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endbasic
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Write Your Own Terminal
I can confirm that writing a terminal is fun, for the reasons mentioned in the article: it’s easy to get “self-hosting”, but then the possibilities are endless :)
In my case, this was about creating the terminal for EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/). I wanted to mix text and graphics in the same console, so I had to ditch Xterm.js and create my own thing. It was really exciting to see graphics rendering mix with text “just fine” when I was able to render the first line.
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Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?
I tried to set up a Raspberry Pi and configured it to boot into a simple window manager with DosBox full screen by default. I taught my kids to launch games within that and they learned the very basics… but it didn’t stick: they haven’t really gained any interest in how to do other stuff in the shell.
Anyway: check (my own) https://www.endbasic.dev/ which I’ve written precisely for the situation you describe :) You would actually have to /write/ the games first though!
- FLaNK Stack for 25 September 2023
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EndBASIC
Slightly buried: Apache 2.0, written in Rust, https://github.com/endbasic/endbasic/
Definitely an interesting attempt to cut through layers of abstraction and make something that lets people make the computer do useful/interesting things. No idea how well they realize that vision, of course, but good idea.
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Does this exist already? A converter from MS BASIC to Rust
Or you could use https://www.endbasic.dev/
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TwinBASIC is a modern BASIC compiler
Somebody else brought it up in a separate comment, but because you specifically ask about the Raspberry, I'll mention EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/) here again :)
Supporting this platform has been a primary goal of mine, and in fact, one of the features (GPIO) only works on the Raspberry Pi today :) But there is a long road ahead. My vision is to create a minimal Linux image that boots straight into EndBASIC, and extend EndBASIC to give you more control of the Pi's hardware. The idea is to truly mimic the old C64 experience, but leveraging the power of modern hardware / infrastructure.
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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (2018)
Agree with the author’s thesis of how the folks that “grew with computers” have an advantage over those approaching them now, in terms of understanding the inner workings. I’m not sure that this matters much in terms of solving actual problems though, which is probably a good thing.
But I somehow find it a little bit sad that this is the case, so I’ll plug my own https://www.endbasic.dev/ because it’s very fitting in this context :) I’ve been building it precisely as a way to understand everything that’s going on (although it’s still far from fulfilling that promise).
Also, buried in the article is a reference to the https://10print.org/ book. I recently came across it at HPB and it has been a pretty entertaining read. Couldn’t believe there was so much to write about such a simple little program!
- EndBASIC: "BASIC interpreter + DOS environment, reimagined."
qb64
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The BASIC programming language turns 60
I seem to remember some pretty serious (as in actual paid) programs written in QuickBASIC - the compiled version of QBASIC.
Lots and lots of 'business middleware' was written in various forms of BASIC, the most famous being VBA, but also quite a bit in things like QuickBASIC in an older period.
https://qb64.com keeps the dream alive.
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Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?
Most people are posting links to hardware, but in my mind, this is a software question. Maybe one of those BASIC interpreters with an integrated IDE, the way that QBASIC used to be on older Windows versions?
QB64 is the modern equivalent: https://qb64.com/
Your kids won't literally need to navigate the command line to launch the games. But I think that editing config files to "hack" the game is still on the table :-)
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EndBASIC
Many, really. QuickBASIC is very complete. You can easily install it in DosBOX to take a look, or download QB64 (https://qb64.com/) for a similar but more modern experience.
Some specifics that are in my mind as "must haves" are user-defined functions, file I/O, records (aka structs), syntax checking / interactive help in the editor...
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Not counting Visual Basic, I haven't used or even seen a QBasic IDE since this until just yesterday, I downloaded the latest.
https://qb64.com/ does actually get updated :)
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Can anyone recommend some good free tools for programming, debugging, and virtualization on Ubuntu?
OpenWatcom is a very nice compiler and debugger. Another one is QB64.
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Basic to C++
QB64 compiles QBasic to either C or C++; not sure which. But it might not be useful for generating standalone C++ code.
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Small Visual Basic
For my 9-year-old boy, I picked QB64 [1] and things are going very well. The experience is identical to old QBasic, but with a saner language that encourages to declare the type of variables.
At the moment we are following [2], which seems perfect for a child of that age.
[1] https://github.com/QB64Official/qb64 is the repo to follow: after the dramatic split of the dev community happened in 2022, the older one is not used anymore.
[2] https://www.qb64tutorial.com/
What are some alternatives?
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
QB64pe - The QB64 Phoenix Edition Repository
mp4 - MP4 library, CLI tool, server
FunSharp - Fun cross-platform graphics library, based on the Small Basic library, made specifically for F# and C#.
fruit-economy
darcfx-submissions - User Submissions to DarcFX.com
soli - Solidity REPL
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
cemu - Cheap EMUlator: lightweight multi-architecture assembly playground
sVB-Small-Visual-Basic - Small Visual Basic (sVB) is an educational programming language, created by Eng. Mohammad Hamdy as an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic (SB). It is meant to be easier and more powerful at the same time, to introduce programming basics to kids and beginners of any age, provided that they can use the English keyboard on the Windows OS.
objstor - object store
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio