PowerBASIC
Also known as Turob Basic
PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, was the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There were both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Windows. The MS-DOS version had a syntax similar to that of QBasic and QuickBASIC. The Windows versions used a BASIC syntax expanded to include many Windows functions, and the statements could be combined with calls to the Windows API.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- PowerBASIC
- Programming language.screenshot
- PowerBasic-screen-shot.png
- Programming language.screenshot caption
- Screenshot of PowerBASIC for Windows 9.0 IDE and an example compiled Windows GUI.
- Programming language.developer
- Robert "Bob" Zale (b. 1945, d. 2012)
- Programming language.latest_release_version
- 10.0 ()
- Programming language.influenced by
- Turbo Basic
- Programming language.operating system
- Windows (32-bit only), MS-DOS
- Programming language.website
- URL (archived 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.powerbasic.com
- Image
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Article
26 sectionsContents
- History
- Compilers
- Turbo Basic
- Code example
- PowerBASIC for MS-DOS (PBDos)
- PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PBCC)
- PowerBASIC Compiler for Windows (PBWin)
- Dynamic Dialog Tools (DDT)
- Trial versions of compilers
- Tools
- PB Forms
- COM Browser
- Programming language
- Characteristics
- Hello world
- Structured control statements
- Object-oriented programming
- Graphics
- Elements of the GRAPHIC statements
- Creating a GRAPHIC WINDOW application
- Comparison of PB GRAPHIC statements with the GDI API
- Complementarity of GRAPHIC statements and the Windows GDI API
- User community
- References
- External links
- Third-party support
PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, was the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There were both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Windows. The MS-DOS version had a syntax similar to that of QBasic and QuickBASIC. The Windows versions used a BASIC syntax expanded to include many Windows functions, and the statements could be combined with calls to the Windows API.
==History== The compiler was originally published as BASIC/Z, the first interactive compiler for CP/M and MDOS. Later it was extended to MS-DOS compatible operating systems. In 1987 Borland distributed it as Turbo Basic.