Community QBasic

Rebooting the QBasic we all know and love!

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Project maintained by Cory Smith

Differences

In the process of building QBasic, there will be decisions made that affect potential compatibility with other implementations of BASIC.

Dartmouth

References: Documentation circa May 1964 and October 1964

MBASIC

Reference: MICROSOFT BASIC by Ken Knecht

• The PRINT statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to QBasic’s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.

Microsoft GW-BASIC

Reference: GW-BASIC 3.23.

• The PRINT statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to QBasic’s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.

Microsoft QBasic

Reference: QBasic 1.1.

• The PRINT statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to QBasic’s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.