The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C.

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • Excellent BASIC interpreter; good compatibility, ease of use, with good documentations and helps. The recent versions are somewhat of a Rosetta Stone of BASIC dialect versions. The interpreter may be easily configured to "emulate" various common past dialects. The interpreter is written in C, is a fairly tight package and easy to follow. BWBASIC is not particularly fast, but it's really good, and well behaved. I've genuinely enjoyed toying with it (GNU/Linux, on mac thru Parallels Desktop, virtual machine). The compile on debian was flawless, fast, and easy. Thanks, to the guys that are maintaining!
  • it is quite faster then pcbasic (look at my review there) and has Compatibility yes but no renum or renumber possible but has for to next if then else goto gosub and or mid$ also it will crash during longer operations "bwbasic encountered a problem and needs to close. send error report yes no"
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Good compatibility with old basic dialects, but very slow compared to e.g. gplbasic.
    2 users found this review helpful.
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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, MS-DOS

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Interpreters

Registered

2002-03-22