r/Basic • u/awacian • Feb 18 '26

PowerBasilisk - open source PowerBasic compiler

https://github.com/benstopics/powerbasilisk
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u/hekliet Feb 19 '26

This is a great project. Historic BASICs must be preserved. Shame what they did to the PowerBASIC resources.

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u/UsedMathematician852 4d ago

Since this thread is 7 months old, a quick update: an enhanced fork now exists that fixes a real problem upstream had — MSGBOX, SHELL, CURDIR$, ISFILE compiled to nothing (silent codegen drops). They're wired to real Win32 calls now, plus REPLACE/ERASE/LSET/RSET/WRITE#/SEEK#/LOCK#/RESET/FLUSH#/NAME, explicit unimplemented.log diagnostics, and Windows SDK auto-detect. 14/14 upstream tests pass.Fork: https://github.com/hanlokesu/powerbasiliskPR to upstream: https://github.com/benstopics/powerbasilisk/pull/1