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'''BASIC toolkits''' (aka '''BASIC extensions''') were a common type of program for 1980s 8-bit [[home computer]]s. Generally third-party extensions, they added additional features to a computer's built-in [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]].
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==Examples==
*[[Beta BASIC]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andy Wright {{!}} World of SAM |url=https://www.worldofsam.org/people/andy-wright |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=www.worldofsam.org}}</ref> ([[ZX Spectrum]]) – Extension to [[Sinclair BASIC]]; started out as a simple toolkit but grew into a full interpreter
*Lightning BASIC ([[Amstrad PCW]]) – Extension to [[Mallard BASIC]] with many new facilities (see the Mallard BASIC article for details)
*[[Simons' BASIC]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dillon |first=Roberto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecuoBQAAQBAJ&dq=Simons%27+BASIC+Commodore+64&pg=PA26 |title=Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective |date=2014-12-03 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-287-341-5 |pages=26 |language=en}}</ref> ([[Commodore 64]]) – Extension to [[Commodore BASIC|BASIC 2.0]] with 114 extra commands; programmed by a 16-year-old boy and marketed by CBM
*[[Super Expander]] ([[VIC-20]]) – A combined [[random-access memory|RAM]]-expansion (3 [[kibibyte]]s) and BASIC extension [[ROM cartridge|cartridge]]
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