Hi Scott,
It just so happens that for the past several weeks, I have been working with
Liberty Basic. It is a full featured Basic compiler and it has been fully
Jaws accessible so far. I am Using Win 7 64-bit with Jaws 13. According to
the website, it will also work with Win 8. I am using the demo version,
which means that I cannot produce a standalone .exe program and there are
also nag screens when you exit the program. The program has extensive help
and example programs. I have done extensive programming over the years in
370/Assembler, Cobol, Fortran, RPG, PL/1 and QuickBasic. Out of all of those
languages, my all-time favorites are Assembler, RPG and QuickBasic (Fortran
has many similarities to Basic).
I am writing a little daily reminder program for myself, because I have
never been completely satisfied with the many reminder programs which I have
tested over the years. The program is almost complete and I have really been
enjoying the process of learning Liberty Basic. I told my wife that writing
code again is very relaxing for me. Of course, if I was forced to do it for
40 hours a week, that would probably be a different story.
The link to Liberty Basic is:
http://www.libertybasic.com
The company also publishes a completely free Basic compiler called Just
Basic. I know that it has limitations over the full version of the product
and I have not tested it with Jaws, though I would assume that the
accessibility should be similar.
The link to Just Basic is:
http://www.justbasic.com
If you decide to get into Liberty Basic, contact me off-list and we can
chat.
Oh yes, the cost of Liberty Basic is $60. If you send them an email and tell
them where you heard about the product, they will send you a link to receive
a $10 discount.
Good luck,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Duck" <l...@csdconsulting.biz>
To: "Jaws List" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 11:06 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Programming in old BASIC
Hello,
Is there a basic interpreter that will run under Windows 8 and will work
with JAWS? Any flavor of basic will do. I'm talking about the old text
based BASIC from the 1970s and 1980s like Integer BASIC, Applesoft Basic,
QBASIC, CBM BASIC. I had a lot of fun with it back then and thought I
would
like to play around with it again.
Thanks,
Scott Duck
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