Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

Thoreau BASIC 3.2 is a free x64 BASIC interpreter inspired by GW-BASIC, running on Windows and UEFI without an operating system. It features native x64 JIT compilation, multithreading, SSE2/AVX2 acceleration, 64-bit addressing, complex numbers, and 24-bit graphics. The language includes features like PARFOR, TCP/IP networking, a profiler, debugger, and tools for creating standalone Windows executables and UEFI applications. It also includes a sound system with 32 live instrument channels, 64 sound effect channels, and 256 voices, as well as file browsing and selection, case-preserving paths, and detailed system diagnostics. The project aims to explore what BASIC would look like if it had never gone out of fashion.