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Microsoft, please release QuickBasic to the world

• scruffyherder 8y ago
  I'd even be happy with 8080 CP/M MS Basic...
• themodelplumber 8y ago
  That'd be really cool. Upgrades to QuickBasic would come out pretty fast I'll bet. In case it doesn't happen, I have to say FreeBASIC is pretty nice...I was happy with how easy it was to make a little simulation game and compile it. Also I haven't tried it out for very long, but Gambas seems pretty neat and does some kind of web app creation thing now too.
  • rnd0 8y ago
    FreeBASIC is pretty cool, qb64 isn't bad either -and might be a shade closer to the original quickbasic? (I'm not sure as I don't know enough QB arcana to test). https://www.qb64.org/ https://www.qb64.org/
    • codetrotter 8y ago
      There’s also a guy from Finland that wrote his own QuickBasic compiler and is doing some pretty cool videos on YouTube under the handle Bisqwit, with some of the videos talking about things he wrote or prototyped using QuickBasic. https://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/qbc.html https://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/qbc.html https://youtu.be/TUa5HJUebEA https://youtu.be/TUa5HJUebEA https://youtu.be/8x9Ya4izFaE https://youtu.be/8x9Ya4izFaE https://youtu.be/ZwcFV3KrnQA https://youtu.be/ZwcFV3KrnQA https://youtu.be/5Da6ZyQJjE0 https://youtu.be/5Da6ZyQJjE0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL41889A5E9CBD68CF https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL41889A5E9CBD68CF
• tdeck 8y ago
  I think the source is floating around somewhere. At least, back when I wrote QuickBasic it seemed like some people in the community had copies.
  • omneity 8y ago
    Are you the original author of QuickBasic?
    • pimlottc 8y ago
      I think they mean they wrote code in QuickBasic.
      • tdeck 8y ago
        Yes that's indeed what I meant.