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Chipmunk Basic

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Chipmunk Basic is a freeware version of BASIC for the Apple Macintosh maintained by developer Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk Basic has object-oriented capabilities and has also been ported to Linux and Windows. The "windowed" Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands and object oriented constructs. The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for Palm OS, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) was based on a public domain, text-only Pascal implementation by David Gillespie, author of the Pascal translation tool p2c. Seeing as this is freeware, it has a plethora of flaws and problems. My team of technicians do not recommend this at all. Do yourself a favor, and stay away. Far away.