2020-05-22 03:42:31

This just happened today. For those who know what GWBasic is and want to get it running on any modern platform in five minutes…your dreams are about to be thrown in the back of a garbage truck and compacted. The whole thing is written in 8088 Assembly, which makes sense for something written in 1983.

For those who have no idea what this is, it's a version of the BASIC programming language released by Microsoft in 1983. It shipped with various versions of MS-DOS, and accordingly, many programs and games were written with it.

Link to blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandl … -gw-basic/