NMH BASIC: A Compact BASIC Interpreter from the Early 1990s
By
AlexeyBrin
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Summary
NMH BASIC is a small BASIC interpreter written in the early 1990s that the author considers one of their coolest programs due to its compact size (under 5KB) and functionality. The article provides download links for versions 1.2 and 2.1, documentation, and covers various aspects including programs written in NMH BASIC, implementation details, quirks, arrays, input/output, conditional statements, and listings. The content reflects nostalgia for early programming projects and retro computing.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThis is a small BASIC interpreter that I wrote in the early 1990s.
For some reason I think it is one of the coolest programs I have ever written.
Maybe because it is just a bit under 5K bytes large and still does something useful.
Maybe it is just nostalgia.
One of the more interesting programs I have written in NMH BASIC is a variant of
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