Show HN Thoreau BASIC What if BASIC hadnt gone out of fashion?

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  • Thoreau BASIC has 64-bit memory, 24-bit graphics, sprites, mouse input, TCP/IP and HTTP.
  • It has a complete GM/GS wavetable with MIDI/WAV/FLAC/Opus playback, complex/quaternion/octonion values, a debugger, profiler, source tools, multicore PARFOR, and native x64 JIT compilation.
  • The same BASIC language runs as a normal Windows program or directly from UEFI firmware without an operating system.
Download Windows x64 ZIP UEFI x64 ZIP Plaintext documentation 3.2 release notes THOREAU_GM.TBGM losslessly compressed wavetable 513.5 MB 3.

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