Comment by pjmlp

Comment by pjmlp 14 hours ago

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A magic also available in Turbo BASIC.

Ironically Borland gave up competing against Microsoft on BASIC tooling, while Microsoft gave up competing against Borland on Pascal tooling (Quick Pascal).

Both products where short lived, Microsoft killed Quick Pascal quite quickly, while Borland sold Turbo BASIC, which became Power BASIC.

orionblastar 14 hours ago

PowerBASIC is dead; the website no longer works. The old PowerBASIC for DOS abandonware can be found here: https://winworldpc.com/product/powerbasic/3x

It is a DOS 16-bit program.

  • pjmlp 14 hours ago

    Yeah, I lost track of where it went back in Windows 9X days.

    Real BASIC seemed the only alternative to VB that was somehow still market relevant.