You’ll just need a passing knowledge of DOS and how a filesystem works, but otherwise running in an emulator is straight forward, like running a virtual PC from ye olden times inside your fancy new toy.Ĭarlos Vazquez adds: The closest thing there is to a 64 bit gw basic is qb64 (a 64 bit clone of quick basic) i haven’t tested if qb64 runs Qbasic programs (Quickbasic could run them and even save them in binary form) ( QB64)Īka “How to convert gw-basic programs to exe extension?” Simply put: GW-BASIC.EXE cannot run directly on Windows!ĭon’t lose hope, because this is where emulators come in.ĭOSBox is the premier DOS emulator with the best support and works on multiple platforms. It’s a 16-bit DOS executable that uses processor instructions no longer supported in modern, 64-bit CPU’s / operating systems. GW-BASIC was last released in 1988 as you can see from any screenshot of its start screen.
Thomas Shaffner released Microsoft GW-BASIC User’s Guide and User’s Reference to the web and you can easily find copies of it.Īka “Where do I download GW-BASIC for Windows 7, 8, 10 … ?” gw-man.pdf: GW-BASIC User’s Guide and Reference for Kindle and other e-readers.gw-man.zip: GW-BASIC manual official documentation and full command reference.It is unsurprisingly unsupported, but still under copyright so it can’t be sold or distributed without permission. Microsoft created GW-BASIC version 3.23 in 1987 and that was the last official, commercial one.
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