tinyBasic is just a developer's game, the development of a minimalist Basic interpreter for Palm by using iziBasic.

Tiny BASIC started out as a way to get a BASIC running in the minimum amount of memory space (~2 KBytes), because RAM used to be very expensive and home computers would only have a few KB of RAM back in the 1970's.

My Tiny BASIC dialect, that I just called "tinyBasic", is similar and loosely based on the Intel 8080 Tiny BASIC written by Li Chen Wang and appearing in Doctor Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia in the May 1976 issue.

tinyBasic was developed with the iziBasic compiler for Palm OS handheld devices. The source code has also been ported to PP & NaPP (for Palm) and Free Pascal (for PC).

The source code of tinyBasic is provided in the download file (please see instructions in the readme file).

Updated Description:

v1.2:

- recompiled this program with the latest iziBasic version 6.1 to avoid device freezes or soft resets on some devices

v1.1:

- minor update of iziBasic's source code to retrieve correctly values like -3 or .5 (before one had to write a=0-3 or a=0.5, when now a=-3 and a=.5 are valid entries)

- another minor update was to only accept integer values as line numbers

- ported the iziBasic source code to PP, NaPP and Free Pascal