Yabasic runs under any modern version of Windows, from Windows XP to Windows 10. For Windows XP however, you will probably need to download the zipfile, see below; for later versions of Windows, this is how to install:
The setup-program does the following:
To remove yabasic, go to the control-panel and click on the software-icon: You will find an entry for deleting yabasic.
If anything goes wrong please send me a mail: mail@yabasic.de
For Windows XP you may install yabasic from its zip-file:
Starting from version 2.90.5 yabasic, is build with Visual Studio 2022, which unfortunately does no longer support creating binaries for Windows XP. If you still use this platform, you might be interested in trying yabasic-2.90.4.zip or yabasic-2.90.4-setup.exe, which should still work with Windows XP.
If, for any reason, you need one of the previous versions of yabasic, you may find them here:
This might e.g. be helpful, if your virus-scanner does not trust the latest version yet.
And please note, that you may also easily guess the download-url for any Version of yabasic: Instead of left-clicking the link, do a right-click and choose "Copy Link" (or similar, depending on your browser). Then paste this copied link into the address-bar of your browser and edit accordingly, e.g. change the version number 2.90.5 into 2.90.2. For this to work, the old binaries must still exist unpurged in the download-folder of the site. So for very old versions, your mileage may vary.
This is how to download and install the binary linux-i586-package of yabasic for:
For redhat-based systems (e.g. fedora, redhat, suse, centos) you need the rpm package (see below).
For debian-based systems (e.g. ubuntu, debian) you need the deb package (see below).
To remove yabasic type sudo rpm -e yabasic or sudo dpkg --remove yabasic.
If you have any problems, please send me a mail: mail@yabasic.de.
Compiling yabasic requires a C-Compiler (typically gcc) as well as the libraries and header-files for ncurses and x11 (typically named ncurses, ncurses-devel and xorg-x11-devel). To compile yabasic in your home-directory proceed like this:
Yabasic compiles under HPux, Solaris and linux, but chances are high, that users of other mainstream Unixes will have no problems. If anything goes wrong please send me a mail: mail@yabasic.de, including:
Then I will try to find and fix the problem.
If you'd like to get the Windows specific files (including the sources of the installation program), you may checkout the git-repository as described below.
If you would like to modify yabasic for your own needs or add patches to its sources, you should clone its git-repository at github.