Summary for those who don't know:
Family BASIC was a dialect of HuBASIC ported to the Famicom. I wonder if HuBASIC programs made for the Sharp MZ could work on Family BASIC. I know very little about programming or these things.
What does this have to do with the Famicom Disk System?
Well, a hacker did the most interesting and ported to the FDS. There is a Game Doctor (floppy disk based copier) port that runs on the FDS, but you have to use a GD for it. This runs on the FDS itself without one of those things involved. As the proud owner of a Famicom, an FDS RAM adapter, a FDS stick and a Family Computer Keyboard, I can confirm that it actually does work and you can save/load programs to it BUT you have to do a specific sequence explained in the Github to save/load. (With an FDS stick I was using the FDS stick utility to read/write disks using my PC as a host; you can flash completed games to it in .fds format when you're done.)
Luckily enough some people have already compiled it and you too can play around with it. Those more savvy than I am can probably concatenate the disk to be side A and side B of the same disk. Attached are both disks for whoever wants to mess around with it.
Family BASIC was a dialect of HuBASIC ported to the Famicom. I wonder if HuBASIC programs made for the Sharp MZ could work on Family BASIC. I know very little about programming or these things.
What does this have to do with the Famicom Disk System?
Well, a hacker did the most interesting and ported to the FDS. There is a Game Doctor (floppy disk based copier) port that runs on the FDS, but you have to use a GD for it. This runs on the FDS itself without one of those things involved. As the proud owner of a Famicom, an FDS RAM adapter, a FDS stick and a Family Computer Keyboard, I can confirm that it actually does work and you can save/load programs to it BUT you have to do a specific sequence explained in the Github to save/load. (With an FDS stick I was using the FDS stick utility to read/write disks using my PC as a host; you can flash completed games to it in .fds format when you're done.)
Luckily enough some people have already compiled it and you too can play around with it. Those more savvy than I am can probably concatenate the disk to be side A and side B of the same disk. Attached are both disks for whoever wants to mess around with it.
