99 Bottles of Beer

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Language GW-BASIC

Date:	06/08/05
Author:	Stefan Scheler
URL:	http://sts.synflood.de/
Comments:	3
Info:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC
Score:	(2.98 in 52 votes)

005 REM 99 Bottles of Beer in GW-BASIC 
010 REM by Stefan Scheler <sts[at]synflood[dot]de> - Ilmenau, Germany in June 2005
015 REM GW-BASIC (named after Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee and is 
020 REM known more affectionately as 'gee-whiz') was a dialect of BASIC developed
025 REM by Microsoft, originally for Compaq. It was the predecessor of QBasic. 
030 CLS
035 FOR I = 99 TO 1 STEP -1
040 MODE = 1: GOSUB 080
045 PRINT I; "bottle" + BOTTLES$ + " of beer on the wall,"; i; "bottle" + BOTTLES$ + " of beer."
050 MODE = 2: GOSUB 080
055 PRINT " Take one down and pass it around,"; i-1; "bottle" + BOTTLES$ + " of beer on the wall."
060 NEXT
065 PRINT " No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer."
070 PRINT " Go to the store and buy some more. 99 bottles of beer."
075 END

080 REM subroutine handles plural s
085 IF I = MODE THEN BOTTLES$ = "" ELSE BOTTLES$ = "s"
090 RETURN

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Pekka Ritamaki said on 02/15/08 21:07:16

"GW" in-GW-BASIC is not after Gates William, but initials of Greg Whitten, who was a Microsoft employee. He developed the standards in the Microsoft basic compiler line.
ref: wikipedia

Scott Houdek said on 04/16/09 12:18:17

you two guys make up your mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, enough already, sheesh.

Ataman KALKAN said on 12/08/09 01:48:35

My first computer was running gwbasic.
It has 28812 bytes (not kbytes) of memory. (1984)
It was nice to learn some basic programming concepts with this childhood machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC :
GW-BASIC is able to play simple music using the PLAY statement, requiring a string of notes represented in a music macro language (e.g. PLAY "edcdeee2dfedc4". More low-level control is possible with the SOUND statement, which takes the arguments of a frequency in hertz and a length in clock ticks for the standard internal PC speaker in IBM machines. Consequently sound is limited to single channel beeps and whistles as befits a 'business' machine.

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