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GW-BASIC, BASICA, Clones

Please be sure to take the time to visit https://gw-basic.com, a site dedicated to all things GW-BASIC.

Microsoft

• GW-BASIC User’s Guide
• Compiling and Linking with BASCOM 1.0 and 2.0

Open-Source (Official’ish)

• Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
• Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983, with MASM or JWasm - Fork of the following…
• Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
• GW-BASIC (TK Chia): Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983, with MASM or JWasm.

IBM

• Wikipedia - IBM Advanced BASIC (BASICA.COM)

Clones

• PC-BASIC - Free, cross-platform emulator for the GW-BASIC family of interpreters.
• PC-BASIC Source
• GW-BASIC by Cory Smith (Silverlight Edition): no longer available due to Microsoft sunsetting (deprecating) Silverlight.

Third-Party Extensions/Tools

• GW-BASIC Language Server (VSCode)
• F5 Anything (VSCode)
• Raster Master Sprite/Icon/Map Editor: Has support for generating GW-BASIC source.

Samples/Code

• Hoard of GW-BASIC - A collection of GW-BASIC code by various authors
• The Converting the ‘BASIC Computer Games’ to ‘modern languages’ project.. Read more…

Videos

• Writing a Tetris clone in GW-BASIC – Tandy 1000 programming example (Source (PDF))

SUPER COOL PROJECTS!

• The M.I.C.E. Project - The (World’s) Most Ill-Conceived Emulator: A TRS-80 Model I Emulator in GW-BASIC.