RetroBasic - a future vaporware project for amusement
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:51 am
I was looking through the PC BLUE II archives on cd.textfiles.com, and a lot of the early disks have BASIC games on them that won't run under any of the variants of GWBASIC/BASICA I tried. In fact, I'm thinking many of the first disks were actually for CP/M'86, and MBASIC, not DOS. They also have a custom basic complier, and games for that.
(Later disks finally become compatible with DOS & GWBASIC.)
There are probably lots of ways to run these programs, and I didn't look all that hard, but it got me thinking about a cool project that could be:
"RetroBASIC", for running all those old x86 basic programs from magazines!
True, to get those basic programs running probably just means a small program to convert them to GWBASIC compatible syntax, but if I'm imagining, why not imagine big!
No real point other than to hopefully amuse you as well as me. And Version 2 would of course include Apple, Atari, Spectrum, etc. support, why not!
(Later disks finally become compatible with DOS & GWBASIC.)
There are probably lots of ways to run these programs, and I didn't look all that hard, but it got me thinking about a cool project that could be:
"RetroBASIC", for running all those old x86 basic programs from magazines!
True, to get those basic programs running probably just means a small program to convert them to GWBASIC compatible syntax, but if I'm imagining, why not imagine big!
No real point other than to hopefully amuse you as well as me. And Version 2 would of course include Apple, Atari, Spectrum, etc. support, why not!