diff --git a/development/bas/README b/development/bas/README
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+Bas is an interpreter for the classic dialect of the programming 
+language BASIC. It is pretty compatible to typical BASIC 
+interpreters of the 1980s. The interpreter tokenises the source
+and resolves references to variables and jump targets before 
+running the program.
diff --git a/development/bas/bas.SlackBuild b/development/bas/bas.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for bas
+
+# Written by G. Schoenmakers
+
+PRGNAM=bas
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+fi
+
+set -e
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+find . \
+ \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
+ -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
+ -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix=$PKG/usr \
+  --libdir=$PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+  --sysconfdir=$PKG/etc \
+  --localstatedir=$PKG/var \
+  --mandir=$PKG/usr/man \
+  --docdir=$PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
+  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
+
+make
+make install
+
+find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
+  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+
+find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a COPYING INSTALL NEWS README $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/development/bas/bas.info b/development/bas/bas.info
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+PRGNAM="bas"
+VERSION="2.3"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/bas-2.3.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="a6f2752790f5ab4a0fd4e6b633db780d"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+REQUIRES=""
+MAINTAINER="G. Schoenmakers"
+EMAIL="gschoen@iinet.net.au"
diff --git a/development/bas/slack-desc b/development/bas/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+   |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+bas: bas (classic basic interpreter)
+bas:
+bas: Bas is an interpreter for the classic dialect of the programming
+bas: language BASIC. It is pretty compatible to typical BASIC
+bas: interpreters of the 1980s. The interpreter tokenises the source
+bas: and resolves references to variables and jump targets before
+bas: running the program.
+bas:
+bas: Homepage: http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/
+bas:
+bas: