Ever wished for a BASIC Windows Compiler? One with the straightforward DOS text mode interface but megabytes and megabytes of memory? Ever wished for a Windows compiler that's truly easy to use? Well, now it's here. Today. The PowerBASIC Console Compiler for Windows. With PB/CC, it's a whole new Windows! Text mode every version of Windows from Win95 to Vista and Win7.

This newest version of PB/CC sports a number of exciting new features. Total support for both ANSI and Unicode strings with automatic conversion. Simplified resource support. You can add resource data inline, right in your basic source code. There is no need to create a resource file, compile it, and then link it into your source. All this done automatically. Dead code removal. Unreferenced code will be removed from the compiled program to minimize the executable file size. Create client COM applications using Dispatch, Direct, Automation, or Dual interfaces. A complete graphics engine, a printer package for Windows-Only printers, dynamic pointers, and thread local storage, to name just a few. But more about them later.

PB/CC supports INPUT, PRINT, LOCATE, LINE INPUT, INKEY$, INSTAT, CLS, COLOR, KEY, KEY$, and LPRINT. All of the standard text functions. But then we added more. CONSHNDL, CURSOR, INSHIFT, PAGE, PAGEACTIVE, PAGEVISIBLE, SCREENATTR, PCOPY, WAITKEY$ and WAITSTAT. A complete set of mouse handling routines. SCROLL any region of the screen in any direction. STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR. Even a PARSE statement and PARSE$ function to extract delimited fields, and new options for the EXTRACT$ function, too. All the text tools you'll ever need.

Home Page: http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbcc/