MSX-BASIC compilers for MSX - overview?

Ascended (19468)

16-06-2018, 21:51

I just discovered there exist the following MSX-BASIC compilers:
- BASIC Compiler for MSX 64k by Soft West: http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/soft-west/basic-compil...
- BASIC Compiler by Heart Soft: http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/heart-soft/basic-compi...

Next to the ones I already knew:
- MCBC (by Adriaan van Doorn)
- Mozart BASIC (not in Generation MSX!) See https://www.msx.org/forum/development/msx-development/questi... Apparently by MSX Club Gouda? Or at least they seem to have distributed it.

And this one I probably knew but forgot about:
- SOLiD VBasic, version 2.7 (by Egor Voznessenski) see https://www.msx.org/downloads/solid-vbasic

Who has experience with the top 2? Are they of any use?

Which ones of these are good anyway?

As far as I know, here in the NL, people only used Basic Kun (which does not do a 'real' compilation to a destination file) and MCBC. So I have no idea how good/useful the others are. Please share your experiences!

By Grauw

Ascended (10768)

17-06-2018, 01:14

Despite not saving to disk, Basic-kun still belongs in that list imo…

I myself only ever used Basic-kun and MCBC (in a very distant past, and MCBC only once or twice).

By PingPong

Enlighted (4138)

17-06-2018, 12:44

Manuel wrote:

And this one I probably knew but forgot about:
- SOLiD VBasic, version 2.7 (by Egor Voznessenski) see https://www.msx.org/downloads/solid-vbasic

Who has experience with the top 2? Are they of any use?

Which ones of these are good anyway?

i'm surprised of the availibility of all those compilers. Are there disk images around the internet?. I like to test all compilers to get a impression of how they are good.
As for majority i've only heard of xbasic. and effectively the big drawback is the dependence with the basic interpreter.
however xbasic do a very good job in boosting the speed and the generated code is fast enough to be comparable with 'msx-C' .
How those others compilers do the job?

By msxholder

Champion (399)

17-06-2018, 16:51

BASIC Compiler for MSX 64k by Soft West.
I know only the Japanese version and it is on cassete.