GW-BASIC or Gee-Whiz BASIC was a dialect of BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq. GW-BASIC has a command line-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Dartmouth BASIC. It also includes function key shortcuts at the bottom of the screen. Like other early microcomputer versions of BASIC, GW-BASIC lacked many of the structures needed for structured programmings such as local variables, and GW-BASIC programs executed relatively slowly, due to the fact that it was an interpreted programming language. All program lines must be numbered; all non-numbered lines are considered to be commands in direct mode to be executed immediately. Program source files are normally saved in a binary compressed format with tokens replacing commands, with an option to save in ASCII text form.
The GW-BASIC command-line environment has commands to
RUN,LOAD,SAVE,LIST the current program, or quit to the operating SYSTEM; these commands can also be used as program statements. There is little support for structured programming in GW-BASIC. All IF/THEN/ELSE conditional statements must be written on one lineClick here Download Free GWBASIC executable
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Note: All versions above are for a 32-bit version of windows if GWBASIC not working for you, then you might have 64-bit windows, please refer below steps.
FOR 64 BIT OPERATING SYSTEMS:
(Win 7, Win8, Win 8.1, All version OS)
You need to download and install DOSBox first. Download
Make a folder in C Drive "GWBASIC" and place gwbasic3.exe in it.
Open DOSBox: Enter the following commands one by one:
mount c: c:\
c:CD GWBASIC
GWBASIC3
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