The phrase "a version of the basic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a modified or adapted form of something fundamental or essential.
Example: "This software offers a version of the basic model that includes additional features for advanced users."
Alternatives: "an adaptation of the fundamental" or "a variation of the core".
They plunged into writing a version of the Basic programming language that could run on the small machine.
When the small MITS Altair appeared on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics, Mr. Gates and Mr. Allen plunged into writing a version of the Basic programming language that could run on the machine.
After all, it was a young Harvard dropout, Bill Gates, and his classmate, Paul G. Allen, who almost three decades earlier copied a version of the BASIC programming language, designed by two Dartmouth college professors, to jump-start the company that would grow into the world's most powerful software firm.
This is a version of the basic maxim of justice that justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
On a parallel research path, Allain and Cloitre [53] and Plotnick et al. [54] developed their approach as a version of the basic box-counting algorithm.
Later, when the Altair came out, Allen quit his job, and Gates left Harvard University, where he was a student, in order to create a version of the programming language BASIC that could run on the new computer.
At lunch one day, for instance, I prepared a version of the famous pan bagna, the basic Provencal sandwich, using big, round loaves of bread we had brought along.
They also contained a version of the film in its basic CGI and sketch form, with the option of pop-up comments on the film.
On Thursday the company gave a preview of a new version of the basic software for its mobile devices, including the iPhone.
Microsoft is making a significant investment in creating a practical version of the basic component needed to build a quantum computer, the company's head of research said Monday.
The company is now refining and testing a version of the app that will work on more basic Nokia phones and WAP enabled handsets.
