I second FreeBASIC. Strong gaming community, modernized a lot of QBASIC. It's good. My first QBASIC/FreeBASIC program I've managed to write some 15 years ago:

I second FreeBASIC. Strong gaming community, modernized a lot of QBASIC. It's good. My first QBASIC/FreeBASIC program I've managed to write some 15 years ago: https://bitbucket.org/tarballs_are_good/nibbles-and-bits/raw/644cf9e2eaef78b86829fb23a208c848e994a581/QBASIC/MANDEL.bas https://bitbucket.org/tarballs_are_good/nibbles-and-bits/raw...