I see there is a NB-IoT module for m5Stack, however, it is my understanding that NB-IoT is exclusively Europe? Is there any plans for a Cat-M1 module in the near future?

@ajb2k3 I mean, isnt that exactly what the QWERTY FACES module would be good for?

@ajb2k3 It appears that www.esp8266.com, where the forum is located, is under moderator control and my inquiry about an ESP32BASIC is not being published.

@loboris I will study that closer. It looks like a very interesting tool. In and of itself, it looks pretty powerful.

I'm not really looking for tool to compile basic to C. I'm already relatively OK with Arduinio projects on the Stack.

What I am really looking for is something that would work in the M5GO platform as both a legacy idle curiosity and a neat way to teach interpretive programming to others. Using a M5Stack with BASIC and FACES would be like having a pocket Commodore 64. The final idea would be to develop and save programs right on the screen and SD card but then possiblely also upload BASIC programs into some kind of exchange like Tynker has.

Seems like a natural extension for the M5GO Project.

Having a complete handheld BASIC development system has always been a dream of mine since I was in 7th grade in the 1970s. A Tandy PC-1 temporarily fulfilled that dream, but the single line of 24 characters and 2K of program stack really didn't cut it for me :-)

I just did.
Unfortunately, there are similar questions on that board, languishing and unanswered from 2017 :-(

Has there been any project to convert the ESP8266 BASIC into ESP32 and specifcally the M5Stack? I think it would be pretty incredible to have a version of BASIC that operated like uPython and the M5Cloud or even better, using the standard screen and Faces keyboard. I know a lot of people frown on BASIC, but today's BASIC doesnt have to be the mess that many of us learned programming on. Its a much more modern implementation and the ESP8266 version is suprisingly rich in its support for ESP extras.

Is the Faces project a dead project?

None of the github examples for Faces compile. I just bought one off of amazon and noticed when compiling that I get "DDRC and PORTC not declared in this scope.

NONE of the variables in setup() are declared. As far as I can see with what limited experience I have, none of the examples follow standard "C" or Arduino standards.

How are these examples supposed to be compiled and is there another archive of examples where we can learn to master what looks like a wonderful, but unsupported tool?