Well this is one of the more interesting things I've accidentally found recently. Small Basic for new beginning programmers. Seems to be a free IDE in basic like syntax (well, really it's Visual Basic/cscript like syntax). Quite odd. However their intro to small basic is quite intuitive and has all the examples a beginning programmer would likely try including simple graphic functions. This intrigues me although if one already knew other languages I don't see a huge reason to port anything over nor have I seen if it has the ability to compile things but still I did find that 64-bit Windows 7 officially has no support for 16-bit apps which is annoying, hence little things I wrote in QB I can't run anymore and am forced to rewrite in another language or scripting language. For now I settled on the windows scripting (cscript) language since it's already native on NT and higher operating systems including our servers.
But kinda cool to see Logo/Turtle back for new Windows and a free language again. I stumbled onto this trying to recall if Microsoft officially released Qbasic/Quick Basic as freeware which I thought it had but all I found was a link to "olddos" for Windows 95 which I guess included it.
But kinda cool to see Logo/Turtle back for new Windows and a free language again. I stumbled onto this trying to recall if Microsoft officially released Qbasic/Quick Basic as freeware which I thought it had but all I found was a link to "olddos" for Windows 95 which I guess included it.