There were questions about Basic on the Mac a while back. Here are a
couple of relevant items. Chipmunk Basic is an interpreted Basic for
PowerMacs. SC Basic is compiled. It generates 68K (old Mac) code, which
presumably would run on any Mac. I don't know if it runs on PowerMacs,
but the web page no doubt wil tell you. Both of these are FREE.
I have put together an html reference manual for Chipmunk Basic,
which is a freeware interpreted Basic provided by Ronald Nicholson.
He describes it as "an old-fashioned Basic interpreter", but he keeps
adding features that are not very old-fashioned, like IAC, graphics
extensions, object-oriented type and class definition, domain name
resolution, and fast Fourier transform. Chipmunk Basic can be
downloaded from Mr. Nicholson's Chipmunk Basic Home Page,
The reference manual is also available there, but in a simplified form
without enhanced navigation. I have posted the complete package to
alt.source-code.mac.
Crimson Compilers are pleased to announce SC Basic, a new free Basic
Compiler for the Macintosh platform.
SC Basic is a complete development tool which produces compact 68K code and
has a low memory and disk requirement.
SC Basic may be downloaded from the Crimson Compilers home page at: