Just plain old BASIC compilers.

Hello, I recently ran across a site that had quite helpful BASIC tutorials for beginners. However, when I search up for a compiler, I can't seem to find one for plain BASIC. They all seem to be for some other flavor of BASIC, such as qBASIC or what not. Can anyone link me to a good compiler I can use for BASIC?

Thanks

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Danman32

QBasic should be fine, just don't use the extensions.

To me that's like asking "Can I have a basic car? No power steering, no power brakes, etc." Hard to find today.

Megadeth4168

I started out learning on BASIC and BASICA
I then went to QBasic which is very simialr.
These day's I'm not sure where you could find the old BASIC program... We got rid of the old IBM PC Jr. years ago..... Hehe, Basic came on a cartridge on that beast!

I think you will be just fine with QBasic

JDMurray

The original BASIC was Darthmouth BASIC written back in 1977. This was the BASIC that Bill Gates used and loved and evangelized into Altair BASIC, OBASIC, MBASIC, Visual Basic, VB.NET, and finally Microsoft Visual Basic 2005. If it wasn't for BG3 the BASIC language might have faded into history along with Algol and Modula.

A short list of BASIC dialects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects

drpower555

I use this site often...

http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/

JDMurray

DRPower555 wrote:

I use this site often...

http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/

Nice site. There's quite a few links to BASIC tutorials: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/basictutr.html