1. RE: .bas to ascii program ???
G'day all
jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> I used QBASIC.EXE and it got only garbage from lemonade.bas. I picked
> up lemonade.bas from some website. Maybe from a different computer
> world.
> To hell with it.
I hate to admit it, but I programmed in Gee-Dubbleya-Basic (and its
relatives MS Basic Compiler and MS Business Basic Compiler) for a
living a long time back, and I've still got a working GW-BASIC on my
Win ME thing. If you like, send me a copy of the .BAS program by
private mail and I'll see if I can get a plain text version of it
for you.
Regards
Tony
2. RE: .bas to ascii program ???
euphoria at carlw.legend.uk.com wrote:
> Most likely what you have is a GW-Basic program (the PC BASIC before
> QBASIC
> came along). There are (I guess) methods of decrypting your 'garbage'
> back
> into a BASIC program, but that would probably be illegal... The
> programmer
> will have tokenised his code for a reason.
encryption wasn't that commonplace back then, and that was just how most
early BASICs(BASICA, GW-BASIC, AppleSoft BASIC, etc) stored code
3. RE: .bas to ascii program ???
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tony Bucholtz wrote:
> jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> > I used QBASIC.EXE and it got only garbage from lemonade.bas. I picked
> > up lemonade.bas from some website. Maybe from a different computer
> > world.
> > To hell with it.
>
> I hate to admit it, but I programmed in Gee-Dubbleya-Basic (and its
> relatives MS Basic Compiler and MS Business Basic Compiler) for a
> living a long time back, and I've still got a working GW-BASIC on my
> Win ME thing. If you like, send me a copy of the .BAS program by
> private mail and I'll see if I can get a plain text version of it
> for you.
>
> Regards
> Tony
Thanks, but it's from the Atari world.
Jerry Story
