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download for raspberry pi basic 256 skip to content basic 256 home learn download community gallery book about try online home learn download community gallery book about github all downloads download basic 256 for raspberry pi as on linux the build comes as an appimage and as a tarball they are the same program take whichever suits you v2 3 0 released oct 1 2026 see this release on github windows macos linux raspberry pi browser choose your download raspberry pi appimage arm64 recommended one file no installation make it executable and run it download basic256 raspberrypi arm64 appimage 75 1 mb raspberry pi tar gz arm64 the same program as an ordinary directory unpacked wherever you like download basic256 raspberrypi arm64 tar gz 66 5 mb you need a 64 bit arm64 aarch64 raspberry pi os install a 32 bit system cannot run this build tested on raspberry pi os trixie only this build has been tested on raspberry pi os trixie the debian 13 based release and nowhere else older raspberry pi os releases and other arm64 distributions may well work nobody has tried so we cannot promise it if you run basic 256 on something else tell us how it went that is how this line gets shorter speech needs one extra package the say statement will not work out of the box trixie does not ship speech dispatcher which basic 256 speaks through so it has to be installed once sudo apt install speech dispatcher everything else graphics sound files the editor works without any additional packages how to run each of them the same two formats as on linux the appimage needs only to be made executable chmod x basic256 appimage basic256 appimage and the tarball unpacks into a directory you can run from where it stands tar xzf basic256 tar gz cd basic256 basic256 why the download is so large both formats bundle every prerequisite qt 6 and everything under it so that they run on any distribution without you installing anything first that self containment is the whole point of an appimage and it is also why the download is so much larger than basic 256 itself debian has a package a debian package lists qt and the other prerequisites as dependencies instead of carrying copies of them so it downloads a small fraction of what the files above weigh and apt handles updates and removal the project does not build one but debian does 2 1 0 1 is in debian testing and unstable now and is in line to reach stable with the next debian release debian 13 trixie still carries 2 0 99 10 from before the 2 1 line and distributions built on debian ubuntu and raspberry pi os among them take it from there on schedules of their own so apt install basic256 gives you whatever your own release carries which is usually behind this page the appimage and the tarball remain the way to run the current version on any distribution somewhere else to run it basic 256 runs on windows macos linux the raspberry pi and in a browser tab the same language on all of them read the documentation what changed in this version every release on github basic 256 a simple programming language for learning teaching and creating 2026 basic 256 project learn documentation tutorials reference bundled examples community github discussions discord contribute contact code of conduct resources blog links changelog license privacy