John You bring back memories when you mentioned Assembler. Those were the days you were really a programmer and had to deal with Core Dumps and your handy Assembler Green Card. Did you ever hear of AutoCoder, I am really dating myself.
John (Started my career as an Assembler programmer) -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of John M. Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 1:22 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Programming in old BASIC 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 > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
