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True BASIC (Developers)

posted by bocke, 25.05.2025, 09:34

> > TrueBasic is available here. Not
> > free or open source, but it might be of interest to someone.
>
> I was interested enough to click the link. While
> browsing, I noticed the MSDOS version and thought
> about MSDOS 4.0 and whether it would run on that
> and be useful. I then remembered that I am the
> "official maintainer" of BWBASIC, and that maybe
> I should build an MSDOS executable. I then
> remembered that HX is available for MSDOS 4.0 and
> so I can run Windows executables and I already
> have a Windows executable. I then remembered that
> I included the PDOS/386 executables as part of the
> Freewindows distribution, so maybe bwbasic was
> already there. I then tried it. It gave an error.
> Fixed that error. And it did work, but wouldn't
> accept input. After a bit of confusion, I found
> an unrelated bug, and fixed that. I uploaded an
> updated freewin2.zip to pdos.org with a working
> bwbasic.

I didn't work much with BWBASIC, as I didn't write a line of BASIC since the 90s. But it should be much more useful. And is open source. :)

So, good job.

Complete thread:

• True BASIC - bocke, 24.05.2025, 17:56 (Developers)
  • True BASIC - Rugxulo, 24.05.2025, 23:49
    • True BASIC - bocke, 25.05.2025, 09:31
  • True BASIC - kerravon, 25.05.2025, 00:02
    • True BASIC - bocke, 25.05.2025, 09:34
      • True BASIC - kerravon, 25.05.2025, 14:50