bascat

bascat is a program to print out tokenized gwbasic .BAS files in ASCII. There are actually a fair amount of .BAS files out there in the default tokenized format, but you'd need a working GWBASIC/BASICA to see the source.

This is mostly a toy program that I'm using to help get familiar with Go, but it might be useful to someone.

Multiple Languages

The original version I did was in Go (in this branch). I did several other verisions in other languages (scala, java, kotlin, fsharp etc.), and most of them are on other branches of this repository.

Unprotect Feature

It was possible to save your file encrypted in GW-BASIC, and I found the decryption algorithm in the PC-BASIC project. So, I implemented that decryption scheme... and in some basic tests running GW-BASIC 3.23 in DOSBOX it does work.

Licesnse

I put this implementation under the MIT license

Referece

The documentation I used for the tokenized file format was here: http://chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/GW-BASIC-tokens.html.