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QBasic on FreeDOS running in an emulator on a RaspberryPi?


I think RiscOS includes a pretty robust BASIC, and then you avoid the emulation overhead.

Qbasic is also a sort of weird situation-- modern in some ways, but sometimes feature and resource limited compared to other BASICs. It was a defeatured QuickBasic that they sort of expected users to graduate to the full product.


You sure you couldn't squeeze a few more layers of abstraction on there?


QBasic on FreeDOS running in a Raspberry Pi emulator in a Docker container over VNC on Kubernets running on Amazon EKS in several availability zones for five nines of abstraction nostalgia goodness.


You could have freedos run on a virtual machine? And emulate the raspi in the cloud, but that would be being silly.




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