Hello.

> I am going to be trying blassic in the next few days. Wish me
> luck. I hope blassic is as easy to use as the old commodore
> computer was.

The main incompatibility with the Commodore Basic syntax is that
Blassic requires separators to distinguish keywords. That is, a
sentence like this:

IFA=1THENB=2

Will be not parsed as:

IF A=1 THEN B=2

Regarding to the download question, you can use the windows binary
package or download the .tgz source package and compile it. You need
mingw or cygwin for the last option.