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   Shaun Bebbington to Janne Johansson   
   Re: BASIC 7.0   
   05 Jun 18 06:00:25   
   
   On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:54:42 UTC+1, Janne Johansson  wrote:   
   > On 2018-06-04 22:25, Shaun Bebbington : Fred wrote:   
   >   
   > > So it's not possible to port BASIC 7 to the C64 somehow?   
   >   
   > When you have a hard time getting the answer you like, perhaps you   
   > should take a step back and describe your ultimate goal.   
   >   
   > People here tend to try to see beyond the obvious "if you cant find it,   
   > its not there and noone did it", but it's hard to imagine you want the   
   > super obvious answer, or a Yes/No to the above question since that will   
   > just spur further questions when that wasn't the actual end goal.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > There is a BASIC on the C64, there are other BASICs with improvements,   
   > there is BASIC 7 for non-C64 platforms which you can emulate, and you   
   > can dive in to the BASIC 7 code and do the grunt work and port it   
   > yourself, or you could actually state what your end goal is to getting   
   > that specific dialect onto a C64 apart from just seeing BASIC 7 on a   
   > C64, since that smells like a solution to something you haven't   
   > disclosed yet, which is why you get so many disparate answers.   
      
   Yes.   
      
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