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- Basic on KC85/3 (at school)
- AmosBasic (Amiga)
- BlitzBasic (Amiga)
- PureBasic (Windows + MacOS, but remember it's first steps on Amiga )

Furthermore I used AmigaE for a short time. And had (have) some C books/test-kits, but never really tried it...

1982: Commodore Basic (peek-poke)
1983: Acorn BBC BASIC (inline assembler, procedures, functions ect.)
2018: Richard Russel BBCBASIC (inline assembler, struct, OOP, Windows interface ect.)
2020: Trying PureBasic mainly because of the debugger...

My Basic history is...

Sharp PC 1401 Basic (programmable pocket calculator)
Commodore Basic (VIC 20 & C-64)
Simons' Basic (C-64)
Microsoft Basic (Amiga)
AmosPro Basic (Amiga)
GFA Basic (PC, MS-DOS)
QBasic (PC, MS-DOS)
PowerBasic (PC)
PureBasic (PC)
SpiderBasic (PC)

Edit 16. Sept. 2020: added Simons' Basic, I had already forgotten that.

My long history with Basic:

GW Basic
Turbo Basic
PowerBasic for DOS
IBM VisualAge for Basic for OS/2 and Windows
PowerBasic for Windows
PureBasic

My BASIC journey, in chronological order...

1981 - TI-BASIC
Texas Instruments, for the TI-99/4A

1981 - TI Extended BASIC
Texas Instruments, for the TI-99/4A

1981 - Applesoft BASIC
Microsoft, for the Apple II

1985 - Advanced BASIC
IBM, for x86 DOS

1985 - GW-BASIC
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

1987 - CBASIC
Digital Research, for x86 DOS

1988 - Turbo BASIC
Borland, for x86 DOS

1989 - QuickBASIC 4.5
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

1992 - QBasic
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

1995 - BASIC PDS 7.1
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

1996 - Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

1999 - Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft, for x86 Windows

1999 - Visual Basic for Applications
Microsoft, for x86 Windows

2003 - eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0
Microsoft, for WindowsCE

2005 - Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft, for x86 Windows

2011 - FutureBasic
Zedcor Inc, Staz Software, Freeware, for Mac OS-X

2011 - NS-Basic
NSB Corp, x-platform mobile

2011 - GLBasic
Dream Design, x-platform desktop & mobile

2011 - PureBasic
Fantaisie Software, x-platform desktop

2016 - RFO-Basic!
Richard Feynman Observatory, Open Source, for Android OS

GFA Basic (Atari ST/Win 16Bit)
GFA Basic (32)
A bit of Visual Basic
Pure Basic

i originally wrote this in QuickBasic 4.50 in 1980's
then again when Visual Basic for DOS 1.0 Pro-version came out ( also did a similar version in Visual Basic for Windows 1.0 ProTools-version )
then last time i upgrade the VBDOS Code was 2004

Free , unrestricted , do what you want with program
http://www.mediafire.com/file/y2gc0zcf5 ... S.ZIP/file
179.24KB contains 43 examples files and ETAVBDOS.EXE Dragstrip Simulation Program ( uses Mouse )
this is a DOS .EXE , and in this version you can see what Vehicle runs every 10 Feet distance up to 1320 FT ( every 1 foot in later Pro version up to 5 miles or more )

i started off with GW-Basic
then QBasic
then all various QuickBasic versions from 1.0 to 4.50
then QuickBasic PDS 7.0 and PDS 7.1 ( still have brand new Box )
then VBDOS 1.0 Pro ( still have brand new Box )
Visual Basic 1.0 to 6.0 various Pro or Enterprise versions
PowerBasic versions up to 10.4
to current PureBasic versions

i'm sort of a "Collector" of Programming Languages
i for got i had all these : some TurboPascal or TurboBasic , some rare Basic 6.0's versions ( PDS ? )

TI-994A wrote:1999 - Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

DOS? For x86 Windows you mean.

BarryG wrote:

TI-994A wrote:1999 - Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft, for x86 DOS

DOS? For x86 Windows you mean.

Absolutely! Good catch. Nice to know that someone's actually reading.

TI-994A, I guess you take the crown here

Fred wrote:TI-994A, I guess you take the crown here

Yes, I must agree. For thirty years I stayed away from the perils of the programming seas, holding on to the safe shores of BASIC. In all honesty, my experience with PureBasic changed all that. It's truly a powerful tool, bridging the gap between the simplicity of BASIC and the complexities of other languages. A programming life preserver of sorts.



Merci beaucoup, Capitaine!

-PureBasic
-Xojo (RealBasic)
-B4a

MSX
- MSX Basic
Amiga
- Amiga Basic
- GFA Basic
- AMOS
- AMOS Pro
- Blitz Basic
PC (Windows)
- Visual Basic (5 & 6)
- Blitz Basic 2D
- Blitz Plus
- Blitz Basic 3D
- Dark Basic
- Dark Basic Pro
- BlitzMax
- PureBasic
MACOS
- BlitzMax

I was not really a basic person

Sharp PC-1211 (pocket calculator with a small BASIC inside)
Sharp MZ-700 BASIC

PureBasic

PureBasic
VBA/VBS
GW-Basic/QBasic
Applesoft/Integer Basic
Dartmouth Basic

Backwards... let's me segue to Dartmouth Basic on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System.

In my senility I can still see bits of it. The Teletype 33 ASR terminal, with a big ol' roll of lousy paper, foam cups for the telephone handset and mass storage on punched paper tape.

Yeah baby... 1969