QBasic 4.5 on Android
My father, who hung up his coding hat in the '80s, recently entered the golden years of retirement. One day, he mused about the simplicity and educational value of BASIC and wondered if there was a way to share its charm using today's technology. Specifically, he was looking for an Android application that could run BASIC so he could "teach programming while drinking coffee with [his] friends". Thus, BabaBASIC was born—a hat tip to 'Babá', the Greek term for "dad", and a reminder of who sparked this journey. The first iteration of this was made over a 10-hour all-nighter using existing…
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QBasic 4.5 on Android is an app that lets users run BASIC programming code on their phones. It recreates the QBasic 4.5 environment that ran on older computers, making it compatible with legacy programs. The app is designed for people who want to learn or teach programming in a straightforward way, particularly those nostalgic for classical BASIC. It runs on Android devices and offers access to retro programming education through modern technology.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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My father, who hung up his coding hat in the '80s, recently entered the golden years of retirement. One day, he mused about the simplicity and educational value of BASIC and wondered if there was a way to share its charm using today's technology. Specifically, he was looking for an Android application that could run BASIC so he could "teach programming while drinking coffee with [his] friends". Thus, BabaBASIC was born—a hat tip to 'Babá', the Greek term for "dad", and a reminder of who sparked this journey. The first iteration of this was made over a 10-hour all-nighter using existing open-source libraries. I ended up forking the BASIC-like implementation to make it more byte-for-byte compatible with QBasic 4.5, which is what my father used back in the 90s to teach me programming. This is the first thing I have ever made of which he approves.
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