I can't actually remember, did qbasic (1.1) even run on 386?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I can't actually remember, did qbasic (1.1) even run on 386?

[crowdagger@corneill.es]

@eniko my dad had a 386 with Qbasic (gorilla.bas the goat) so i'd say yes but maybe not this version?

[randamumaki@mstdn.social]

@eniko As someone who ran qbasic on a 286, I would assume so. I don't recall what version qbasic was at the time.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@eniko
I want to say yes, but it's possible I had switched to PowerBasic before I got a 386.

[jenny753@indiepocalypse.social]

@eniko Yes! I personally ran QBASIC on a monochrome IBM PS/2 8086 all-in-one back when.

[cammerman@mstdn.social]

@eniko I ran QBasic on an old 8088 my dad rescued from the trash bin at work when I was in high school back in the late 90s.

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@RandamuMaki Ditto; I ran qbasic on a 286 PS/2 so it definitely should run on a 386. Not sure what version.

@eniko

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@eniko yes

[deshipu@fosstodon.org]

@eniko It ran on my 80088, so yes.

[feufochmar@porygon.feuforeve.fr]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place according to the wikipédia page, QBasic can technically run on 8086/8088 processors, with MS-DOS 3.20 as the minimal required version of DOS. In practice however, the amount of memory required by QBasic may be too large for computers using those processors.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@mkj @RandamuMaki @eniko I can personally attest to running Qbasic on a 16MHz 286 with DOS 6.22. I played plenty of Gorillas and Nibbles for sure.

As others have noted, it technically could run even on an 8088 though. It basically had no real requirements in itself, just whatever one made with it might have higher requirements.

Some versions of QBasic can make an exe file. I'm not sure to what extent this is actually "compiled" but it might potentially reduce runtime requirements somewhat?