Bywater Basic
Description
A Basic interpreter that confirms to a subset of Minimal Basic (ECMA Standard ECMA-55 later copied as ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC). As ECMA-55 resembles vintage Street Basic implementations, BWB can be used to port vintage Basic listings without much problems, the other interesting thing about Bywater Basic is that it has support for console/shell commands that is pretty unique amongst modern interpreters. Bywater Basic is implemented in C.
The original author had previously announced a version 3 of the product that was to be released in early 2000, that version supposedly featured a greatly enhanced Basic implementation and a CGI scripting mode, but it appears this never saw the light of day.
Versions
- Current OS/2 version: Bywater Basic 2.50
Links
- ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/basic/bwbasic_os2.zip Bywater Basic 2.50
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwbasic/ Project homepage
License
- Original v.1.1 code is in the Public Domain, v2 was initially offered as commercial software but free for personal use and with downloadable source code, but v2.2 and later versions are released under the GNU GPL v2 License
Authors
- Ted A. Campbell (Original author)
- Jon Volkoff (v1 patches and v2.2 branch)
- Paul Edwards (Current maintainer)
- Mentore Siesto OS/2 port