"Spidern" <spider_big@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Do anyone remember the Microsoft's BW-basic?
> I have used it to make small programs.
> But now on my new compute with Windows Vista Ultimate x64 it wont work
at all.
> I have a extra computer with Linux UBUNTU operative system.
> Could it be possible to run GW-Basic in UBUNTU?
Dump GW-BASIC and get QBASIC (see below), which is vastly superior.
QBASIC will take virtually any GW-BASIC syntax as-is, and has many
newer features, such as a great IDE with editor and online help.
You don't need line numbers, though they're still sup****ted. Only a
masochist would use GW-BASIC when they have QBASIC. Just be sure
to save your old GW-BASIC programs in ASCII (not tokenized) form:
SAVE "xxx",A
so that QBASIC can read them. In a nutshell, QBASIC is to GWBASIC
as a B-29 is to the Wright Brothers, and you may not have to change
a single line of code to use it with your programs.
To get QBASIC, download OLDDOS.EXE from this page:
http://sup****t.microsoft.com/kb/135315
or this direct link to the file:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/tool_s/1.0/w95/en-us/olddos.exe
OLDDOS.EXE is a self extracting file. Run it and you get a number of
files, including the two you want: QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP. Just
copy them to a folder in the path (e.g. C:\WINDOWS), and type QBASIC
from the command line. The rest is intuitive and simple, and you have
online help with the F1 key.
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