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White Lightning [1] [2]. The original version is Forth, but it also offers BASIC extensions and I seem to remember there's a "compiler" though a at least some of the BASIC compilers for 6502 based platforms did little more than turn the BASIC into a bunch calls into the BASIC interpreter to sidestep the interpreter loop so that might not say much.

EDIT: Here's the manual for Basic Lightning [3] which mentions in the preface that a compiler was due to be released in 1985.

EDIT2: Ah, it changed name to Laser BASIC when the compiler was released [4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8609Pel_RU

[2] http://www.crashonline.org.uk/08/whitelig.htm

[3] http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/applications/White_Lightni...

[4] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008329



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