After reading the article
Why Johnny can't code, I developed an urge to code in one of the original unstructured line programming varieties of
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) (as opposed to Visual BASIC or an alternative structured programming language) on
Mac OS X. I once wrote a checkbook accounting program in N80-BASIC on the old
NEC PC-8001 mkII, and would like to rewrite it in a line programming BASIC language on Mac OS X.
The article mentioned
Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS, which piqued my interest--I am definitely going to get my hands wet with this one over the coming weekend.
Nevertheless, I'd still rather nostalgically rather program in either NEC's N80-BASIC or Apple's
Applesoft BASIC. Does anybody know where I can find an emulator for one of these varieties of BASIC that will run on Mac OS X on a PowerPC processor (without requiring an NEC PC-8001 mkII or Apple II system unit to create a ROM image)?
-- DekuDekuplex
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