Jul 15, 2013 For those interested and supporting legacy visual basic applications and need to install VB6 onto your windows 8.1 builds. Visual Basic 6 on Windows 8. Hi, There is no version of QBasic for Windows 8. You could try to find the executable somewhere on the net and run that in Dosbox, a 32 bit DOS emulator that you can. Mar 29, 2014 - GW Basic Free Download Latest Version Setup for windows. It is software to learn or practice low level language before C++, java, C sharp and others.

We had GW-Basic on an old 286 laptop. Later versions of 16-bit MSDOS came with QBasic. I did a web search and didn't find anything about a 32-bit version of GWBASIC.

I think it just ran because of the backward compatibility which was retained in 32-bit Windows versions. Unfortunately Microsoft decided not to support 16-bit apps on their 64-bit editions of WIndows.

I don't know if DOSBox will run it, but it seems that it should. You raise an interesting issue. I don't know if there is any traditional BASIC ('Visual' BASIC doesn't count) that will run under 64-bit Windows. If not then that's really unfortunate, because BASIC was the gateway for tons of people who got into programming.

I still don't know of any better programming language for beginners to learn from. It's also just plain practical for writing small programs. It used to be part of the preinstalled apps with DOS, ready for anybody to use. It was educational, dammit.

Java Httpclient File Example Java more. Oldbie Posts: 1171 Joined: 2013-1-24 @ 13:45. There may not be.

On recheck, I'm not sure my basix.exe & programs thereunder are 32-bit. May be 16-bit.

Originally written before Windows, but updated and edited under XP.. But, I can't locate NTVDM.exe on searching my 64-bit 8.1. Or anything else that looks helpful.

Shamino is right on GW-Basic. Over the years I wrote personal programs and a damn good baseball game (for use with APBA player cards) with color, action graphics and music (later unsupported). Newbie Posts: 3 Joined: 2014-7-27 @ 23:04. Shamino wrote:If not then that's really unfortunate, because BASIC was the gateway for tons of people who got into programming. I still don't know of any better programming language for beginners to learn from. It's also just plain practical for writing small programs.