PowerBasic offers a complete Basic development environment for DOS, and is nearly 100% compatible with QuickBasic syntax allowing easy porting of your existing applications.
BASIC is still an effective and productive development environment. Whether you're just starting out in the world of programming or you're an experienced programmer who needs to solve complex problems and create applications, PowerBASIC for DOS can provide all the resources and tools you need.
PowerBASIC provides an unparalleled variety of tools including easy creation of TSRs, unlimited string space, high speed communications, the most accurate numeric processing, a greater variety of data types, an open help system, and more. PowerBASIC is the first BASIC compiler with a true handle-based string memory manager. The only BASIC with both User-Defined TYPES and UNIONS, as well as unlimited strings. PowerBASIC even gives you the option to require variable declaration before use.
Beginning with this V3.5 release, PowerBASIC programmers can allocate arrays in EMS memory, giving them access to 16 megabytes of RAM for their data. By moving arrays out of conventional memory into EMS more room is available for code, making larger programs a snap. Other enhancements include native Console I/O, REDIM PRESERVE of array data, arrays within User-Defined Types, native ASCIIZ string support, indexed pointers, improved code optimisation, and integer support for random number generation.
Documentation is electronic by default although printed versions can be ordered separately. |