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flomo | 16 days ago

Apparently PowerBasic was the successor to Borland TurboBasic and complied to a native executable. So this wasn't an interpreted 'line number' Basic like our kiddie computers. It also probably had the Borland Windows GUI stuff.

(However it wouldn't surprise me if older 'line number' programs still mostly worked. iirc VB6 also supported this.)

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benstopics|16 days ago

No line numbers but you can use numbers as goto labels. It uses Dynamic Dialog Tools which is a Win32 wrapper which most of my "job" is gutting out those calls, implementing Single Responsibility in functions and plugging in Electron UI. And trying not to break EVERYTHING...

flomo|16 days ago

Thanks for clarifying. Super smart approach to adopting legacy code to a modern interface.

Maybe I missed it, but are you still using the Powerbasic compiler or have you worked around that somehow?