First Purebasic

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:26 am

Hi folks. I was just wondering, does anyone have the first PureBasic version? 1.0 - 2.0 or so? I'd like to check it out

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dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:39 am

I always enjoy watching first releases of anything, I don't really know whats so great about doing it, I guess that you get to see both sides and you realise how much work was put on it (or how little, depends).

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:46 am

Yes, that's the reason. I'm very curious about how was the syntax like, the asm output, etc. It would be very nice to have it

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:39 pm

The earliest version I ever had was 3.92. Maybe Fred could keep a repository of every version of PB - for nostalgic and backwards compatability reasons (only for registered users though!).

PB · Post by PB » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:03 pm

> does anyone have the first PureBasic version?

I have v2.40, which is fairly early.

> I'd like to check it out

I can't give you a copy, but here's some screenshots which show just how far
the language has come. Note that back then there was no Visual Designer for
it either. These screenshots were taken under Windows XP, which is why they
don't look so good... but I guess that shows how well the latest version of
PureBasic has adapted!

Note about the Manual screenshot above: every topic in the Manual is seen
in the screenshot -- the scrollbar makes it appear that there's more to view,
but it's only white space below the Inlined x86 ASM topic.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:43 pm

Why can't you give me a copy? I am a registred user.
Thanks for the screenshots

. It looks awesome even for such an early version

. I really like Killswitch's idea about a repository. We could have the whole collection...

[Edit]
Oh, I know... It's because of the license, right?

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:00 pm

IIRC:

Purebasic started life as a command set expansion for BlitzBasic on the Amiga called NCS (New Command Set). After that Mark Sibly dropped support for Blitz on the Amiga much to the dissapointment of lots of people so Fred decided to make NCS into a full blown language for the Amiga. Fred only decided to support windows after a bet from a friend!

After v1.60 MS windows support was added.

I don't think there was a public released v1 of Purebasic, v1 to v1.5 was alpha, then up to v2 was closed beta. I think PB has one of the earliest publically available versions.

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:02 pm

Kale wrote:I don't think there was a public released v1 of Purebasic, v1 to v1.5 was alpha, then up to v2 was closed beta. I think PB has one of the earliest publically available versions.

Yes, v2.0 was the first public version.

PB · Post by PB » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:05 pm

> Mark Sibly dropped support for Blitz on the Amiga much to the dissapointment
> of lots of people

Yes, I was one of them.

> Fred only decided to support windows after a bet from a friend!

Why the wink? Was that "friend" you, by any chance?

> I don't think there was a public released v1 of Purebasic, v1 to v1.5 was
> alpha, then up to v2 was closed beta. I think PB has one of the earliest
> publically available versions.

From the v2.40 manual:

22 October 2000 : Version 2.00 PR 1
- First public release of PureBasic x86. For testing purpose only

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:49 pm

PB wrote:> Fred only decided to support windows after a bet from a friend!

Why the wink? Was that "friend" you, by any chance?

Nah, not me, it was one of his university friends who asked him why he was supporting a dead platform (Amiga) and Fred said it was no hard task to port the source to x86 or any other cpu, So his m8 said go on then show me!

Fred then learned WinAPI using ASM!!!

maw · Post by **maw** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:48 pm

Fred then learned WinAPI using ASM!!!

My kind of guy!!

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:45 pm

Hum...

My first windows version was 3.20

(This reminds me, gotta donate to Fred

you deserve it man ! )

But in fact i used it way before it was even a compiler!

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/c ... FM3.readme

1999 !!! WoooooW

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:47 pm

started with the first public PB amiga version and the NewCommandSet for BB2 Amiga! Exchanged some mails with fred this time, like C2P stuff! Then i taked a clother look to PB 2.10 (afaik), DarkBasic and some other coding languages for PC! Started official with PB 2.20 !?

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:49 pm

still miss the topic on the command helpsite... like Manual v2.40 !

PB · Post by PB » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:47 pm

> still miss the topic on the command helpsite... like Manual v2.40

What do you mean? Do you want a copy of the Manual? That'd be up to Fred.
If he says it's okay, I'll zip it up and put a link to it here.

BTW, here's an archive of how PureBasic.com looked on Feb 01, 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/200102010604 ... basic.com/

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