Basilica 0.11

Basilica is a very simple utility to assemble modules containing a BASIC library.

As such modules are loaded the contained library is linked into a list.

This list can linked to the INSTALLLIST argument in BASIC with a *command.

This means that only one set of libraries needs to be in memory for any number of BASIC programs and these do not have to allocate memory to accomodate libraries that are loaded with the LIBRARY statement.

It can be downloaded from http://kappa.me.uk/Modules/swBasilica011.zip

A bit of history:

Those of you with a very long memory might remember my Basil (BASIC Shared Installed Libraries) module, which faded from view not long after it was released. It was made 32-bit and had some extra feature added, but I have not touched it since 2004. While developing Basil I toyed around with single library modules and provided a crude framework for creating them, Basilica, but that was last touched in 1998.

I came across these files, and in the light of 20 years more experience, thought that it would be fun to have another go, and this is the result. Whether it has any practical use beyond my desktop is anyone’s guess. ;-)