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#QBIC

QBIC is QBasic's Interpreter for Codegolf. I made it to bring QBasic into the code-golfing arena. Working on it is a ton of fun. It provides a short-hand for QBASIC's expansive syntax and language contructs, and it adds a few tricks of its own.

The project can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0R1Jgqp8Gg4cVJCZkRkdEthZDQ?usp=sharing

It is built and run entirely in / through QBasic. There is (as of yet) no web-interpreter or IDE.

Samples of usage are here: Showcase of Languages

To get started with QBIC

1. Download the project to your computer
2. You probably need DOSBOX or similar to run it
3. Edit qbic-in.txt in your favorite text editor a text editor that supports QBasic's ASCII table. I use Notepad with the Western European / Windows-OEM character set.
4. Fire up QBasic, open and run QBIC.BAS
5. Enter command line parameters if necessary
6. QBIC will now run the interpreted QBasic for you.