What freeware IDE is available other than Visual Basic? Is there any freeware QBASIC compatible IDE for BASIC?

I'm translating an excessively old GW-BASIC program into JavaScript, and I've come across a piece of syntax that has me stumped. Note (again): totally not my code, and the variable names are all in...

I've noticed that nowhere I can find can give me a definitive answer to the question above. I first wondered about this when I noticed that you never had to state the type of variable in QBasic whe...

I need a way to find if the character ('<') has hit a wall (Black pixel Graphic) -On a ZX81 game. I'm been looking at another game... which uses code if peek(peek 16398 +256*peek 16399) = cod...

Possible Duplicate: Why did we bother with line numbers at all? I'm curious about why early versions of the BASIC programming language had line numbering like in: 42 PRINT "Hello wor...

This is more of a business-oriented programming question that I can't seem to figure out how to resolve. I work with a team of programmers who have been working with BASIC for over 20 years. I was ...

I started off programming in Basic on the ZX81, then BASICA, GW-BASIC, and QBasic. I moved on to C (Ah, Turbo C 3.1, I hardly knew ye...) When I got started in microcontrollers I regressed with th...