{"id":57562,"date":"2021-06-21T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57562"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:00:35","slug":"why-i-love-programming-on-freedos-with-gw-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57562","title":{"rendered":"Why I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/retro_old_unix_computer-2.png\" width=\"1041\" height=\"585\" alt=\"Old UNIX computer\" title=\"Old UNIX computer\"><\/p>\n<p>When I was growing up, it seemed every &#8220;personal computer&#8221; from the TRS-80 to the Commodore to the Apple let you write your own programs in the Beginners&#8217; All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC#:~:text=BASIC%20(Beginners'%20All-purpose,at%20Dartmouth%20College%20in%201964.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BASIC<\/a>) programming language. Our family had a clone of the Apple II called the Franklin ACE 1000, which\u2014as a clone\u2014also ran AppleSoft BASIC. I took to AppleSoft BASIC right away and read books and magazines to teach myself about BASIC programming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/21\/6\/freedos-gw-basic\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up, it seemed every &#8220;personal computer&#8221; from the TRS-80 to the Commodore to the Apple let you write your own programs in the Beginners&#8217; All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programming language. Our family had a clone of the Apple II called the Franklin ACE 1000, which\u2014as a clone\u2014also ran AppleSoft BASIC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}