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The flushing after running a program is documented: > When entering direct mode, LPT1: (but not other printers) is flushed and its position is reset to 1. From the [`--lpt1`...

On the original machine it's about entering more into a BASIC line than the 80 (or 88) character limitation of the screen editor would allow with unabbreviated commands. The only...

I'm wondering why there is a garbage collection triggered by that BASIC line? Isn't assigning one string to another just copying the string descriptor, i.e. address and length from the...

The CHANGES file says: > 04/10/2024 Removed subprocess module. Use the Python built-in instead.

[FreeBASIC](https://freebasic.net/) started as a compiler for QuickBASIC, the successor of GW-BASIC. QuickBASIC can run most GW-BASIC programs as is. As the FreeBASIC dialect has evolved since then, you'll have to...

I can confirm this issue. The error is dereferencing a string at address &H1697 which isn't there anymore. That address is very close to the end of the program (&H1653)...