TrekBASIC VS gobasic

I had a similar flashback recently.

I remembered the old Star Trek game game from the seventies. Many versions of it are available on line, but each was specific to a particular version of basic - versions I didn't have.

I ended up downloading one of the more promising versions of Star Trek, and then implementing a basic interpreter to run it, in python.

https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC If any one is interested.

For me, part of the fun was implementing things like code coverage and data breakpoints. Tools I never had then, but were handy to have to find issues.

Ok, I just made the repository public, in case anyone is curious: https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC

There are a bunch of BASIC interpreters out there, my own isn't so complex or thorough, but I definitely had fun writing it:

https://github.com/skx/gobasic/

My own vision was to reproduce something akin to the ZX Spectrum, rather than the more advanced Microsoft BASIC.

Unusable might be a bit harsh, but I have to say that when I wrote my own BASIC interpreter last year I deliberately concentrated on the line-numbers and facilities of the ZX Spectrum I remembered:

https://github.com/skx/gobasic

Being standalone it doesn't have the graphic support or the interactivity, but it was still a fun project to work upon.

I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia:

https://github.com/skx/gobasic