XPB! Basic
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XPB! Basic is a true 32 bit compiler.
Its amazing feature is the ability to build GUI stand alone EXE in approx.
4Kb. Althought it is not a RAD the working environment is really good.
At present it has more than 200 between commands, functions and statements
and it is constantly improved and updated. You can also create OBJ and
DLL. Recommended.
August 2003 - August 2004. For one year
XPB! Basic disappeared from the Net and the official site was
down. XPB! Basic has been discontinued under that name by the developer
Tony Jones and the compilers's code has passed to Russ of Vortex Effects
who planned to continue development under the new name AsmBasiX.
August 2004. Rick Lett, Tony Jones' co-developer of XPB,
acquired the rights to continue the developement of AsmBasiX from Russ
as he 'was unable to devote the time required to get AsmBasiX available
for the public'. Rick Lett called AsmBasix back to its original name XPB!
Basic. Russ reports that 'the person taking over development is very committed
to see this product continue'. Thanks James and thanks Michalis.
November 2004. XPB!Basic has again been abandoned. Many
forums that I read, report that the project has been discontinued by the
end of October 2004. The last programmer who had XPB!Basic in his hands
is Rick Lett but its official site
is down. Previously
he had an other official site
but he removed all the pages about the language around 21/22 October 2004.
The forum linked above talks about Rick, but as you may see from the email
of Tony Jones he was the owner of the outcastprogramming.com site. From
the 22nd of October till the end of 2004 a message 'Due to technical problems
OutCastProgramming will be unavailable for about a week' was the only
thing displayed by the site.
Now the site offers some general information about programming with FBSL
(Free Basic script language). It seems that Rick Lett sold some copies
of his new version of XPB!Basic without informing Tony that XPB will be
made public again and in so posting the new update at OutcastProgramming,
claiming sole merit for its re-release. The new version had only few improvements.
This created the conflict between the two and has led to the shutdown
of XPB again. The registered users were abandoned and all support stopped.
XPB! Basic is hard to find but thanks to Jonathan here you can
download a 'rare' copy of version 1.12 and version 1.17.
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