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geekbasic@gmx.com



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geekbasic@gmx.com 28 Nov 2022, 20:13
Thistle uses FASM as a backend.
It's developed in Liberty BASIC.
Has anyone here heard of it?
There was a Windows and a DOS version.

I have had a copy of the Windows version for many years an have used it in some small projects including this game called Win War available here on my website http://basicgames.xyz/index.php?page=article&id=7

For some reason, I never tried the DOS version and now am regretting it. Now that I am working on my own DOS compiler, Thistle is no longer available. The website only has broken links.

Thistle produces very small exes. The game I linked to above is a 28kb exe.
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bitRAKE 29 Nov 2022, 02:36
There is a recent capture in the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220323180730/https://alycesrestaurant.com/thistle/

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The Thistle language, compiler and integrated development environment are copyright 2005, Thomas Watson and Alyce Watson.
I also see a board post from Alyce Watson saying it's difficult to provide support, in 2019.

Crying or Very sad Maybe, this is related?

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geekbasic@gmx.com 29 Nov 2022, 05:25
I see. Thank you for sharing that.

Good thing is was archived.
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