Vintage BASIC and its source code are provided here free of charge via the BSD license. If you have any problems with or praise for Vintage BASIC, please let me know at lyle@vintage-basic.net. I could also use some help building binary packages for Linux and Mac.

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User's Guide

• Vintage BASIC User's Guide

Binary Versions

Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

• vintage-basic-1.0.1-win32.zip

Unzip it and add the bin directory to your PATH. Detailed instructions here.

Mac OS X (Intel)

• vintage-basic-1.0.1-osx-intel.zip

Unzip it and add the vintbas executable to your PATH. Detailed instructions here.

Generic Linux (Intel, 32-bit)

• vintage-basic-1.0.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.gz

Untar it and put it somewhere useful. E.g., move the bin and share directories to /usr/local, or put them in your home directory. Depending on your distribution, you may or may not have the required shared libraries. I compiled it on Ubuntu 8.10.

Source Version

• vintage-basic-1.0.1.tar.gz
• darcs repo at patch-tag
• Hackage page

You'll need GHC to compile the source. Note: There is a bug in GHC Version 6.10.1 on Windows that will cause your interpreter to freeze up when Ctrl-C is pressed at an INPUT prompt. You'll need to download a nightly build to get the fix for this. The binary build above has the fix.