I made a template for the user's guide using my own graphics and style.  It looks pretty good I think so far.  I attached a sample of it.

Anyone else want to write an article?

That looks really cool.

BBC Basic is mostly aimed toward game dev. It is meant as an alternative to BASIC and ASM that is easier than ASM but faster than BASIC. Certain commands are slower but other stuff is much faster. I never used it much, though, but I know Builderboy did. Here are some games that were alerady made with it: http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/bbcbasic/

It's interpreted, btw. The good things I hear about it are that the language is not too hard to learn and is fast, but that the inline programming editor is a major hassle to use. Basically, you may be best at using the PC editor included, which is more user-friendly, than the on-calc one. I do not think the language is as fast as Axe Parser since BBC Basic is not compiled, but it's still quite fast. It's also finished, IIRC. This review pretty much sums it up. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/416/41608.html

For xLIB/Celtic, you can do a lot of stuff you could do in ASM, except much slower. Both are mainly aimed toward game development, but Celtic III can also be used for file management (or even basic shells). Both are ASM libs used to add new functions to BASIC programs.

the tutorial already assumes you know BASIC

^sounds like you already wrote a tutorial
Would you still like me to write a tutorial/sample program article like you asked before?

If, in the future, you need to create pdfs for more than just documents, there's some free pdf printers out there...meaning you "print a file" and it is saved to a pdf.  For instance, the one I use is called "Bullzip", and I can't even begin to tell you how reliable it is.

Quote from: Quigibo on April 18, 2010, 12:27:19 pm

the tutorial already assumes you know BASIC

^sounds like you already wrote a tutorial
Would you still like me to write a tutorial/sample program article like you asked before?

I was about to, but I haven't actually yet.  If you think you can finish it soon today, then go ahead, if not, I'll be able to handle it.

I never heard of that one. I always used OpenOffice PDF converter. However, in some cases, the image locations were altered or there were some missing ones. But again, when I tried it was a MS Word 97 doc opened in OOo 2.x then converted to PDF so it was at risk to screw up.

In the days where I still went to college we used a very reliable program to do this on Mac Os that used a "print to pdf" option but I totally forgot how it's called.

CutePDF does this very well