Chipmunk Basic is a

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interpreter for the

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maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the

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and has been ported to

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and

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. The "windowed" Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands. It also has

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capabilities. The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for

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, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) was based on a public domain, Pascal implementation by David Gillespie. In January 2015, a Cocoa version was released that may lack features from the older Carbon-based

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port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2210, published Nov 11, 2022.

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
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