Well yes it can. I'm a BASIC hobby programmer and I'm glad you asked this question. As others have mentioned, there are several compiled BASICs available: Visual Basic, True Basic, Pure basic. There is a really nice and free Quick Basic emulator called QB64 that will compile an executable for you. But I'm still stuck on the old line number style of BASIC and I use the wonderful and terrific PC-BASIC, a free GW-BASIC emulator with good but not perfect compatibility. The issues of incompatibility won't affect 99% of the programs a hobbyist might attempt, in my opinion. I also play around with some other emulators of old systems that included BASIC back in the day. Such as: WinVice (Commodore,) AppleWin (Apple II,) TRS-80gp (TRS-80,) and there are several others. These all run at the speed of the original machines that they are emulating, usually 1 Mhz. So, very slow. But PC-BASIC runs at the regular speed of your computer and so it is pretty fast for line number style BASIC. I should mention that it is possible to run the old GW-BASIC executable under DosBox. I haven't done that, though, so I can't say how well it runs. Further, I should tell you that most of the software featured in this answer is free, but True Basic and Pure basic are commercial products. Visual Basic is quite modern and powerful compared to most of these others and is free for hobbyists, non-profits, etc. There are still more examples that i din't even mention. So, if you want to code in BASIC on Windows, there are lots of ways.
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