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)