 Screenshot of PowerBASIC for Windows 9.0 IDE and an example compiled Windows GUI. | |
| Developer | Robert "Bob" Zale (b. 1945, d. 2012) |
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| First appeared | 1989 |
| Stable release | 10.0 (4 May 2011)[1]
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| OS | Windows (32-bit only), MS-DOS |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| Turbo Basic | |
PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, is the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compile a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There are both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Windows. The MS-DOS version has a syntax similar to that of QBasic and QuickBASIC. The Windows versions use a BASIC syntax expanded to include many Windows functions, and the statements can be combined with calls to the Windows API.