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  Ancient find pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2021-03-10 20:11 +0000
    Re: Ancient find "Wendelin Uez" <wuez@online.de> - 2021-03-11 19:39 +0100
    Re: Ancient find Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <marc@rintsch.de> - 2021-04-27 22:00 +0000

#496 — Ancient find

While filtering an old file to decide whether to keep or scrap, I came across three pages of green music-ruled printout with a BASIC program written by me in 1983.

I decided that it would come in useful. Eventually I want to convert it to C or C++ but I want to test it in an MBASIC or MSBASIC compatible interpreter first.

I have installed :

Vintage Basic - I cannot find out how to load the source in.
Gambas3 - I have 29 instal errors that will not shift.

Any advice would be welcome.

TIA


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#497

What kind of Microsoft Basic is the code, QBASIC, MBASIC or BASCOM? Or did 
you use any other non-Microsoft BASIC interpreter/compiler?

I would prefer to run the code with its original interpreter. Some 
interpreter have still been able to run under WIN7 and lower, and WIN7 could 
be run in a virtual machine.

There are also virtual machines available for CP/M and MS DOS where you can 
run original QBASIC f.e. directly, but there are problems booting them from 
floppy disk even on machines with built-in FDD. As I heard some had no 
problems to boot from USB floppy.

wuez 

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#498

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:11:09 +0000, pinnerite wrote:

> While filtering an old file to decide whether to keep or scrap, I came
> across three pages of green music-ruled printout with a BASIC program
> written by me in 1983.
> 
> I decided that it would come in useful. Eventually I want to convert it
> to C or C++ but I want to test it in an MBASIC or MSBASIC compatible
> interpreter first.
> 
> Any advice would be welcome.

If it's more like GW-BASIC, you may try PC-BASIC, an interpreter, 
including the screen editor, implemented in Python:

  http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/index.html

For QBasic/QuickBasic like code, I would give the FreeBASIC compiler a 
shot:

  https://freebasic.net/

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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