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@profoundlynerdy #BASIC is niche, and will probably always be. Disregarding VB.net and #Microsoft, there are several good ones capable of compiling modern #GUI apps on multiple platforms, but these #programming communities are not huge:

- #PureBasic (moderately BASIC-like, but very good, cheap)
- #FreeBasic (very good, free)
- #QB64-PE (good, but GUI side is underdeveloped, though)
- #Hollywood-MAL (good but no form designer and not free)

Programming languages that change how you think about programming...

* Assembly
* BASIC
* Forth
* Haskell
* Lisp
* Perl
* Raku

What else should be on this list?

#programming #assembly #basic #freebasic #forth #haskell #lisp #perl #rakulang

Those of you who like #BASIC programming should checkout #FreeBASIC. It's a modern open source BASIC implementation with a #QBASIC comparability mode.

It's not interpreted. Everything compiles to C.

https://freebasic.net/

It's an amazing project that needs a helping hand.

#foss #opensource #programming

🚀 YouTube's groundbreaking innovation: making you believe FreeBASIC's #performance #boost is just one cookie click away! 🤖 Because who needs complex algorithms when #JavaScript can magically solve everything? 😂
https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27927 #YouTube #Innovation #FreeBASIC #HackerNews #ngated

YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)

https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27927

#HackerNews #YouTube #FreeBASIC #performance #update #2019 #programming #news

Basic Pascal 1.19 – Linear – space and two shooters

We are continue to celebrate release of version Basic pascal 1.10 “Frozen”. Most long development. And it consists with several plans. So, first plan. It is plan Linear.

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/08/basic-pascal-119-linear-space-and-two.html

#retrogame #freebasic #spaceshooter #aliens #space #deepspace #invaders #shmup #topdown #arcade #insects #bugs #spacefriends #msx2 #8bit #msdos #80s #320x240

BufColor – mysterious process with style of MS DOS and 8 bit

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/07/bufcolor-mysterious-process-with-style.html

#freebasic #retroprogramming #logic #earlymsdos #msdos #8bit #colors #colorfull #collumns #rows #pickcolor #16color #retrogame #simplegame #fastgame #relaxgame #early90sgame #arcade #80s #lines #sortitems #sortthings #gamedev #devlog

Is there a good guide for porting various old school dialects of BASIC to FreeBASIC or at least QBASIC for which it has a compatibility mode?

I'm trying to port some old HP 2000 Timeshare BASIC and some Applesoft BASIC to FreeBASIC and I'm hitting road blocks. I'm aiming to get the projects to complile successfully in QB mode first before migrating to FreeBASIC's native mode.

#BASIC #FreeBASIC #QBASIC #HP2000 #apple2 #retrocomputing #retroprogramming #retrogaming #porting #programming

Those of you who like and continue to use #BASIC, what do you like? What do you miss when you're coding in something else? Yes, embedded BASIC dialects count.

Do you think BASIC still has life left in it?

#programming #FreeBASIC #qbasic #vb #vba

Any general tips for doing well at a game of Hamurabi, of 101 BASIC Computer Games fame? I got the original BASIC source to compile on Linux, thanks to FreeBASIC, but I keep ending up a fink within a round or two. #Hamurabi #BASIC #retrogaming #FreeBASIC #retrocomputing #Linux

Un programme #freebasic
flame.bas compilé et exécuté sous Linux. !
freebasic est un langage de programmation simple, puissant et gratuit ! qui tourne sous linux, windows, dos et #freedos !

#linux #programming , #basic #freebasic

Basic Pascal – what is in the plan

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/basic-pascal-what-is-in-plan.html

#qbasic #qb64 #freebasic #bbcbasicforsdl2 #retrogame #retro programming #plans #future #upcomming #8bit #msdos #gamewithball #frozen #spaceshooter #colors #textquest #gamepack #todolist #retro80s #arcade #simplegames #gamedev #devlog

🌗 FreeBASIC 程式語言 | 官方網站
➤ 開源、相容、且功能強大的 BASIC 編譯器
✤ https://freebasic.net/
FreeBASIC 是一個免費且開源的 BASIC 編譯器，適用於 Windows、DOS 和 Linux 系統。它高度相容 QuickBASIC 程式碼，能無修改編譯並運行許多 QuickBASIC 程式。同時，FreeBASIC 也提供更強大的功能，支援程序式、物件導向和元程式設計範式，並能產生主控臺和圖形化應用程式，以及動態和靜態函式庫。它支援 C 函式庫，並具有部分 C++ 函式庫支援，使其能與 C 及其他語言的函式庫無縫整合。
+ 「我一直在尋找一個能取代 QuickBASIC 的開源替代方案，FreeBASIC 似乎正符合我的需求！」
+ 「這真是個令人印象深刻的專案！能將經典 BASIC 語言帶入現代，並提供如此多的功能。」
#開源程式語言 #編譯器 #FreeBASIC

Welcome to 2023, where #BASIC still refuses to die! 🚀 #FreeBASIC, the open-source relic, ensures you can relive your QuickBASIC glory days... if you're willing to rewrite everything 😅. #Nostalgia strikes again, because nothing screams "modern innovation" like DOS support! 🖥️🎉
https://freebasic.net/ #OpenSource #DOSSupport #RetroProgramming #HackerNews #ngated