What is a good BASIC compiler for Mac OSX? [closed]

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What is a good BASIC compiler for Mac OSX?

Marquismarquisate answered 5/11, 2010 at 22:44 Comment(2)

All I can tell you based on personal experience is that The Beagle Compiler (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros) running under Virtual II (virtualii.com) probably works like a champ. :-) 20 GOTO 10 – Khalil 23/4, 2011 at 23:16

QB64 will cross-platform between Windows/Linux/MACOSx/Android. – Agamic 9/11, 2016 at 6:7

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Most of these have trial versions that you can check out for at least 30 days before deciding to buy. REALbasic is an awesome tool, and I've wanted to try Objective-Basic for a long time. KBasic looks promising, especially considering the price.

And then there's always the option of running BSD/Unix/Linux-based tools in OS X, as well as Windows programs if you have an Intel-based Mac.

Insentient answered 6/11, 2010 at 6:52 Comment(3)

Chipmunk is an interpreter, not a compiler. – Anthropomorphous 10/1, 2014 at 15:3

kBasic for Mac is gone. – Nikitanikki 23/1, 2017 at 17:24

It doesn't appear to be "gone", @Eric. It seems to now be called "Basic for Qt". – Insentient 23/1, 2017 at 17:49

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I would have to say REALBasic.

Recently answered 5/11, 2010 at 22:52 Comment(0)

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PureBasic is probably the most full featured but it is a lower level language. REALbasic looks good but I've had horrible experience with it trying to do anything "real".

Borneol answered 23/4, 2011 at 22:52 Comment(0)

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QB64 isn't exactly pretty, but it's a dialect of QBasic, with mac, windows, and linux IDEs, and it can (with tie ins to eclipse) compile for android as well. The results, however, can be very pretty.

http://qb64.net/forum/index.php

It's also worth noting that it has expanded the QB command list, is 64-bit clean, and can do some stunning graphics, network operations, and more.

As a reminder: QBasic is a structured basic with limited variable scoping (subroutine or program-wide), which can optionally use line numbers.

I have compiled old QBasic code unmodified provided it didn't do file access, and that's just a matter of changing the directory separator...

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