Several talented people have put together a wealth of information that should provide you with a lot of help to get you going. Here are some links to that info: http://www.basicx.com/codeexamples/examplecode.htm http://www.phanderson.com/basicx/index.html http://www.phanderson.com/ordering_1.html Peter Anderson also sells many items to further the craft, to support his efforts and to pay students that develop these projects. He's also a great guy to deal with as I'm sure the rest of these people are too! http://www.bxdocs.com/ http://home.comcast.net/~tomhandley/bx-24/bx-24.html http://www.kinzers.com/don/ http://tigoe.net/pcomp/index.shtml With these links and the manual you should have no trouble getting many projects off the ground! Hope this helps! William

--- In basicx@basi..., "basicxgumby" <basicxgumby@y...> wrote: After reading the manuals from > Netmedia, I am a bit confused with the programming style, eventhough > it is Basic. > It is a real shame > that there isn't more info provided by Netmedia. Any suggestions will > be appreciated. Well, I have looked at "Stamp" basic in attempts to translate that code to Basic-X. It is rather less intuitive than Basic-X is. As far as I can tell, Basic-X is about as plain-valilla as you can get. There are a bunch of hardware-specific commands, but usually the system library manual does a good job making it work. It seems that Netmedia is running its Basic-X division on a shoestring. It does not really seem that this is their major market/business, at least not these days. There are some pretty ggod app notes from Netmedia that helped me quite a bit. Plus there is this forum which is rather helpful too. -Tony

--- In basicx@basi..., "basicxgumby" <basicxgumby@y...> wrote: > Besides the book "BasicX and Robotics", does anyone out there know of > any guide/tutorial to help me get going with this. Are you more concerned about the difference in the two dialects of Basic or the differences in the adaptation to the microcontroller? If the former, you can probably pick up an inexpensive book on Visual Basic (VB6, not VB.net) and just ignore the parts dealing with the GUI, etc. BasicX is not 100% VB6 but it's fairly close. If you're already conversant in VB6 then the only thing left is to familiarize yourself with the System Libarary functions. That means reading the manual and trying things out to see how they really work. Don

Hi all, I have been programming in basic for years and been using Parallax BS2 for a year. I decided to move to the BX-24 as it is obviously a better performer for the money. After reading the manuals from Netmedia, I am a bit confused with the programming style, eventhough it is Basic. Besides the book "BasicX and Robotics", does anyone out there know of any guide/tutorial to help me get going with this. It is a real shame that there is'nt more info provided by Netmedia. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Jo