Jim Hall [22.05.2020 14:17]:
> As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and
> compilers with equivalent or better functionality, so I don't know that
> we need to add GW-BASIC. I'm not a BASIC programmer, so I'm open to
> suggestion on this. There's pros and cons either
Hello Ralf,
But still, nobody should get their knickers in a twist just yet, as it
is an older version of GW-BASIC from 1983, while the latest version
(3.23) is from 1988. And the license kind of disallows to re-use the
code from the files, similar to that of the DOS 1.x/2.0 source they
On at 2020-05-22 07:58 -0700, Ralf Quint wrote:
> And the license kind of disallows to re-use the
> code from the files, similar to that of the DOS 1.x/2.0 source they
> published last year...
That's incorrect. Note that in the blog post they're referring to
"re-open-sourcing" the old MS-DOS
On 5/22/2020 5:17 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and
compilers with equivalent or better functionality, so I don't know
that we need to add GW-BASIC. I'm not a BASIC programmer, so I'm open
to suggestion on this. There's pros and cons
On 5/22/2020 5:10 AM, Deposite Pirate wrote:
This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta
assembler to generate assembler for various processor architectures and this
meta assembler is apparently not available. So unless someone goes through the
pain of reverse
I think you're wrong dpirate. I haven't had time to test, but, I would
expect [0] to be able to use MASM & LINK from MS-DOS 2.0 [1] to build
this. I plan to throw some cycles at this.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269345
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0/bin
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Deposite Pirate wrote:
This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta
assembler to generate assembler for various processor architectures and
this meta assembler is apparently not available. So unless someone goes
through the pain of reverse
It looked like this was the x86 output of the meta compiler. I'm going to
try to coax the Watcom Assembler into building it this evening.
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:38 AM Deposite Pirate
wrote:
> This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta
> assembler to generate
This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta
assembler to generate assembler for various processor architectures and this
meta assembler is apparently not available. So unless someone goes through the
pain of reverse engineering this meta assembler this is pretty much
I saw that! Interesting to see Microsoft releasing more stuff as open
source, including more of their DOS catalog. I'd really like to see them
release Word for DOS source code too.
As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and
compilers with equivalent or better
Hey Folks!
How are you doing?
Microsoft just open sourced gw-basic
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/
the source code on github
https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
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