Chipmunk Basic is a
freeware interpreter for the
BASIC programming language
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maintained by Ron Nicholson.
Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the
Macintosh and has been ported to
Linux and
Microsoft Windows
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. The "windowed" Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands. It also has
object-oriented capabilities.
The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for
Palm OS, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) was based on a public domain,
Pascal
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implementation by David Gillespie.
In January 2015, a
Cocoa version was released that may lack features from the older Carbon-based
OS X
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port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2118, published Aug 31, 2019.
References
External links and/or references
Ron's Basic Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Pagepublic domain source code for the original Chipmunk BasicChipmunk Basic
Tasks implemented in Chipmunk Basic o
rosettacode.org
BASIC interpreters
Free compilers and interpreters
BASIC programming language family
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