PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC

Re:PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC by fritzy on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:59PM (#40948397)

There's similar projects like QB64 and L-Basic. I have to wonder if keeping language variants alive will be of historic significance hundreds of years from now. Will anyone care about early computing to this extent?

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Re:PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC by fuzztester on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:22PM (#40949063)

There are quite a few other BASICs. FreeBASIC, PureBASIC, etc.

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BASIC_programming_l...

and

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BASIC_interpreters

Some will be obsolete, of course.

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Re:PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC by rkagerer on Friday July 12, 2024 @07:13PM (#40950321)

And a really weird one, BASCOM-AVR. Used it extensively in my robot built for my fourth year engineering project. Nice thing is you could still use ASM interrupt handlers without a lot of hassle.

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Re:PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC by fuzztester on Friday July 12, 2024 @07:33PM (#40950427)

Plain BASCOM(.EXE) was the name of a BASIC compiler, IIRC, in DOS days, probably. Did not use it myself, but I think I remember a colleague using it.

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