JBasic is BASIC, written in Java.  JBasic is freely available under the GPL 2.0 license for non-commercial use.  Start by downloading the latest stable development copy of the user’s guide and the jar file at:

                    http://public.me.com/tomcole/JBasic/

See the “Downloading” tab above for more details on getting the source and executables.  Once you have a copy of the jar file, use your command line window (Terminal on Mac OS X, the cmd shell on Windows, etc.) to start the java application:

                    java -jar jbasic.jar

Type HELP at the prompt to get started digging around in the online documentation, or read through the PDF user’s guide at the above download location for more information.  And if you have any problems, feel free to email me at tomcole@users.sourceforge.net.

Check out the Blog section of this web site to track ongoing development activities for the next major release.