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Answer» Was wondering if ANYONE knew if there were any editor/compilers out there that support the old language of GW-Basic but without the original 64k memory limit to work with?Quote from: DaveLembke on August 05, 2010, 03:52:40 PM Was wondering if anyone knew if there were any editor/compilers out there that support the old language of GW-Basic but without the original 64k memory limit to work with? I think freeBASIC can still interpret and run the old Street BASIC dialects from BASICA and GW-BASIC.If your OS will support it, I believe the QBasic interpreter will run GW-BASIC programs but in order to load them they need to be in ASCII FORMAT - that is, saved from GW-BASIC with the ,a option. QBasic allows 64K memory for code PER subroutine and 64K for data. Arrays, fixed-length strings, and user-defined types get 64K each. There is 64K of memory available for CODE per SUBroutine and 64K of memory for DATA. You can also have far arrays of numerics, fixed-length strings, and user- defined types of up to 64K each. You can download QBasic free from Microsoft: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/tool_s/1.0/w95/en-us/olddos.exe Not very accurate after only 10000 ITERATIONS... Thanks everyone... QBasic would definately do it and I wasnt aware of it being free for download. I figured like GW-Basic on DOS 2.11 that it was only available on a floppy disk of DOS. My floppies are long gone, but its cool that I will be able to run some old programs through a legal downloadable COPY of QBasic. Many Thanks!!!QBasic is on any Windows 95/98/ME install CD. |
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