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What's News in the PlayBasic world ? - Find out here.
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PlayBasic V1.65C Beta 39 - It LIVES
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By: Kevin Picone Added: July 17th, 2018
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Category: All,Update,Upgrade,Beta,Blog
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PlayBasic V1.65C Beta 39 - It LIVES
Just wanted to say that this morning the new build process finally sprang to life, after a number of trouble shooting sessions. This means that the current build includes the ironed out new APP format (localized) and it's new startup sequence. Long story short, this mean the runtime can be built into the release and debug editions and thus exe's can be built, but they work.
There's still some missing things from the APP format such as a replacement of the initial properties, which were a binary hunk in the original byte code, but could be replaced with either a text version or default startup function appended to the user code. Something like the latter will need to done at some point, but I'm in no rush with that.
Now what ? Well, it means we head into a clean up phase in order to build a release build from the V1.65C code bases, stuff like cleaning out legacy code & debug code from the runtimes. It'll need some testing in the wild that's for sure and there's some compiler features that are not present in v1.65 at all, but it's working and that's all I care about today...Tomorrow is another day!
Have fun !
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PlayBasic V1.65C BETA #20 (29th Dec,2017)
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By: Kevin Picone Added: December 29th, 2017
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Category: All,Retail,Beta,Update,Upgrade
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PlayBasic V1.65C BETA #20 (Retail Compiler Only Beta) - (Avail for Registered Users ONLY) (29th Dec,2017)
V1.65C Beta #20 virtually concludes the V1.65 clean up. In this build we are running on the new VM only. Which means all new instruction set and all new inner workings of PlayBasic... In this last build we're reconnected the Vm with the legayc debugger, which was previously rigidly hooked to the legacy VM making it break in later builds. In this version is almost back to normal, I say almost as the old interfaces are still there and there many be some routines still using them, but I'll tackle that in the clean up when building a release version in the new year.
The new runtime brings us more number crunching performance, standard instruction set and is now separate from most of the command sets (some are built into the VM.. like strings or array commands) the generally command sets could be swapped without needing to constantly update the runtime. There's some features of V1.64P that are NOT in the new VM, which are mainly some of the compiler optimizations that it would make to user byte code, one that comes to mind is the serialization of the Type / Structure accesses.. Which can give a massive performance benefit in code that focuses it's accessed on one structure of data.. I'm going to include this in V1.65, but wanted to get it working first.. then we can add some of my list of tricks 
Anyway, have fun.. there's bound to be some DEBUG messages etc in this.. but it's the future !
See Work In Progress Thread for downloads and more information.
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