Category:Kanji BASIC
Description
Kanji BASIC is a BASIC extension, most of its commands are actually useful only on Japanese machines that come with a big Kanji-ROM (128kB if JIS1, 256kB if JIS1+JIS2).
Kanji BASIC is available on
- the MSX2+ and MSX Turbo R computers
- the ASCII Nihongo MSX-DOS 2 cartridge
- the Sony HBI-J1 cartridge
Instructions
Kanji BASIC comes with 14 new instructions. The MSX-BASIC instruction PUT KANJI, available on all MSX2 and higher computers, can be seen as a related Kanji BASIC instruction.
Note: CALL can be replaced by the character underscore (_). A space is not required after this character. See CALL for more info.
| Instruction | Generation (*) | Related standard instruction |
|---|---|---|
| CALL AKCNV | MSX2+ | |
| CALL ANK | MSX2+ | |
| CALL CLS | MSX2+ | CLS |
| CALL JIS | MSX2+ | ASC() |
| CALL KACNV | MSX2+ | |
| CALL KANJI | MSX2+ | SCREEN |
| CALL KEXT | MSX2+ | |
| CALL KINSTR | MSX2+ | INSTR |
| CALL KLEN | MSX2+ | LEN |
| CALL KMID | MSX2+ | MID$() |
| CALL KNJ | MSX2+ | CHR$() |
| CALL KTYPE | MSX2+ | |
| CALL PALETTE | MSX2+ | COLOR= |
| CALL SJIS | MSX2+ | ASC() |
| PUT KANJI (1) | MSX2 |
(*) official MSX generation for this extension is MSX2+; however, the mentioned cartridges allow to use Kanji BASIC on MSX2 (1) related Kanji BASIC instruction
Pages in category "Kanji BASIC"
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