I meant those times were gone for me. BASIC is alive and well and there are versions for pretty much any platform now :).
Not so much. Bywater Basic (bwbasic), which is a much-extended clone of GW-Basic, and a clone of Commodore-64 Basic (cbmbasic) are both open source, TTY-oriented, and portable to most operating systems and Windows. There are lots of other Basics around: see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects>.