ASIC programming language
- ASIC programming language
ASIC is a BASIC dialect and shareware compiler for MS-DOS systems. Written by Dave Visti of 80/20 Software, it achieved brief popularity in the 1990s as one of the few BASIC compilers legally available for download from BBSes. However, ASIC understood only a small subset of the BASIC language, with most versions having little or no support for logical operators, control structures, and floating-point arithmetic. These shortcomings are the reason for the software's tongue-in-cheek motto, "ASIC: It's almost BASIC!"
Notably, however, ASIC did feature a rudimentary integrated development environment and an RS-232 communications library for writing terminal and BBS software. The last release of ASIC, version 5.00, was more compatible with GW-BASIC and indeed offered a utility to convert GW-BASIC programs to ASIC syntax.
External links
* [ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/mirror/simtelnet/msdos/basic/asic500.zip ASIC 5.00] - Broken link (July 1, 2008)
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