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    From pinnerite@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 10 20:11:09 2021
    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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  • From Wendelin Uez@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 11 19:39:32 2021
    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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  • From Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Tue Apr 27 22:00:31 2021
    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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