Chipmunk Basic is a

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interpreter for the BASIC programming language 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 Microsoft Windows. 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 OS X port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2118, published Aug 31, 2019.

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Ron's Basic Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Pagepublic domain source code for the original Chipmunk BasicChipmunk Basic
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rosettacode.org
BASIC interpreters Free compilers and interpreters BASIC programming language family {{compu-lang-stub