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Post by bplus on May 8, 2021 9:44:32 GMT -5
Hi @ron77,
I see you are using PowerBasic. I am wondering since they charge real money for it what your opinion of it is?
How does it compares to FreeBasic or QB64?
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Post by georgemcginn on May 8, 2021 16:02:50 GMT -5
I've used it a lot in corporate and research settings during my days programming on Windoze!
I love it. I wish it ran on macOS and Linux!
I especially like the inline assembler, and the ability to create .COM and .DLL files.
I've coded many enterprise-wide programs and many research projects in it.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2021 17:20:03 GMT -5
I would love to try out the Windows Power Basic, but alas I don’t know if I can afford it.
However, I do use the DOS version of PowerBasic and have for years. As George said you can make .dll and mix in both Basic and Assembly in the same source code. I have done this myself when I want to try and get some extra speed or need assembly for something else. PowerBasic is a GREAT language.
Also one other thing that the DOS version would let you create was a TSR (Terminate and stay resident).
For those unfamiliar with this, A TSR acts similiar to multi-tasking. When you run a TSR nothing would seem to hapen, but when you hit a specific key command the program would start and do its thing. An example say you had a chart of ASCII characters, codes and other info you wanted access to. You would create the TSR, set a key combo that would enable it, and whenever you pressed the combo, it would appear. Quite nice, especially in DOS.
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Post by bplus on May 8, 2021 17:58:46 GMT -5
Oh thanks guys. Yeah I remember TSR's and COM file from DOS days, I remember typing numbers or something for a very simple binary COM program.
DLL's that's like a compiled code library? (never made one but need a bunch to distribute JB files.)
Anything to say about API's? The advanced Liberty Basic program has that as feature.
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Post by aurel on May 9, 2021 3:43:54 GMT -5
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Post by aurel on May 10, 2021 6:01:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 6:46:33 GMT -5
hello bplus ... about my opinion about powerbasic... well as for a language I think it's better and more convenience then QB64 or freebasic... i basically just convert code from QB64 and freebasic to powerbasic - however powerbasic has no real active community since i'm waiting for over 3 month now to be approved on their forum and also there are no discord server or irc chat for powerbasic - meaning - there is no real community of powrbasic programmers but there are alot of tutorials and guides and well documentation... in a nut shell - power basic is better to code in even though it's not free... the fact that there is no real active community is better considering the shitty communities of freebasic and QB64... p.s. - it seems that the folks of powerbasic don't give a dam about having a community of developers around their product they just don't care - all they want is your money. at least that's my opinion... ron77. |
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Post by aurel on May 10, 2021 8:40:21 GMT -5
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Post by bplus on May 10, 2021 14:48:28 GMT -5
Thanks Ron and Aurel
Not updated since XP and no developers to keep it current, I wonder if it even does 64 bit processing?
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Post by aurel on May 11, 2021 1:39:56 GMT -5
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