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BASIC-256 Portable 0.9.6.61 Development Test 1

mjashby
Developer
- April 27, 2011 - 4:14pm

Application: BASIC-256
Category: Education
Licence: Open Source
Description: BASIC-256 is an Open Source version of the BASIC programming language specifically designed to teach anybody (especially middle and high-school students) the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps you to easily see how program flow-control works. It also has a built-in graphics mode which lets you draw pictures on screen in minutes; and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

Download BASIC-256Portable_0.9.6.61_Development_Test_1.paf.exe [4.92MB download / 15.2MB installed]
(MD5: 4db9db59a58a6d3cc6013166ddc4c4f8)

Release Notes:

Development Test 1 (2011-04-27): Initial release


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OMG

Basic!!! my very first programming language (on my TI99/4A)

Got to take a look at this one when I have time Smiling

Signature line no longer used, better to be safe than sorry.

TI99

the pictures ...

I spent hours making those flow charts. Good times.

Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.

Nostalgia

A healthy dose of nostalgia does you good. I recommend two spoonfuls per day!

Mervyn

tested

The program runs absolutely fine, but the following file is added to the system, and not removed after closing the app:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\inpout32.sys

Also a number of registry keys under
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\inpout32\
and
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\inpout32\
referring to this file are not removed.

The following keys are also left behind:

HKU\S-1-5-21-1606980848-884357618-1644491937-1004\Software\BASIC-256 Consortium\BASIC-256 IDE\Main\Size: "@Size(691 537)"
HKU\S-1-5-21-1606980848-884357618-1644491937-1004\Software\BASIC-256 Consortium\BASIC-256 IDE\Main\Pos: "@Point(199 87)"

Thought you might want to know this.

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Forgot to mention I'm using Windows XP SP3, with administrator rights.

dirk

Hello there!

Is this app still alive?

dirk

Apparently as dead as a

Apparently as dead as a Dodo... A pity.

dirk