Project Summary
A free, cross-platform emulator for the GW-BASIC family of interpreters.
PC-BASIC is a free, cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC, Advanced BASIC (BASICA), PCjr Cartridge Basic and Tandy 1000 GWBASIC. It interprets these BASIC dialects with a high degree of accuracy, aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility. PC-BASIC emulates the most common video and audio hardware on which these BASICs used to run. PC-BASIC runs plain-text, tokenised and protected .BAS files. It implements floating-point arithmetic in the Microsoft Binary Format (MBF) and can therefore read and write binary data files created by GW-BASIC.
In a Nutshell, PC-BASIC - A free, cross-platform emu...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 14 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2013
ending with its most recent commit 14 days ago
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