Jayson Smith on Nostr: So I just discovered something cool for 80's retro tech nerds like myself. Are you ...
So I just discovered something cool for 80's retro tech nerds like myself. Are you familiar with Basica or GWBasic, IBM's and Microsoft's BASIC programming environments for DOS before QBasic came along? Do you have a pile of .bas files you haven't been able to run for decades? Now you can! With PCBasic, a Python package that acts like GWBasic. On Python3, just go pip install pcbasic and away you go. I tried this a few years ago and found it to be inaccessible, but what I didn't know is that there's a command line switch. If you go pcbasic --interface=text you get a nice text interface from which you can issue BASIC commands and see responses, run programs, etc. Very nifty!
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