cbmbasic を Homebrew でインストール

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• cbmbasic

プロジェクトの歴史

The official README describes cbmbasic as a 100% compatible version of Commodore's Microsoft BASIC 6502 as found on the Commodore 64, but implemented natively rather than by emulating 6502 code. The public GitHub repository was created in 2014.

採用の歴史

The README documents testing on Mac OS X, Debian Linux, and Windows NT-era Visual Studio toolchains, while supplied package facts show packaging in Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix. Its audience is retro-computing users who want Commodore BASIC available as a normal host executable.

使われ方

Users can run cbmbasic interactively, pass an ASCII BASIC file on the command line, or add a hashbang line to run BASIC programs as Unix scripts. The README also documents a plugin-style extension path for additional statements and functions.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

cbmbasic is a small package-manager gem: installing it drops a historically recognizable 8-bit BASIC dialect into a modern shell, with no emulator stack. It matters less as infrastructure and more as a portable preservation and scripting curiosity.

タイムライン

• 2014: Public GitHub repository created.
• 2026: Repository metadata showed recent activity and an unarchived project.

Related projects

• The README ties cbmbasic directly to Commodore BASIC V2, Microsoft BASIC 6502, the Commodore 64, and optional ANSI-style extensions documented in the repository.

ソース

• https://api.github.com/repos/mist64/cbmbasic
• https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic
• https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic#readme
• https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic/blob/master/ANSI_Extension.md
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cbmbasic.json