Well, there are another two quite good BASIC compilers: Turbo Basic and Power Basic. You can both download from my site at: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/pascal.htm
(The site is in czech and there is a big title "pascal" but don't panic - theese download links are at the bottom of page.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group? > > Hi Imre, > > > Well I think what we are realy missing is a good BASIC compiler. > > Something like QuickBASIC. Free BASIC has something like that but > > that works only in 32 bit. > > As http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/about?section=diff > shows, FreeBASIC is very close to QuickBASIC already. And > 386+ PCs have been around for more than 15 years now. I > hear that people think FreeDOS is obsolete because they no > longer have computers OLD enough to run it. You should not > support their point by putting much effort in writing 8086 > software for FreeDOS today ;-). > > I would appreciate some FreeBASIC command line options to > set default types (QB: single for variables, 16bit for INTEGER, > FB: integer for variables, 32bit for INTEGER). That would > make FreeBASIC ("command line optionally"!) behave even more > like QuickBASIC, where appropriate. Automatic arrays for up > to 10 elements are probably a bad idea, as are automatic > declarations before CALL, but one could write a preprocessor > to compile QB programs out of the box. Last but not least, > padding of fixed length strings should probably have a command > line "simulate QB" option as well... :-). > > > > FreeDOS can even run on the most modern PC with multi core > multi CPU 64bit architecture and many GB of RAM, even > though it will only use 1 core and 4 GB of RAM at most. > And FreeDOS is useful for everything up to the most modern > PC with a 32bit Linux kernel and DOSEMU running on it, or > even higher, if you use a virtual PC in Win, Linux or MacOS. > > FreeDOS also makes sense on any PC which is too old for the > current versions of Linux or Windows. Because if you have, > say, only 128 MB RAM, the current versions of, say, KDE and > WinXP will not run well. Combine that with older versions > of Linux and Windows increasingly becoming unsupported > software (I think SuSE has no distro with 2.4 kernel left in > their "current / supported versions" any more), and you find > why there is motivation to help people out with seemingly > old software like "outdated Linux" and "only DOS". > > > Let's completely rewrite it so that it works in 16 bit real mode. > > Especially if we can hold all the tables in XMS. So that it requires a > > 386 and 4 to 8 Mb anyway. > > If you insist on 8086, improve BWBASIC. If you want real mode > with XMS, you already want 286. And 286 is some half-life state > between 8086 and the classic 386 architecture. Very small > group of computers / users if you ask me. Protected mode itself > is no problem at all for Basic as long as your PC is a 386 or > newer, if you ask me. > > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
