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True BASIC (Developers)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 25.05.2025, 00:02

> 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.

Complete thread:

• True BASIC - bocke, 24.05.2025, 17:56
  • 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