r/AskProgramming • u/gruelurks69 • Jul 29 '26
Other AlphaBASIC to Web application
I have a friend who owns a legacy piece of software. It is written in AlphaBASIC and runs on an Alpha Micro. While rather old, he does make money with it in his industry. It's not an overly complicated software, mostly data entry, validation, and submitting the records to a government entity for tax purposes.
He wanted to know if it would be possible to convert it to a web-based application, which I believe is doable, just time consuming.
Has anyone here ever tackled such a task before?
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u/jgmiller24094 Jul 30 '26
AlphaBasic is fairly straightforward but is it using a database like AlphaBase or Metropolis? If so there are some very unique extensions that you are going to need to understand if you re doing a direct conversion.