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hunter

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6. I remember a whole lot of business stuff written in BASIC and wrote some myself.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2023, 04:35 PM

Dec 2023

Unlike scientific apps and games, which were of great interest to those who would crack the software or eventually release the source code out the back door, a lot of BASIC business apps were boring, proprietary, distributed as boiled down encrypted p-code, copy protected, and eventually forgotten.

My favorite BASICS, for nostalgic recreation are:

-- https://www.bbcbasic.net/bbcsdl/

-- Frank Ostrowski's Turbo Basic XL for the eight bit Ataris

--- and sometimes QB64, standing well removed from the developer conflicts of 2022.

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i am into old programing languages , esp basic . were there any business apps in basic ? i know there are a ton of [View all] AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 OP

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I remember a whole lot of business stuff written in BASIC and wrote some myself. hunter Dec 2023 #6