Well Qbasic is basically free since it came with msdos from version 5 - Windows
98 /MSDOS 6.2

It's around on several web sites.

Versions 4-7.1 of Quick Basic are available too (free). Whether it is technically legal to download them is another matter.

You can try

http://www.qbcafe.net/english/index.....html~qbc_main

Found free QBasic. Won't work w/WinXP.

Many thanks to all who aided!

chuckles

Hi, don't quite understand what you mean by it is not working with Windows XP. It should work in a DOS environent which you can simulate in Windows XP. Of course, in any case, QBasic won't give you a Windows-like appearance.

You may try switching to the following versions of BASIC compilers/interpreters:

1. Just BASIC at http://www.justbasic.com/index.html
2. Xblite at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/xblite/
3. Small BASIC at http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/

Each of them has its own advantages. But small applications I encourage Small BASIC. And, by the way, you might need to modify the codes accordingly if the codes were originally written for QBasic.