ZX81 - Basic README

ZX81 BASIC syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.

Supports all reserved words from the ZX81 BASIC range.

Best results when also using a ZX81 font ;-)

Basic

Statements

AT,CLEAR,CLS,CONT,COPY,DIM,FAST,FOR,GOSUB,GOTO,IF,INPUT,
LET,LIST,LLIST,LOAD,LPRINT,NEW,NEXT,PAUSE,PLOT,POKE,PRINT,
RAND,REM,RETURN,RUN,SAVE,SCROLL,SLOW,STEP,STOP,TAB,THEN,TO,
UNPLOT

Functions

ABS,ACS,ASN,ATN,CHR,CODE,COS,EXP,INKEY,INT,LEN,LN,
PEEK,PI,RND,SGN,SIN,SQR,STR,TAN,TLS,USR,VAL

Operators

AND,NOT,OR

Installation

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

ext install zx81basic

Theme colors

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

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "textMateRules": [
                {
                    "scope": [
                    "keyword.control.zx81basic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#79f109",
                        "fontStyle": "bold"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "entity.name.function.zx81basic",
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#e98707"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                    "comment.line.zx81basic",
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#008000",
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "keyword.operator.logical.zx81basic"
                    ],
                    "settings":{
                        "foreground": "#8E8E8E",
                    }
                },
                
                
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "variable.name.zx81basic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#32bacc"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "constant.numeric.zx81basic"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#ffffff"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "scope": [
                        "string"
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#c2995c"
                    }
                }
                
        ]
    }

Acknowledgments

• This is just a port of the awesome ZX-Basic extension and Amstrad-Basic