 16 bit […]

big problems with Dandelion BASIC today. it turns out you cannot do mathematical symbol operations using .byte directive inside avr-gcc. so, macros like this: .equ ML_CALL, 0b11000000 .macro CALL label .byte ((hi8(\label)) | (ML_CALL)), lo8(\label) .endm cannot be done. ...which means the […]