Yabasic

Yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) is a BASIC programming language interpreter for the Win32 and Unix platforms, similar to the ROM-resident Commodore BASIC of the Commodore 64. It can handle monochrome line graphics, and has printing capability. It is also relatively small in file size at around 200 kilobytes.

A version of Yabasic is available for Sony's PlayStation 2. It comes free with the console in Europe and Australasia. The demo disc containing the Yabasic interpreter is a PAL disc and is not intended for the United States or Japanese PlayStation 2 markets. It is recommendable to have an additional USB-compatible keyboard for the PlayStation version of Yabasic because programming with a control pad is rather impractical. Yabasic programs created on a PlayStation can be stored on memory cards for later retrieval or swapping with friends.

A sample Yabasic Hello world program looks like this:

input "What is your name" $name
print "Hello " + $name

External links

• Yabasic Official Website – You can get the latest version of Yabasic here and information on it.