We only have bwbasic and Free BASIC in the FreeDOS software list, and they
are the only updated BASIC environments I know of. I don't code in BASIC
these days, so this isn't my area of expertise.
But Free BASIC is 32 bit. So I think bwbasic is the only one that meets
your requirements.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 5:50 PM David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote:
> As someone who would like to write code that can be easily understood by
> users of other 80s computer systems, I prefer to write my scripts in
> BASIC. I've been using Bywater BASIC from the FreeDOS distribution, and
> it's quite good up until you want to start considering the outside world.
>
> In my particular example, SHELL() is supposed to return the exit code of
> the program that you tell it to run, but it seems to always return 0.
>
> I tried my damnedest looking at the source code for this program, but it
> is perhaps the messiest code I have ever looked at (and I've looked at
> mathematicians' code which is a sight to behold). I spent at least 2
> hours digging and couldn't even find where the actual work was being
> done to execute these external commands, much less what is done with the
> exit code. I'll spare you my full rant about how bad it is in there.
>
> Anyway, are there any other decent BASIC interpreters to be found? My
> requirements are: a free software license, ability to run external
> commands, ability to run on 16-bit systems.
>
> Happy Hacking,
>
> David E. McMackins II
> Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
> Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)
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