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Supported Devices
Mobile
Updated
May 13,2019
Size
1.04 MB
Age
Everyone
Release Date
Description
BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

The primary purpose of this project is to reproduce the overall experience provided by the original GW-BASIC (Microsoft Corporation circa 1983-1988); preserving this important chapter in computing history and making it available for future generations to enjoy.

Features:

* Faithful recreation of the original GW-BASIC "IDE" (REPL).
* Full support for graphics keywords such as PSET, LINE, CIRCLE, PAINT, GET, PUT and DRAW
* Full support for CGA and EGA graphics modes including original fonts.
* Full support for all File I/O keywords.
* Uses isolated (local) storage to create a virtualized C:\ file system.
* File "browser" for file management (LOAD, CHDIR, RMDIR, KILL, etc.).
* Completely functional regardless of network connection.
* Supports Portrait and Landscape.
* Much, much, more...

Still to come...

* Continue to improve interactive experience through the touch-centric Phone UI.
* PLAY commands.
* Easily share code with fellow coders; so get started now if you'd like to have your code featured!

This ***IS*** the GW-BASIC you remember... on the phone! Don't accept anything less.

TRIAL MODE

All commands/keywords/functions are available except the following:

* OPEN, CLOSE, INPUT#, LINE INPUT#, WRITE#, LOC, EOF, LOF, LOCK, UNLOCK, FIELD, GET (File), PUT (File)
* SAVE, MERGE, KILL, MKDIR, RMDIR
* CHAIN, COMMON

Use of these methods in trial mode will cause an Advanced Feature error (73) that can be trapped using ON ERROR.

VERSION HISTORY

V0.01
- Initial release

V0.02
- Custom keyboard (SIP).
- Added support for PEN, FRE, BEEP and SOUND.
- Added "contact developer" menu item to the interpreter to ease contact the developer by email; optionally can include current in-memory script.

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