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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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marcus777 Posted 2026-08-08

5 out of 5 stars

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!
dietmar Posted 2017-11-09

2 out of 5 stars

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"

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skogtun Posted 2014-03-08

3 out of 5 stars

Good compatibility with old basic dialects, but very slow compared to e.g. gplbasic.

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BSD, Linux, MS-DOS

Languages

English

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C Interpreters

Registered

2002-03-22

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