FreeBASIC VS TIC-80

FreeBASIC Reviews

1. Jose Galeno    

   about 3 years ago
   Can Not to Comapre FREEBASIC is a COMPILER NOT AN IDE

   HAS IDE AS FBEdit, FBNP,WINFBE, VisualFB, etc

   🏁 Competitors: Visual Basic

   👍 Pros:    Compiler|32|64|Windows linux mac|Mingw32 and mingw64|Free to use|Binding to c, c++

TIC-80 Reviews

FreeBASIC mentions (5)

• Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux

  Outside of Microsoft created QB64: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64 - https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took Outside of Microsoft created Visual Basic IDE: - http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html - https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas Outside of Microsoft created FreeBasic: - https://freebasic.net. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript

  If you have linux or windows, you can try freebasic. I believe it has a qbasic compatibility mode. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are your opinions on modern BASIC dialects?

  Have you looked at https://freebasic.net/ and https://www.qb64.org/portal/ ? It's been ages since I actually wrote code in BASIC, but there do appear to be nice open-source options in the modern world. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How to compile a BASIC code in linux ?

  I used https://freebasic.net/ ages ago. Works fine. Source: about 3 years ago

• Blank Projects - Then And Now

  And here you can live though that pain again: https://freebasic.net/. Source: about 3 years ago

TIC-80 mentions (66)

• Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

  The Pico-8 is great, but https://tic80.com/ is really cool too. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Yoyozo (or, how I made a Playdate game in 39KB)

  Or its open source cousin TIC-80: http://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• PicoCalc

  I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0]. 0. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua

  Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... And just recently - a Python support was added. https://tic80.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago