Creating a list of BASIC stuff

[johnblood]

I recently decided to start a list of all kinds of BASIC stuff (https://github.com/JohnBlood/awesome-basic). Feel free to spread the list and suggest additions. My goal is to keep track of cool BASIC stuff.

[FellippeHeitor]

Cool list and cool purpose, John.

Welcome to the forum!

[johnblood]

Cool list and cool purpose, John.

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks. I hope to have lots of BASIC fun. :)

[johnblood]

another dialect:

Yabasic: www.yabasic.de

I intended to add Yabasic, but forgot. Thanks for reminding me.

[TerryRitchie]

Welcome!

Cool, you added the tutorial I am updating.

[johnblood]

Welcome!

Cool, you added the tutorial I am updating.

I'm still working on creating an ebook version of your tutorial. Been busy with so many projects.

[TerryRitchie]

I've still got a few tasks to go so no hurry on the ePub. Thank you for taking that on by the way.

[granzeier]

Would this be useful?

https://ia801302.us.archive.org/24/items/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01.pdf

This is the entire first year of Dr. Dobb's Journal, where they introduced BASIC for microcomputers (Tiny BASIC.) I was able to download all fifteen volumes (years) from there.

[_vince]

You have JustBASIC, bplus's favourite, and FreeBASIC which is my favourite. Very good list!

[TerryRitchie]

Pbasic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBASIC

Used that one quite a bit when programming Parallax BASIC Stamps back in the day

DarkBASIC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Creators#DarkBASIC

I used to use this to create simple 3D stuff in BASIC back in the early 00's

Blitz BASIC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC

Played with this one and Blitz3D

Here's an entire list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects

[bplus]

You have JustBASIC, bplus's favourite, and FreeBASIC which is my favourite. Very good list!

To complete the list of bplus favorites, you' have to include SmallBASIC that works with Windows, Linux and Android, but has goofy editor (but on the mend with normal one now), and I don't mean MS Small Basic.

"favourite" is that the English spelling?

[_vince]

"favourite" is that the English spelling?

Yes, Canadian as well

[Dav]

A little outdated, but had this in my bookmarks.  A decent list of basic languages.

http://basic.mindteq.com/index.php?i=full

- Dav

[_vince]

... and Decimal BASIC: an interesting BASIC interpreter:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008683/english/

and

https://decimalbasic.ninja-web.net/English/basic01/basic01e.htm

This is a nice project, a matlab-style BASIC.  Something like this would be a good supplement to a math class or textbook.  There are some very nice examples and references on that site as well.

But why would anyone care to use it, though?  Matlab, mathematica, maple, etc already exist and if I personally insisted on BASIC I'd just write a bunch of SUBs to do all the fancy plotting stuff with more flexibility and none of the disadvantages. I've heard the same being said about python over matlab.