List of BASIC dialects by platform

There are more dialects of BASIC than there are of other programming languages. In many earlier home computers, a BASIC interpreter came included as standard. BASIC has been frequently used as a beginner's programming language and for writing computer games.

List of BASIC dialects for multiple platforms

• Alvyn BASIC
• BASIC/Z (or ZBASIC ) (CP/M, MDOS)
• BBC BASIC — Originally for the Acorn/BBC Micro, but has since been ported to RISC OS, Tiki 100, Cambridge Z88, Amstrad NC100, CP/M, ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and many others [1]. A GPL clone of BBC BASIC named Brandy written in portable C is also available.
• BlitzBasic — Fast compiler, Game programming language. For the Amiga and Windows. Windows version with DirectX support
• Bywater BASIC (aka bwBASIC) — Basic-Interpreter for MS-DOS and POSIX. Is a bit like GWBasic.
• CBASIC (successor of BASIC-E) (CP/M, MS-DOS)
• Chipmunk Basic (Apple Macintosh, CLI ports for Win32, GNU/Linux; copyrighted freeware)
• Extended Color BASIC (TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32/64)
• FreeBASIC — An almost 100% QuickBASIC compatible Win32 Open source language (DOS, MS Windows and GNU/Linux) (GPL)
• GFA BASIC — Was originally conceived on the Atari ST where it became one of the most popular BASICs for that platform. Was later ported to the Amiga, MS-DOS and Windows.
• HiSoft Basic (Atari ST, ZX Spectrum)
• HotBasic (Win32, Linux)
• KBasic — based on Qt. A commercial BASIC for Microsoft Windows and Linux
• Mallard BASIC — Similar to Locomotive BASIC and ran on the Amstrad PCW and ZX Spectrum +3 under CP/M
• Microsoft BASIC (overview of Microsoft BASIC variants) (many microcomputer platforms)
• PowerBasic — Efficient commercial basic compiler for DOS and Windows (successor of Turbo BASIC) — With Compiler. (MSDOS, Win32)
• PureBasic — Cross-plattform application development language. Fast compiled basic with many functions. Available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, AmigaOS and Mac OS (in development).
• RapidQ is a free BASIC that borrowed from Visual Basic. Useful for graphical surfaces. Works to a large extent with QuickBasic instructions. It is possible to write programs for Windows, Linux, Solaris/Sparc and HP/UX. (Cross-platform, free, no longer being developed). Semi-oo interpreter. Includes RAD IDE.
• RealBASIC — Platform independant BASIC. Object-oriented Visual Basic-like Basic variant for Macintosh, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
• sdlBasic free multiplatform BASIC. Based on the core of wxBasic, but uses the SDL library.
• SmallBASIC — A small Open source GPL-ed BASIC Interpreter that runs on DOS, PalmOS, Windows, Linux etc..
• True BASIC (MS-DOS, MS Windows, Apple Macintosh)
• wxBasic is an open source GPL BASIC interpreter based on the platform independant wxWidgets toolkit library. For Linux and Windows.
• XBasic — Open Source-Compiler with a GUI-designer (for Windows and Linux)
• Yabasic — Small Interpreter. (for Linux, Windows and Playstation 2). (GPL)

BASIC extensions

• Lightning Extended BASIC — This patched Mallard BASIC to allow sophisticated graphics (for the time) to be drawn on screen, saved to disc, printed, et cetera.

List of BASIC dialects for a single platform

Microsoft Windows

• DarkBASIC & DarkBASIC Professional — Efficient compiler for game programming.
• Envelop — Visual Basic 3 clone.
• Ethos Basic — ethosBASIC is a new BASIC development system designed to create computer games.
• IBasic — With WinAPI and DirectX support.
• JustBasic
• Liberty BASIC — a Bytecode-Interpreter similar to Visual Basic.
• Profan — A user friendly interpreted language.
• Visual Basic — Microsofts object oriented Basic-Variant. A dialect with a rapid application development for BASIC.
• Visual Basic .NET — implementation within the .NET-Framework from Microsoft.

DOS on PC compatibles

• ASIC
• GBasic — Interpreter With many graphics routines.
• IBM Cassette BASIC — Built in to the first IBM PCs. Ran independently of DOS and used audio cassettes as a storage medium.
• BASICA — "BASIC Advanced" (Advanced BASIC, available in ROM on IBM PCs) (later disk based versions for PC-DOS)
• GW-BASIC (BASICA compatible; independent of IBM ROM routines). Came with versions of MS-DOS before 5.0
• Moonrock Basic Compiler — Small Compiler.
• MOLE Basic — Merty's Own Language Extension Basic.
• QBASIC — Came with versions of MS-DOS from 5.0 to 6.22.
• QuickBasic — Extended QBasic Variant (to be more precice, QBasic is a reduced QuickBasic) . Was the commercial version of Qbasic. Came with a compiler.
• Revelation BASIC (MS-DOS)
• Turbo Basic A commercial BASIC compiler for DOS from Borland. (successor of BASIC/Z ) (see PowerBASIC)
• UBasic — Interpreter With many mathematical routines.

Linux / Unix

• Gambas — A rapid application development environment fot BASIC under Linux KDE from Benoit Minisini . Similar approach as Visual Basic.
• Gnome Basic is a project to develop a Visual Basic compatible clone BASIC for Gnome. During the course of development, the project was discontinued, and VB.NET support for Mono was dropped.
• HBasic — Object-oriented open source Basic Integrated development environment. HBasic based on Qt IDE and a BASIC Dialect. Similar approach as Visual Basic.
• Phoenix Object Basic — A free BASIC that includes a GUI builder.

Mac OS

• FutureBASIC
• MS BASIC for Macintosh

AmigaOS

• ABasiC — Relatively limited. Initially provided with Amigas by MetaComCo.
• Amiga BASIC — Somewhat easier than ABasiC , see MS BASIC for Macintosh .
• AMOS BASIC — A version of BASIC for the Amiga designed for game programming. A descendant of STOS BASIC on the Atari ST.

Atari TOS

• ST BASIC — The BASIC that came with the Atari ST
• FaST Basic
• Omikron Basic — In Germany it was bundled with new Atari STs for a long time.
• STOS BASIC A version of BASIC for the Atari ST designed for game programming. Predecessor of AMOS BASIC on the Amiga.

Java enabled mobile phones

• Mobile BASIC

PalmOS

• NS Basic — IDE and Bytecode-Interpreter.
• HotPaw Basic (aka yBasic, nee cbasPad Pro) — Interpreter with GUI and sound funtions.

Pocketviewer (CASIO pda)

• OWBasic — Fast compiler/interpreter system, Open-Source
  • http://pandora.inf.uni-jena.de/p/d/noo/owbasic/basic.html

Commodore VIC-20, C64 and other CBM 8-bit machines

• Commodore BASIC — Was integrated in the ROM of CBM's 8-bit computers. Built on an early version of 6502 Microsoft BASIC.
• geoBASIC — BASIC for use with GEOS

BASIC extensions

• BASIC 8.0 — Third-party extension of the Commodore 128's CBM BASIC 7.0
• Graphics BASIC — Third-party extension of CBM BASIC 2.0 on the C64.
• Simons' BASIC — An improved BASIC for the C64, loaded from disk or cartridge.
• Super Expander (VIC-1211) — CBM's extension of CBM BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20.
• Super Expander 64 — Ditto, for the C64.

Atari, 400/800/XL/XE and other 8-bit computers from Atari

• Atari BASIC (aka Sheperdson BASIC) — The built in ROM-BASIC-Interpreter in the Atari 8-bit family of computers (eg. Atari 800XL)
• Atari Microsoft BASIC
• BASIC A+
• Turbo Basic XL — A freeware BASIC interpreter and compiler for the Atari 8-bit family — based on ATARI BASIC. Even the 'slow' Turbo-BASIC interpreter was about four times as fast as the built in BASIC. Written by Frank Ostrowski — the person who would go on to develop who went on to develop GfA-BASIC. Came from Happy Computer.
• BASIC XE

Apple I, II, III

• Integer BASIC — Steve Wozniak's own creation. Was originally known simply as "Apple BASIC". For the BASICs available at the time, it was extremely fast and memory-efficient. Only supported integers. Came as standard on the Apple I and original Apple II
• Applesoft BASIC — Based on the same Microsoft code that Commodore BASIC was based on. Standard on the [[Apple II+]] and Apple II Europlus .
• Apple Business BASIC

Amstrad CPC

• Locomotive BASIC — Built into the ROM of the Amstrad CPC.

CP/M

• BASIC-E (aka 'submarine BASIC') (CP/M)
• OBASIC — From Microsoft.
• MBASIC — Further development of OBASIC, also from Microsoft. MBasic was one of the BASICs developed from Microsoft. Came with a line editor), that for example ran under CP/M.

TRS-80

• Color BASIC (Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, aka CoCo)
• TRS-80 Level  I BASIC (TRS-80) (based on TinyBASIC )
• TRS-80 Level II BASIC (Tandy/Radio-Shack TRS-80) (based on Microsoft BASIC)
• Microsoft Level III BASIC (Tandy/Radio-Shack TRS-80)

Texas Instruments (TI 99/4A)

• TI-BASIC (Texas Instruments programmable calculators)
• TI BASIC (Texas Instruments TI 99/4A) (note: no hyphen)
• TI Extended BASIC (ditto)

Basic dialects for video game consoles

• Atari 2600 Basic Programming (Atari 2600 video game console)
• PSX Chipmunk BASIC — BASIC for the PlayStation
• SmartBASIC (Coleco Adam)
• BasiEgaXorz — BASIC for the Sega Genesis

Embedded BASICs / BASIC-based scripting languages

• Caché Basic (One of the two scripting languages in Caché Database)
• LotusScript (Lotus Notes)
• ScriptBasic — a scripting language variant of BASIC. (Win32 and GNU/Linux) (released under the Lesser General Public License aka LGPL)
• StarOffice Basic (aka StarBasic) (OpenOffice, StarOffice)
• VBScript (MS ASP, MS Windows with WSH)
• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) (MS Office on MS Windows and Apple Macintosh)
• WordBasic (versions of MS Word before MS Word 97)

Other / unknown / unsorted BASIC dialects

• Altair BASIC (MITS Altair, S-100; Microsoft's first product)
• Atom BASIC — Acorn Atom
• B32 Business Basic (Data General Eclipse MV, UNIX, MS-DOS)
• BASIC09 (OS-9 and OS-9 68K on Motorola 6809 and 68K CPUs, respectively)
• BASCOM (BASIC compilers for the 8051 and AVR chips)
• BASIC-11 (DEC PDP-11, RSX-11)
• BASIC-PLUS (DEC PDP-11: RSTS/E)
• BASIC Plus 2 (DEC PDP-11: RSTS/E, RSX-11)
• BASICODE (KC85)
• Business Basic — A name given collectively to the variants of BASIC which were specialised for business use on mini-computers in the 1970s.
• Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS
• Dartmouth BASIC (see also True BASIC)
• Data General Business Basic (Data General Nova and later DG minicomputers)
• DEC BASIC for OpenVMS
• GeoBASIC (Leica TPS 1000/1100 surveying stations)
• HP BASIC (developed by HP to control electronics instruments through GPIB interfaces)
• HP BASIC for OpenVMS (originating from DEC's BASIC-PLUS-2 for RSX-11/M)
• HTBasic (TransEra's extension of HP's own HP BASIC)
• Luxor Basic (Luxor ABC80)
• MAI Basic Four Business Basic (misc. minicomputers)
• MBASIC (Microsoft BASIC for CP/M)
• MSX BASIC (MSX)
• N88-BASIC (Old NEC PC8801/9801) (Japan's most popular BASIC based on Microsoft's one)
• Northstar BASIC (Processor Technology, Northstar, later adapted to x86 as Bazic '86)
• PBASIC — A BASIC designed for use with the BASIC Stamp microcontroller
• PIC BASIC — BASIC designed for use with microcontrollers
• PICK BASIC or Databasic an extended basic language intergrated in the Pick Database and variations of it.
• SAM BASIC (SAM Coupé)
• Sharp BASIC (Sharp pocket computers)
• Sinclair BASIC (ZX80, ZX81/TS1000, ZX Spectrum)
• SuperBasic (Sinclair QL)
• THEOS Multi-User Basic
• Tiny BASIC (any microcomputer, but mostly implemented on early S-100 machines)
• VAX BASIC for OpenVMS
• Vilnius BASIC
• Watcom Basic