GW-BASIC VS libi86

Compare GW-BASIC vs libi86 and see what are their differences.

GW-BASIC

Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983, with MASM or JWasm • "pre-release" binaries at https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC/releases • source mirror of https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC • fork of https://github.com/dspinellis/GW-BASIC (by tkchia)
8086 msdos Reverse Engineering x86-16 masm Retrocomputing basic-programming-language gw-basic gwbasic jwasm watcom Microsoft assembly-language awk-script

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libi86

Attempt to reimplement non-standard C library facilities (e.g. <conio.h>) used in MS-DOS programs, for IA-16 GCC & ACK ― mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/libi86 • Ubuntu packages for cross-compilation at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://github.com/tkchia/libi86/releases (by tkchia)
8086 8088 x86-16 msdos ms-dos Gcc ia16 libi86 Retrocomputing gas dpmi turbo-c-compatible borland-c-compatible open-watcom-compatible ack-compiler

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GW-BASIC libi86
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MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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GW-BASIC

Posts with mentions or reviews of GW-BASIC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.
  • Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2022
    There are forked versions which have been made somewhat to work. [1] [2] The original version (the linked article) won't work as-is, since there are no build scripts, instructions, or executables.

    [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/GW-BASIC

    [2] https://github.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC

libi86

Posts with mentions or reviews of libi86. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GW-BASIC and libi86 you can also consider the following projects:

tashtalk - An interface for Apple's LocalTalk networking protocol.

lzsa - Byte-aligned, efficient lossless packer that is optimized for fast decompression on 8-bit micros

windows

ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer

ISA_8bitNetwork_8019 - 8bit ISA NE2000-compatible network card based on the RTL8019AS chip

XTulator - XTulator is a portable, open source x86 PC emulator currently supporting the 8086 instruction set and 80186 extensions.

unzx0_x86 - Free, zlib licensed ZX0 decompressor for the x86

DOjS - A MS-DOS Creative Coding IDE/platform based on JavaScript

GW-BASIC - The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

GW-BASIC - Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

jSH - A Javascript scripting engine for DOS

GW-BASIC vs tashtalk libi86 vs lzsa GW-BASIC vs windows libi86 vs ao486_MiSTer GW-BASIC vs ISA_8bitNetwork_8019 libi86 vs XTulator GW-BASIC vs unzx0_x86 libi86 vs DOjS GW-BASIC vs GW-BASIC libi86 vs unzx0_x86 GW-BASIC vs GW-BASIC libi86 vs jSH