GETTING THE BASIX FANZINE

The Basix Fanzine comes out monthly or bi-monthly depending on the number of submissions is receive. Here is a list where I release the current issues

Website

http://www.come.to/basixfanzine

Mailing List

News Groups

• alt.lang.basic
• alt.games.rpg.dev.qbasic
• alt.lang.powerbasic
• comp.lang.basic.misc
• comp.lang.basic.powerbasic
• comp.os.msdos.programmer
• comp.programming
• fr.comp.lang.basic
• microsoft.public.basic.dos

USEFUL BASIC WEBSITES

Compilers

-PowerBASIC (also FirstBasic, PB/DLL and PB/CC): http://www.powerbasic.com
-EMS (old MS compilers): http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/
-Provantage (old MS compilers): http://www.provantage.com
-BASM: http://www.users.uswest.net/~sdiggins/basm.html
 

BASIC code

-The Beginners Basic Homepage: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~basic/
-QBasic.com: http://www.qbasic.com
-ABC Packets (bi-monthly collections of useful BASIC code): http://basicguru.com/abc
-PowerBasic Archives: http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pb.html
-QBasic Programming Corner: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/9964/qbasic.html
-The QBasic Site: http://hem.passagen.se/hedsen
-DMAPLAYH.BAS (WAV player): http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~horie/project.html
-Alex Warren's BASIC page: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dewarr/basic.htm

Libraries

-Zephyr Software (SVGA Library): http://www.zephyrsoftware.com
-QMIDI (MIDI player): http://members.tripod.com/~jdorland/qmidi/

Reference

-Ralf Brown's Interrupts List: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html (also available at http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm)
-Programmers' File Formats Collection: http://www.wotsit.org
-Basix Fanzine: http://come.to/basixfanzine

If any of the sites disappear or move address, email me
 

GETTING HOLD OF BASIC

QBasic:
QBasic is free and available on DOS disks (versions 5.0 and up), the Windows 95/98 CDROMs, and within http://www.microsoft.com/windows/download/olddos.exe.

Commercial Microsoft BASICs:
You can order new and used copies of QuickBASIC, PDS 7.x, VBDOS, etc. online at  http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/http://www.provantage.com

PowerBasic:
You can buy PowerBasic, FirstBasic, PB/DLL and PB/CC from http://www.powerbasic.com.

OmniBasic
http://www.omnibasic.com/

Liberty Basic (for Windows)
http://www.liberty-basic.com/

If you know of any other compilers or would like to advertise yours here, send an email to Basix_Fanzine@yahoo.com