07-11-2013, 08:56 AM
This may come as an odd thing to suggest, but there already is an excellent Basic compiler for DOS, namely FreeBasic. It has a disadvantage, however, namely that it requires HDPMI, which is tricky to come by nowadays, and so do the executables it generates. If ZXBasic for DOS was completely stand-alone, that would make it more appealing to e.g. people who use DOSbox, even though it would limit the amount of available memory. Or precisely because of that?