Greetings ....
The love affair with PowerBASIC began for me in the early 1990s, when I received my first PBDOS compiler program disk and manual (Version 2.1). It wasn't long before I moved up the cyber-ladder to Versions 3.0, 3.2 and finally the wonderful PBDOS 3-point-5.
I'm sure that many will agree that PBDOS and its IDE was a welcome change from Microsoft's QBasic/Quickbasic. The QB's were mmmmm, OK, but had several limitations, and at times produced a lot of frustrations.
With PBDOS in general, and V35 in particular, it was wonderful writing programs, aided by several statements and functions not found in the QB's.
If I could pick some statements/functions to add to PBDOS, which would later appear in the Console Compiler series, then these -- BUILD$, CHOOSE/CHOOSE$, WAITKEY$ and XPRINT -- would be at the top of the wish list.
So, that's my story. albeit a brief one. What's yours?
Thanx-A-Lotte, Frank.
The love affair with PowerBASIC began for me in the early 1990s, when I received my first PBDOS compiler program disk and manual (Version 2.1). It wasn't long before I moved up the cyber-ladder to Versions 3.0, 3.2 and finally the wonderful PBDOS 3-point-5.
I'm sure that many will agree that PBDOS and its IDE was a welcome change from Microsoft's QBasic/Quickbasic. The QB's were mmmmm, OK, but had several limitations, and at times produced a lot of frustrations.
With PBDOS in general, and V35 in particular, it was wonderful writing programs, aided by several statements and functions not found in the QB's.
If I could pick some statements/functions to add to PBDOS, which would later appear in the Console Compiler series, then these -- BUILD$, CHOOSE/CHOOSE$, WAITKEY$ and XPRINT -- would be at the top of the wish list.
So, that's my story. albeit a brief one. What's yours?
Thanx-A-Lotte, Frank.