Powerbasic for OS/2

[Mentore]

It would be great if yours could get on there though, better provenance.

Now uploaded!
https://archive.org/details/watcom-vx-rexx-standard-2.1

Richard.

GREAT!!!

Mentore

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

You know (for what it's worth), IBM did release VisualAge Basic for OS/2!

Let me know if you want it, I have 1.27 release of this thing, circa 1996...but hey, nice VisualAge GUI would certainly halp.

BTW - I did actually have this installed on one of my OS/2 boxes as my son wanted to "figure out this programming thing"....lol, he was just starting up, and for those of us who similarly cut our teeth on BASIC I couldn't think of a better way to get him going...

[RTAN]

Hi Dariusz,

Yes please! I have PM'd you :-)

Best,
Richard.

[JPM]

Is it really a higher version than 1.1? Although the 1.1 is easy to program, it crashes more often. You just have to know what you have to avoid. I would be interested in how the 1.27 behaves.

[Michael]

As far as I know, version 1.5 was the last version of VisualAge for Basic. Unfortunately, the update is nowhere to be found.

Version 1.1 is unfortunately extremely unstable, especially when trying to use the language's object-oriented features.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi

As far as I know, version 1.5 was the last version of VisualAge for Basic. Unfortunately, the update is nowhere to be found.

Yes, I'm still looking for the 1.5 patch. I don't know if it was distributed as a fixpack or as a full product installer. Never saw that version in my life.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

EDM/2 is back. There are this two pages that can help out:
- https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Category:BASIC_development_environment
- https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Category:BASIC_interpreter

But if you have a choice and you want to start a new development on OS/2, my opinion is to stick with C with a open source compiler.

Regards

[Pete]

Hi Martin

I think it depends on what you plan to develop.

For my small projects WDSibyl - https://wdsibyl.org/en/ - is great as it is a full development environment: visually design your app and add (pascal) code, no mucking around with makefiles and resources - and no confusion over which compiler to use for what :-)


Regards

Pete