PowerBASIC
| PowerBASIC | |
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 Screenshot of PowerBASIC for Windows 9.0 IDE and an example compiled Windows GUI. | |
| Developer | Robert "Bob" S Zale (b. 1945, d. 2012) |
| First appeared | 1990 |
| Stable release | PB/Win 10.0 (4 May 2011); PB/DOS 3.50 (16 December 1997)
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| OS | Windows (32-bit only), MS-DOS |
| Website | URL (archived 2024) |
| Influenced by | |
| Turbo 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.