AMSTRAD CPC - Basic README

LOCOMOTIVE SOFTWARE AMSTRAD CPC BASIC syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.

Supports all reserved words from the AMSTRAD CPC Locomotive BASIC range.

Basic

Statements

AFTER, AUTO, BORDER, BREAK, CALL, CAT, CHAIN MERGE, CHAIN, CLEAR, CLG, 
CLOSEIN, CLOSEOUT, CLS, CONT, DATA, DEF FN, DEFINT, DEFSTR, DEFREAL, DEG, 
DELETE, DI, DIM, DRAW, DRAWR, EDIT, EI, ELSE, END, ENT, ENV, ERASE, ERROR, 
EVERY, FOR, GOSUB, GOTO, IF, INK, INPUT, KEY DEF, KEY, LET, LINE INPUT, LIST, 
LOAD, LOCATE, MEMORY, MERGE, MODE, MOVE, MOVER, NEW, NEXT, ON, OUT, OPENIN, 
OPENOUT, ORIGIN, PAPER, PEN, PLOT, PLOTR, POKE, PRINT, SPC, TAB, USING, RAD, 
RANDOMIZE, READ, RELEASE, RENUM, RESTORE, RESUME, RETURN, RUN, SAVE, SOUND, 
STEP, SPEED, SYMBOL, SWAP, TAG, TAGOFF, TRON, TROFF, THEN, TO, STEP, STOP, 
UNT, WAIT, WEND, WHILE, WIDTH, WINDOW, WRITE, ZONE

Functions

ABS, ASC, ATN, BIN, CHR$, CINT, CREAL, COS, EOF, ERR, ERL, EXP, FIX, FRE, 
HIMEM, INKEY, INKEY, INP, INTRS, INT, JOY, LEFT, LEN, LOG10, LOG, LOWER, MIN, 
MAX, MID, PEEK, PI, POS, REMAIN, RIGHT, RND, ROUND, SIN, SQ, SQR, STR$, STRING$, 
SGN, TAN, TEST, TESTR, TIME, UPPER, VAL, XPOS, YPOS

Operators

AND, NOT, OR, XOR, MOD

Installation

Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following commnand, and press Enter.

ext install amstradbasic

Theme colors

To change the colors to your liking, just edit settings.json global file and add:

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "textMateRules": [
                {
                    "scope": [
                    "keyword.control.amstradbasic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#79f109",
                        "fontStyle": "bold"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "entity.name.function.amstradbasic",
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#e98707"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                    "comment.line.amstradbasic",
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#008000",
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "keyword.operator.logical.amstradbasic"
                    ],
                    "settings":{
                        "foreground": "#8E8E8E",
                    }
                },
                
                
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "variable.name.amstradbasic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#32bacc"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "constant.numeric.amstradbasic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#ffffff"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "string"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#c2995c"
                    }
                }
                
        ]
    }

Acknowledgments

• This is just a port of the awesome ZX-Basic extension
• The image Locomotive_BASIC_amstrad_cpc was taken from Wikipedia and is released under Public Domain License