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Anyone recommend a good basic interpreter for Windows? Or even one that would work in Dosbox with text and graphics modes?
by tonylemesmer 6y ago
Anyone recommend a good basic interpreter for Windows? Or even one that would work in Dosbox with text and graphics modes?
- EamonnMR 6y agoI have fond memories of Blitz Basic which still seems to be maintained: https://www.blitzcoder.org/forum/ https://www.blitzcoder.org/forum/
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoWindows ships with VBScript, it's available via WSH (Windows Scripting Host) and has access to any COM objects you might need. It isn't a great language but it will go a fair way.
- rainburg 6y agoPerhaps, QB64? https://www.qb64.org https://www.qb64.org There’s also a GUI toolkit with an interface designer being developed for it: https://www.qb64.org/inform/ https://www.qb64.org/inform/
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoI actually use QBasic in Dosbox. It works and you can find a ton of old tutorials and books. You can find the MSDos images you need on archive.org.
- tonylemesmer 6y agoQbasic and GWBasic/Basica are what I started on as a kid. Thanks!
- retrac 6y agoFreeBASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASIC is a modern, GPL'd compiler that implements nearly all of Microsoft QuickBASIC along with a bunch of extensions. Runs on *nix and Windows. QuickBASIC was a rather nice BASIC dialect for its era, and you can write well-structured and modular procedural code. Along with a bunch of 2450 GOTO 410 lines, if you really want.
- WorldMaker 6y agoSmall Basic was built to be a good teaching tool: http://www.smallbasic.com/default.aspx http://www.smallbasic.com/default.aspx