BasinC and Basin Credits

BasinC is a fork started and maintained by Arda Erdikmen, based on the Basin R14 source code. Its primary goal is to eliminate known bugs in Basin and adapt it to modern display systems. BasinC includes nearly a hundred bug fixes made and tens of new functionalities added on Basin.

BasinC is actually a word play on Basic and Sinclair, creating the real name "Basınç" (that's why the last letter is uppercase, it's a "Ç"), meaning "Pressure" in Turkish. Just like BASin itself a wordplay on same words.

BASin was written by Paul Dunn, using Borland Delphi 5. The help files were written by Paul E Collins and Paul Dunn, with contributions from Andrew Owen, and were compiled into Microsoft HTML Help format by Paul E Collins.

BASin would not have been possible without the invaluable help of all those who reported bugs, suggested features, and assisted with the coding. The author would especially like to thank the SPIN team (Mark Boyd, Woody, and Damien Guard) for their help and encouragement - notably Mark Boyd's contributions to the user interface and assembler, Woody's help with the main emulation core, and Damien's help with the user interface - and for creating such fantastic fonts for the editor to use.

Both Damien Guard and Paul Van Der Laan provided the majority of the example font files that ship with BASin.

Geoff Wearmouth, who remains something of a god in the Spectrum BASIC community, provided an excellent disassembly of the Spectrum ROM, without which this project would not have been possible, and a complete list of errata for the original Spectrum manual.

Finally, a big vote of thanks goes to Amstrad for allowing the free distribution of the Sinclair ROM images and the modification of the orange manual for use in BASin. The keyword reference is taken from the original Sinclair Spectrum+ manual, but unfortunately the owners of this book cannot be traced - Amstrad claim not to own it, neither do the publisher, Dorling Kindersley. The author passed away a short time ago. If anyone objects to this use of the manual, then please get in touch.