Open source Basic Compiler: Freebasic

[Eugene Esterly III]

Freebasic is a open source Basic compiler for Dos, Windows & Linux.
Freebasic is made to be compatiable with many of the commands from
Quickbasic while adding many features. You can read about the features
of Freebasic at
http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/about?section=features & you can
download it from http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/download .

Even though this compiler has support for Quickbasic which is a DOS
prog & even though Freebasic has a DOS version, don't try to use
Quickbasic libaries because it is a 16-bit Dos prog while Freebasic is
a 32-bit Dos compiler.

I would suggest getting the Windows or Linux versions because these are
the most advanced & they have support for external libaries such as
Allegro/SDL (the most popular game programming libaries), Bass/Bassmod,
FMOD, FreeImage, OpenGL, Glut, LUA & many other libaries. To see the
libaries currently support by Freebasic goto
http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/link . Now if your favorite libary
isn't support by Freebasic, you can write a wrapper so that Freebasic
can support it. Now Freebasic is a command-line prog, so if you don't
like command-line progs, then download FBide which is a GUI for
Freebasic & it can be downloaded from http://fbide.sourceforge.net/ .

To get games/apps written in Freebasic goto:

http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/gallery

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=54bce3a2ce2b775e1046f2d5a19e95db

http://forum.qbasicnews.com/viewforum.php?f=20&sid=74e6384c9935fffc9e6458acbe37ad8e

http://forum.qbasicnews.com/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=74e6384c9935fffc9e6458acbe37ad8e

http://jockethebeast.phatcode.net/ (contains progs written in
Quickbasic & Freebasic)

http://dhost.hopto.org/aapproj/fbgfx/ (contains 115 prog's written in
Freebasic)

http://dhost.hopto.org/aapproj/ (contains prog's written in Freebasic &
Quickbasic & also includes libraries for Freebasic).

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

Well, over the past couple of days, I have found more info about
Freebasic. I've been off of work for the past 2 days (Monday & Tuesday,
I work Monday-Friday) because I was sick & I found some more links for
Freebasic.

A game called Kingdoms was ported from Quickbasic to Freebasic & you
can read about/download it from http://www.qbasicnews.com/ .

The above site is devoted to Quickbasic/Freebasic news & apps.

The Irrlicht Engine has been made to work with Freebasic. The Irrlicht
Engine is a open source high performance realtime 3D engine. You have
to download the SDK & wrapper for Freebasic & it can be downloaded from
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ .

Pete's QBASIC/Quickbasic site is a site devoted the QB & Freebasic. It
has a newsletter called QB Express which deals with programs &
tutorials for QB/Freebasic & his site is at http://www.petesqbsite.com/

FBTK located at http://fbtk.net/phpBB2/index.php is a major forum for
Freebasic. Contains links to games/apps written in Freebasic.

Clark
Productions located at
http://home.grandecom.net/~rickclark58/programs.html has several
games/apps written in Freebasic.

There are many more games/apps written in Freebasic but if I wrote them
all down, it would take forever.

Check out these Google searches to see more games/apps written for
Freebasic.

Google Search: Freebasic (I found many apps using this search. Goto
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=freebasic&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Google Search: Free Basic , goto
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Free+basic&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Use the above google searchs to find more apps for Freebasic. I found
many apps looking at the searches above.

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

Well, over the past couple of days, I have found more info about
Freebasic. I've been off of work for the past 2 days (Monday & Tuesday,

I work Monday-Friday) because I was sick & I found some more links for
Freebasic.


A game called Kingdoms was ported from Quickbasic to Freebasic & you
can read about/download it from http://www.qbasicnews.com/ .


The above site is devoted to Quickbasic/Freebasic news & apps.


The Irrlicht Engine has been made to work with Freebasic. The Irrlicht
Engine is a open source high performance realtime 3D engine. You have
to download the SDK & wrapper for Freebasic & it can be downloaded from

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ .


Pete's QBASIC/Quickbasic site is a site devoted the QB & Freebasic. It
has a newsletter called QB Express which deals with programs &
tutorials for QB/Freebasic & his site is at http://www.petesqbsite.com/



FBTK located at http://fbtk.net/phpBB2/index.php is a major forum for
Freebasic. Contains links to games/apps written in Freebasic.


Clark
Productions located at
http://home.grandecom.net/~rickclark58/programs.html has several
games/apps written in Freebasic.


There are many more games/apps written in Freebasic but if I wrote them

all down, it would take forever.


Check out these Google searches to see more games/apps written for
Freebasic.


Google Search: Freebasic (I found many apps using this search. Goto
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=freebasic&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I found many games/apps/libraries for Freebasic using the above Google
Search, too many too list in this posts.