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I looked up BASIC for mac, and lo and behold, there seems to be only one, by Nikolay Denislamov that is useful, and it's limit-ware (program size) and $12 to go
by k310 3y ago
I looked up BASIC for mac, and lo and behold, there seems to be only one, by Nikolay Denislamov that is useful, and it's limit-ware (program size) and $12 to go "premium". Not even GAMBAS.
I found Basic! and techBASIC on the ipad, and they might run on Apple Silicon.
The latter is not in the appstore these days.(It seems to have morphed into something else)
(quick download) Basic! runs on Ventura/MacMiniM2. How well is TBD.
I'll set up a linux system for fun as soon as I get some things sorted out.
Not promoting any of these. My first BASIC was Palo Alto Tiny Basic, typed in or read in on paper tape (I had to set up the reader and program first) on the IMSAI.
For linux, I am pretty sure that GAMBAS will run. I have not researched others.
Happy Interpreting!
- thom 3y agoI think GAMBAS is excellent, probably the friendliest environment I've found for teaching kids, certainly the closest the the feeling of something like QBasic or early Visual Basic. Decent language, good IDE with built in docs, creating UIs is a breeze. Good stuff.
- behringer 3y agoThere's a few Mac based BASICs but I'm not sure how they fare now with the new CPUs. Come share your findings with us in the discord BASIC community if you use discord: https://discord.gg/rWaFeCca3P https://discord.gg/rWaFeCca3P
- tomcam 3y agoYou probably know this but Apple created a MacBasic early on, around 1985. It was very fun, but never officially released. Sadly Microsoft quashed it.
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- ikari_pl 3y agoBBC BASIC with it's SDL IDE work ok on a mac too!
- jmmv 3y agoWhat features are you looking for and what kind of “Mac support”? EndBASIC runs natively on macOS :)
- sigzero 3y agoXojo (formally RealBASIC) might be what you want if you just want to learn. It runs on Mac, Windows, and I think Linux and allows you to target the web, iOS, and Android.