Profoundly Nerdy<p>Is there a good guide for porting various old school dialects of BASIC to FreeBASIC or at least QBASIC for which it has a compatibility mode?</p><p>I'm trying to port some old HP 2000 Timeshare BASIC and some Applesoft BASIC to FreeBASIC and I'm hitting road blocks. I'm aiming to get the projects to complile successfully in QB mode first before migrating to FreeBASIC's native mode.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/FreeBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/QBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QBASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HP2000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HP2000</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/apple2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple2</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retroprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/porting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>porting</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
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Those of you who like and continue to use #BASIC, what do you like? What do you miss when you're coding in something else? Yes, embedded BASIC dialects count.
Do you think BASIC still has life left in it?
Ars Technica · Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
Me to local-run exaone3.5:32b "write a #QuickBasic program to animate a white square moving from left to right repeatedly"
Most #coding #AIs fuck up #QBASIC code pretty bad. This one did better than most I've tried. On the Left is what it spat out, and on the Right is how I fixed it.
Some shit code nonetheless.
Basic Pascal – what is in the plan
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/basic-pascal-what-is-in-plan.html
#qbasic #qb64 #freebasic #bbcbasicforsdl2 #retrogame #retro programming #plans #future #upcomming #8bit #msdos #gamewithball #frozen #spaceshooter #colors #textquest #gamepack #todolist #retro80s #arcade #simplegames #gamedev #devlog
Weekender walks after the little rain
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/weekender-walks-after-little-rain.html
Frozen Arctic Station – something has happened with the station
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/frozen-arctic-station-something-has.html
Basic Pascal – logotypes for beginning 2025
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/05/basic-pascal-logotypes-for-beginning.html
Bufcolor – this is a new word
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/04/bufcolor-this-is-new-word.html
Replied in thread
Square form chickens running and circle form one too
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/04/square-form-chickens-running-and-circle.html
Near the shore – shells at the shore
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/04/near-shore-shells-at-shore.html
Basic Maze – hatch searcher! Open the hatch! It is funny!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/04/basic-maze-hatch-searcher-open-hatch-it.html
Continued thread
When I was 11 years old, I was about 2 years into my journey as a #Computer #Programmer, but had been limited to #QBasic, outside of the occasional dabbling with #Apple #Hypercard at school. I wanted to do more, but C was a bit too advanced for me. That christmas, my #dad surprised me with a boxed copy of Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise edition. At the time, it was like $500. One of the greatest presents I have ever been given, I had no idea VB existed or that it was exactly what I wanted.
B ball – fantastic 80s! Colors, moves! Text!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/03/b-ball-fantastic-80s-colors-moves-text.html
That's a wrap for #SCaLE22x! It was great to see so many familiar faces and have so many great conversations about #Fedora, #Kubernetes, #DevOps, #Nextcloud, #podman, #QBASIC, and other #Linux adventures!
See you all again next year if not sooner!
B Ball – celebration rectangles!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/03/b-ball-celebration-rectangles.html