a GFA-Basic clone for Linux: X11-Basic

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With a little care, I found that you can build Markus Hoffmann's X11-Basic under Raspbian. Here's how I got it to build: Running X11-Basic (sorta kinda) on Raspberry Pi.

Neither of the compilers seem to work, and some of the interpreter's graphics demos look a little corrupted, but it runs well otherwise. GFA-Basic was very popular back in the day, and this seems to be a faithful and solid work-alike.

cheers,
Stewart

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Markus was good enough to fix some of the problems and upload a new tarball. I still can't get the bytecode compiler to do anything useful, but the interpreter and the native compiler work well. To build and install it:

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sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev tcsh libncurses5-dev xutils-dev libc6-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtool
# download the package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11-basic/files/latest/download?source=navbar
tar xvzf X11Basic-1.20.tar.gz
cd X11Basic-1.20
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
./configure
make
sudo make install

Update from the author: the bytecode compiler is probably obsolete in Linux.