Family Basic Tapes and Misc

[P]

The memory map is indeed different in V3 from earlier variants (user RAM starts at &H703F in regular Famibe and at &H6000 in V3), so generally programs that uses commands like POKE, PEEK and CLEAR and targets the cartridge memory space will not be cross-compatible to V3 or vice versa. All commands should otherwise work the same way however, unless I forgot something.

I thought you said it works in v2.1 but not in earlier versions, so I was wandering why that was the case, since they all share the same memory map and the differences from 1.0 and 2.0 are quite small.

The Family Basic memory map is on page 104 in the scanned manual V3 memory map is on page 126 in the V3 manual (not sure if the scans are still uploaded though and my translation doesn't have addresses written out unfortunately as it's assuming you have the Japanese scans).





What the heck I'll just post it here:

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6000
     User (RAM)
6FFF
--------------------------------------------------
7000
     Unused region
7FFF
--------------------------------------------------
8000
     BASIC Interpreter
CFFF
--------------------------------------------------
D000
     BG Screen (used for Mario World)
D3FF
--------------------------------------------------
D400
     GAME 0
DBFD
--------------------------------------------------
DBFE
     GAME 1
E681
--------------------------------------------------
E682
     GAME 2
F307
--------------------------------------------------
F308
     GAME 3
FFF9
--------------------------------------------------
FFFA
     Used by system
FFFF
--------------------------------------------------

The Famicom's address mapping isn't included like in the original Famibe manual, but I'm sure you know it already (for anyone reading this, it can be found here).

[UglyJoe]

I've definitely run into a type-in that used CLEAR and only worked 2.x and not in 3.0.  Pretty sure it was "Autoran" from マイコンBASIC 1990-05.

[P]

Yeah I also remember I had to port some programs to V3 by changing raw addresses.

[ozidual]

I added some more links to main post for scans of Family Basic Books completing most of my list and all I have collected.  I also added an "other" section for books that are Family Basic related but may not have full programs.  This should be the last of the book scans.

There are still plenty of programs to type up, and if you are interested, check out Gaming Alexandria's Typing Task Force (here) where we type up Family Basic games and so many others.  We're always happy to help others learn to type in these games and to upload them for everyone to use.

While the books are finished, I'm still working on magazines.  The last Micom Basic issue with Family Basic games has been uploaded.  They printed Family Basic games from 1984/8 to 1996/4.  There are many other magazines like Program Pochette and Beep magazine that have been scanned in and uploaded in the past year or two.  If you are interested in any of those, check out Archive.org. 

Currently I'm tracking down some other magazines with Family Basic code that I hope to post later once I've collected complete sets (they're rare and it's cheaper that way).  I'll make sure they eventually get uploaded no matter what.  So even though the books from my original list have been collected and uploaded (except Funny Game Daisakusen which we have the tape for), there's still more to come.