The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C.
BWBASIC is an original creation of Ted A. Campbell, who stopped working on it in 1993. Since then it has received contributions from other programmers: Jon B. Volkoff, Paul Edwards and Howard S. Wulf.
Inside program, type:
help
- show all commands available.help commandname
- show help for a specific command.list
- list source code for the program currently in memoryrun
- executes the program in memory from the start.new
- deletes the program in memory and clears all variables.load filename
- loads an ASCII BASIC program into memory.save filename
- saves the current program into the file "filename" in ASCII format.shell "command"
- lets you run a SHELL or DOS command within bwbasic. For example, to list the contents of the current directory, in Linux typeshell "ls -l"
, in Windows typeshell "dir"
.quit
- exits bwbasic.
The official repository is located at SourceForge. However, all available versions were transfered to GitHub, in order to create a history with the modifications of all versions. Some compiled versions are also available in the Releases section, with their respective source code.