Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho View Post
Yikes, I've never even heard of that. There might be some flavor of BASIC out there for it, but I doubt it's something people used very much. You should be searching for Newton apps if you're trying to figure out what it's good for.

Here's the thing: what sort of BASIC were you planning to use? Pretty much every system had its own dialect of BASIC with subtle variations in the syntax of many commands. If you're trying to type in programs from some of the old reference books of the day, you'll probably want something standard, like an Atari 800, maybe. The TRS-80 is not a bad idea either, I suppose, but you're very, very, very limited in what you can do with something like that.

Really, the second best choice – especially if you don't have any old books of BASIC programs – is to just use FreeBASIC or Chipmunk BASIC or any of the various other modern, friendly PC flavors of BASIC. The best choice would be to just forget about BASIC altogether and use a "proper" programming language like Python.
Well, i'm living in PAL region, and I still can't figure it out how to connect a NTSC console to my TV set, so I can't use microcomputers like Atari 800. I need to get a laptop. I'm not going to use this microcomputer for serious deals, just want to entertain myself. So I don't require a modern dialects of BASIC, yeah, I'll do that with help of the old reference books. Maybe i'll be using not only BASIC, maybe Pascal or FORTRAN, but that's not so important now. The deal is: if BASIC for eMate exists, i'll buy it, if not - TRS-80 will be my choice.