# 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 constructs, 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:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/44680/showcase-your-language-one-vote-at-a-time/86385#86385

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 <s>your favorite text editor</s> 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.