---------- Description (english) ----------------------
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,
Howard S. Wulf, Ken Martin and Jon Foster.
I recompiled bwBASIC from its original 3.20 sources, using
gcc v2.95 with only minor changes to the source code. Added
some custom makefiles for various CPU targets. Same source
easily recompiles under Linux and Windows, too. All you'd
need is gcc or mingw installed on the target system.
INSTALL
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1. copy C/bwbasic to C:
COPY C/bwbasic TO C:bwbasic
2. Make bwShell work:
COPY S/bwShell-Startup TO S:
3. Optionally, copy C/CLS to C:
Keep the original installation folder somewhere on your hard drive.
It contains docs and examples for using bwbasic.
Make sure that you have a decent version of ixemul.library available
on your system.
USAGE
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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 memory
run - 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 type shell "ls -l",
in Windows type shell "dir".
quit - exits bwbasic.
bye - does the same
Michael Bergmann, March 2023
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