BASIC 8

BASIC 8 (or BASIC 8.0) – "The Enhanced Graphics System For The C128" – was an American-designed graphics system developed by Walrusoft of <a href="/facts/Gainesville,_Florida/zL3WUbEG">Gainesville, Florida</a> and published in 1986 by Patech Software of <a href="/facts/Somerset,_New_Jersey/LyNE9EMu">Somerset, New Jersey</a>. The system was an <a href="/facts/BASIC_extension/PAonUtXo">extension</a> of <a href="/facts/Commodore_International/SlfXKbCN">Commodore</a>'s <a href="/facts/Commodore_BASIC/wYrzVk3f">BASIC 7.0</a> for the <a href="/facts/Commodore_128/vKlttwT1">Commodore 128</a> computer. BASIC 8.0 provided commands lacking in BASIC 7.0 to generate (color) <a href="/facts/2D_computer_graphics/j6dBxDpX">graphics</a> in the C128's high-resolution 80-column mode (640×200 <a href="/facts/Pixel/UzwBvXBV">pixels</a>) for <a href="/facts/RGB/3Be0zwCj">RGB</a> monitors.
The BASIC 8 package was developed by Walrusoft's Louis Wallace and David Darus, with contributions from Ken French (<a href="/facts/Printer_driver/SSA9Lrre">printer drivers</a>) and indirectly from Richard Rylander (who allowed his 3D solids commands for the <a href="/facts/Commodore_64/3TPcKDbb">Commodore 64</a>, originally published in <a href="/facts/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal/6Qov1hUK">Dr. Dobb's Journal</a>, to be converted to the C128's hi-res mode).

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