10Nov

Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows – now Open Source

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

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This is quite cool:

“Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language – it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs.”

Use this link to get to the download page and more information. Here’s more information and an implementation of Apple I Basic, too!

Oh the memories…. the hours spent in front of my trusty VIC20 typing off code from british computer magazines, or developing my own programs in 6502 assembler. Those were the days…

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