awesome-basic
github.com/johnblood/awesome-basic ↗A curated list of awesome BASIC dialects, IDEs, and tutorials
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Tutorials
- A Beginner's Guide To FreeBasic
- A Beginner's Guide to Gambas
- BASIC Gaming
a short-lived ezine that has a wealth of information
- BlitzMax for the Absolute Beginner
- Franktic's FreeBASIC Programming Tutorial
- Programming with yab
Dialects
- AppGameKit
an easy-to-learn game development engine, ideal for Beginners, Hobbyists & Indie developers. Now anyone can quickly code and build apps for multiple platforms using AppGameKit - have your demos and games up and running on mobile devices.
- asp-classic-emulator
Run ASP Classic on macOS, Linux and BSD. Written in Node.js.
- atinybasic
An Actually Tiny BASIC for Arduino.
- B4X
Simple, powerful, and modern development tools.
- BaCon
a free BASIC to C translator for Unix-based systems, which runs on most Unix/Linux/BSD platforms, including MacOSX. It intends to be a programming aid in creating tools which can be compiled on different platforms (including 64-bit environments) while trying to revive the days of the good old BASIC.
- basgo
compiles BASIC-lang to Golang.
Miscellaneous
- Collection of Commodore BASIC programs
- GW-BASIC source code
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983.
- Hoard of GW-BASIC
A collection of GW-BASIC code by various authors.
- MBASIC-Protect
Information on the CP/M MBASIC interpreter's protect mode.
- Project Cherry
a Chip-8/SCHIP emulator written in FreeBASIC.
- The Basics' page (since 2001)
IDEs, Editors, Plugins, and Tools
- DavsIDE
an Alternative IDE for the QB64 compiler.
- InForm
a GUI engine and WYSIWYG interface designer for QB64.
- mono-basic
Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime.
- QBASDOWN
a Markdown implementation for FreeDOS. Written for FreeDOS in QuickBASIC 4.5
- VisualFBEditor
an IDE for FreeBasic under active development.
- vscode-vba
Extension that adds rich VBA editor support to Visual Studio Code.
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