hoard-of-gwbasic

Hoard of GW-BASIC

This repository is a collection of programs, tutorials and other resources on GW-BASIC for the PC, Tandy and PCjr. It focuses on source code, supporting files and documentation only. Compiled binaries and sources in other BASIC dialects are generally omitted.

Materials from the following sources are included:

Programs

• KindlyRat’s Geocities page
• PeatSoft collection
• Leon Peyre’s Back to BASICs
• Brooks deForest’s Tandy 1000 EX/HX, PCjr videogames
• TVDog’s Tandy 1000 Archive
• Phillip Bigelow’s scientific programs
• Gary Peek’s BASIC source code archive
• S.A. Moore’s Classic BASIC Games page
• Thomas C. McIntyre’s GeeWhiz Collection
• IBM-PC BASIC samples from the MS-DOS source code

Tutorials and Documentation

• Microsoft GW-BASIC Manual: an online version of the original User’ Guide and User’s Reference.
• BASIC Training: a GW-BASIC tutorial by Steve Estvanik.
• Blast Off With BASIC: a GW-BASIC tutorial by Brian R. Page.
• Joseph Sixpack’s Last Book of GW-BASIC
• The BLUE Book about GW-BASIC and QuickBASIC: the excellent “BASIC Language User Essay” by Thomas C. McIntire is full of expert knowledge about GW-BASIC.

Further Resources

Other places to look for GW-BASIC material:

• cd.textfiles.com has tons of old shareware, among which some good GW-BASIC games.
• PC-SIG Library 8th Edition CD-ROM (April 1990) hosts many disk images and features a “live” DOS box.
• gw-basic.netlify.app is another page dedicated to GW-BASIC material, tutorials, downloads and further links.