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Re: Apple lle and BASIC



On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Bettablue wrote:

I have another question though. Is Apple BASIC compatible with programs written with another version of BASIC? IE, can I write a program on a PC of the same era and use on my lle? There are a lot of programs I have in Apple BASIC that I want to run on my IBM 5150 too.

Kindasorta. If it doesn't use Apple-specific stuff, it usually isn't that difficult to translate. The IBM dialect is fairly closely related to Apple's (both were written by Microsoft) so if you know both dialects (fpbasic and gwbasic) you can usually translate basic stuff from the Apple to the PC. If it uses PEEK, POKE or CALL though...

-uso.