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by **~Rob** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:30 am

Is there a program, well Basic really, that means I can run BASIC in Win XP. The reason being is I am programming PIC's at the moment for electronics and the language is pretty similar to BASIC so it would be good for some revision into the language.

Cheers Guys as always!

by **Toby B.** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:42 am

interesting question. Unfortunately I don't know the answer... Its been about 15 or so years since I messed around with BASIC...

by **~Rob** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:47 am

I have two XP PC's and an ME Laptop, I'm now looking on ME as it is basically 98 as far as I can tell (of course it is probably completely different)

It looks like it is called qbasic, I knew it had some character before BASIC, but I just hope it is NTFS compatible

by **dr_st** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:14 am

Rob_Pope wrote:It looks like it is called qbasic, I knew it had some character before BASIC, but I just hope it is NTFS compatible

NTFS? I doubt the file system has anything to do with it...

QBasic isn't pure Basic, IIRC. It has some additional features, but I'm at a lost as to what they are. Still I believe it will get the job done for you.

by **Toby B.** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:38 am

QBasic requires DOS 5.0 or higher. Windows XP IIRC does not have "pure DOS"... So you would be limited to using 98 or possibly ME.

by **~Rob** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:43 pm

The Dos bit is the bit I meant, I only figured it out 5mins after I posted!!

Looks like I need dos then :roll:

by **thomas_w_bowman** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:52 pm

I've been annoyed for years that Microsoft dropped support for BASIC and BASICA (used to come with DOS 1.1 and up-BASICA had some extra commands for sounds and Sprites) with Win95, some other version(s) of BASIC may work - and you may be able to use VB (which is NOT free) to run BASIC source.

REXX came with OS/2, it's not BASIC - but is reasonably versatile.

Even compiled Basic won't work for XP.

Next M$ will be dropping 32 bit support for those wanting to use 64-Bit addressing. Gotta re-write everything every two years, even if it didn't change. :evil:

by **Big Jake** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:34 pm

Well, how about job security rewriting code? Now that the Y2K boom is gone...

by **~Rob** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:36 pm

Sorry, Jake, you just completely lost me!!!

by **Big Jake** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:44 pm

Gotta re-write everything every two years, even if it didn't change.

Just looking for the silver lining.

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