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Name: Outlander
Date: October 29, 2003 at 09:13:31 Pacific
OS: windows 98se
CPU/Ram: pentium
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Thanks for the answers on my other basic question.

Is there a basc compiler out there? What I mean is other than VB and interpreters for basic, is there a compiler for the basic language that can produce decent results and output to .exe, or .com?

I have tried using C/C++ but it makes no sense to me, it's just not my style of logic. I have gotten some use out of assembly but it is taking me far to long to learn. So why not basic?



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Name: Outlander
Date: October 29, 2003 at 09:27:35 Pacific
Reply:

EDIT: Just found the RealBASIC site,and it looks pretty simple, but I'm looking for more of a command line only editor, and by the numbers, 000, 010, 020, at least thats how I remember basic.


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Response Number 2
Name: Ronin1
Date: October 29, 2003 at 11:48:33 Pacific
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c/cpp is far more powerful than old basic compilers, but try searching the web for turbo basic from Borland. I don't believe they have released it to the public domain, so keep that in mind.

A few others that I have not tried.MicroBasic MoonRock

HTH


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Response Number 3
Name: JasonR
Date: October 29, 2003 at 11:48:41 Pacific
Reply:

You could alwyas try to dig up a copy of QuickBasic
4.5


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Response Number 4
Name: anonproxy
Date: October 29, 2003 at 17:20:50 Pacific
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I stole this list (slightly edited) from Wikipedia (to save some load on their servers). I bet an emulator exists for every single one of these. Some examples of early line-formated BASIC include Altair, Dartmouth, and Applesoft. Other than that fire some through Google and find what you like.

· Altair BASIC
· AMOS
· Applesoft BASIC
· ASIC
· Atari BASIC
· BASIC09
· BASICA
· BASIC-E
· BBC BASIC
· Blitz Basic
· Bywater BASIC
· CBASIC
· Commodore BASIC
· Dartmouth BASIC
· Ethos Basic
· FutureBASIC
· GFA BASIC
· GW-BASIC
· IBasic
· Integer BASIC
· Liberty BASIC
· Locomotive BASIC
· Mallard BASIC
· MBASIC
· MSX BASIC
· PowerBASIC
· PureBasic
· QBASIC
· Quick Basic
· Revelation Basic
· ROM BASIC
· SAM BASIC
· ScriptBasic
· Sinclair BASIC
· SmallBASIC
· STOS
· TI BASIC
· TI Extended BASIC
· Tiny BASIC
· True BASIC
· Turbo BASIC
· XBasic
· YaBasic



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Response Number 5
Name: egkenny
Date: October 29, 2003 at 22:52:58 Pacific
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You can get QuickBasic 4.5 at
http://www.qbcafe.net

That site also has tutorials on QuickBasic.

QuickBasic 4.5 and 7.1 are are extented versions of QBasic 1.1 that used to come with DOS. QBasic 1.1 only has a basic interpretor.
QuickBasic 4.5 and 7.1 can also produce ".exe" files.


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