alt Hacker NewsI gather the version of Basic is not Object-Oriented.
So the program most likely is flat: a bunch of global variables (and possibly memory addresses), and instructions ordered by line number, rather than functions or methods.
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benstopics • today at 8:39 AM
Functions yes, and actually PowerBasic does have OOP. Michael didn't use it but it's there.
No line numbers except for goto labels, but gosub is the challenge for transpilation.
Apparently PowerBasic was the successor to Borland TurboBasic and complied to a native executable. So this wasn't an interpreted 'line number' Basic like our kiddie computers. It also probably had the Borland Windows GUI stuff.
(However it wouldn't surprise me if older 'line number' programs still mostly worked. iirc VB6 also supported this.)