Microsoft BASIC, GW-BASIC and BASICA all use a prompt that looks like this: I can't figure out how to exit any of these. Typing END does not exit them. EXIT, QUIT, Q, Ctrl+C, and everything else...

In both GW-BASIC and QuickBASIC, statements are passed arguments, some of which are optional and can be omitted depending on the statement: REM Move the text cursor to the specified column and row...

In BASIC I know of two instructions to print to the screen, PRINT, and WRITE, both of which automatically print strings with a newline at the end. I want to print a string without a newline. How ca...

I'm currently refactoring a heap of old GWBASIC code into python so it can be run on newer machines. They're all old engineering mathematics programs which are quite maths heavy as well as using th...

Well, I suddenly missed GW-Basic very much, so I want to install one in my new Ubuntu box. I have a long time not programmed for GW-Basic, so I don't know if there comes new releases. I copied GWBA...

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 dunno about USA and the UK, but in India, schools still teach GW-BASIC. Yes, it's: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10 As far as my experience goes, even writing assembler is easier than t...

My dad learnt programming in the 80s and he is still stuck with GW-BASIC (and making a living out of it). He was asked to create a CSV file, but he only knows how to create files of fixed-width rec...