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If you are craving a BASIC fix, I highly recommend getting a DOS emulator like DosBos-X and just installing a copy of Quickbasic 4.5 (which has a compiler among other niceties over the original Microsoft QBASIC). You can easily find it on the Internet Archive.

There are modern variants like QB64, but personally I find that BASIC really loses a lot of its appeal/flavor when you move from an interpretative language to a compiled one.

https://dosbox-x.com

I made this a while ago and it ran beautifully in DosBox on my Mac:

https://specularrealms.com/q-basic

parent vunderba 1 year ago

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