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“Visual Basic” For The Masses
by By William D. Allen Sr.—NOCCC, , ballensr@home.com - June 02, 2001 at 15:01:07:
How about a “Visual Basic” programming capability for only $40? Wouldn’t Microsoft just love that?Carl Gundel has been developing over the years, a low cost alternative to Visual Basic named Liberty Basic. Liberty Basic will be familiar to users of the old Microsoft Quick Basic, but includes a modern graphic user interface [GUI] capability. I recently used Liberty Basic to write four short user programs to include with a booklet I am developing for neophyte stock market investors, who shouldn’t need to know anything about computer programming to use the four programs.
Liberty Basic has a great many features: a full set of math and logic functions; a GUI builder complete with text boxes, menus, buttons; and a debugger with step and walk, etc. It has a sprite design capability and accommodates bitmaps and sound as well.
There are very active Liberty Basic user groups, in which members have developed a great variety of add-ons: including font and printer support; also a gaming engine; database DLL; millisecond timer; TCP and FCP functions; image formats such as JPEG, GIF, and 24 bit bitmaps; joy stick interfaces; MIDI capability; and various Windows dialog interfaces are just a few of the API/DLLs available.
The program can be down loaded from Carl’s home page, http://world.std.com/~carlg. It is free to use as a code “translator.” But to “compile” your programs [actually to tokenize them] for stand alone operation you will need to incorporate a special code word that Carl provides which costs $40. The latest 16-bit version is 2.01. Carl is now at work on version 3.0, a 32-bit version, which will allow long file names, etc.
Download the current version and try it out at no cost. Providing stand alone programs with intuitive user interfaces at a price considerably below that of Microsoft’s Visual Basic you can’t beat Liberty Basic. As a neophyte programmer, I considered Power Basic, True Basic, Dark Basic, Quick Basic, Q Basic, you name it, but settled on Liberty Basic for two simple reasons, it’s easy to learn and the price is right!
Try Liberty Basic! It’s really handy! You’ll like it!
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