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“Vintage BASIC is an interpreter for a programming language of days gone by. A time when every home computer had a simple language called BASIC, and every kid who owned a computer learned it.“
Say no more. Now when everyone wants to create faster and more versatile BASIC dialect, Lyle Kopnicky did excatly opposite way, and [...]
To boldly go…
This article was originally released in PCopy #40
In 1971, Mike Mayfield probably didn’t know what he was starting when he wrote his very first Star Trek game. In the course of the following year, he had already ported it to Hewlett Packard BASIC.
The FreeBASIC community is an interesting one. It came into being like a phoenix, rising from the ashes of the QBASIC community (even though we still call it the Qmunity). QBASIC programmers have brought with them the long experience of decades. After all, if you know QBASIC, you’re right at home with FreeBASIC. Unfortunately, with [...]