[HN Gopher] X11-Basic (1991-2020)
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X11-Basic (1991-2020)
Author : akkartik
Score : 67 points
Date : 2024-09-25 15:54 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (x11-basic.sourceforge.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (x11-basic.sourceforge.net)
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| > The interpreter (xbasic) can be used as a shell. It can run
| basic-scripts in all environments, p.ex. *.cgi-Scripts for
| handling web-input.
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| This is both terrifying and something I definitely want to play
| with.
| dhosek wrote:
| Back in the olden days, when you booted up a computer, you got
| dumped into what was essentially a BASIC shell. If your input
| didn't start with a line number it was interpreted immediately.
| Having only experienced that sort of environment, I didn't
| understand how programming languages like Pascal that didn't
| have line numbers worked.
| ok123456 wrote:
| There was also Basmark QuickBasic Compiler for Linux,
|
| https://archive.org/details/bqb49
| gabrielsroka wrote:
| 2022 https://github.com/kollokollo/X11Basic And
| https://codeberg.org/kollo/X11Basic
| eadmund wrote:
| I see from the latter link that the last update was in February
| 2024 -- glad that the project is still alive!
| _joel wrote:
| How have I lived for this long on the interwebs an never realised
| this was a thing?
| mmcgaha wrote:
| I thought the same thing. I would have loved to have known
| about this 30 years ago. If only there had been an o'reilly
| book.
| johnklos wrote:
| I had no idea that we could install third party software on
| TomTom car navigation systems until just now.
| buescher wrote:
| Now I want to know what the most hackable US model was.
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| I see old TomTom units in thrift stores and pass them by. Now
| I want to score one. Wild.
|
| This looks like fun:
| https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TTconsole
| buescher wrote:
| If you click through to the github, it's the same guy from
| X11-Basic. Looks like he wrote it for the ONE-V3.
| _joel wrote:
| > A WEB interface (via bloutooth and cgi-scripts) using a
| webserver.
|
| and serve cool warez
| donatj wrote:
| Oh yeah, I ran a location logger on mine for years until Google
| Maps location tracking popped up.
|
| Now that they're killing it... I don't think I'll go back to
| using a TomTom any time soon lol
| donatj wrote:
| > X11-Basic will compile on 64bit systems but it will not be 100%
| functional. X11-Basic internally uses 32bit pointers (-->
| VARPTR()). These are not compatible with 64bit. Some tricks have
| been implemented to make it work anyways, but do not expect 100%
| compatibility.
| behringer wrote:
| I recently acquired an SGI Indy and was wondering if there was a
| good BASIC for it. Will have to check this out and see if it
| compiles!
| buescher wrote:
| That would be fun. Give Iris Explorer a spin - the demos make
| any SGI seem like a supercomputer. (Better on an Indigo2 or
| Octane, but hey) I did real work in Octave + gnuplot on SGI
| machines of the era but I'd be surprised if recent versions
| compile.
| DaoVeles wrote:
| I have said it many times before. You could fill a library with
| all the problem that BASIC leads too. But at its core is a
| message that is missing a little from modern computing - the
| ability to jump in and just get something simple built quick. The
| idea that you control the machine even if it is slow and sludgy.
|
| This also goes a lot for the leap from command prompts to GUI's.
| You trade off control for functionality and that is not
| necessarily a bad thing. I just wish it was easier to get back to
| a middle path on this. Many have tried but it all seems a little
| too fragmented.
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