Re: No more BASIC for MAC?

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@nau.edu>]

I wrote my own MBL interface code (!) for homebrew interfaces (!!) for
the Mac in ZedBASIC, the forerunner of FutureBASIC.  It was 
an outstanding product for structured programming -- a lot like BASIC
combined with PASCAL (eg, CASE statements etc).  If they have a powerMac
compiler, then the product is worth checking out.  I partially earned my 
MA writing code with ZedBASIC.

There is also a product called TrueBASIC, which my wife tells me was upgraded
to PPC and is used to teach Physics-related programming (numeric methods, etc)
at Purdue.  A web search will turn up both products. 

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu  http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac/homepage.html

>  kyle forinash <forinas@indiana.edu> wrote:
> > I've just been told from a vendor that no version of BASIC exists for the
> > PowerMac.
>
> Your vendor needs to get a copy of the Apple Developer Catalog.  My 
> latest copy arrived a few days ago.  It lists two BASICs:
>
> FutureBasic II 2.0 (STAZ Software, http://www.stazsoftware.com/), $229
> VIP-BASIC 2.0 (Mainstay, http://www.mstay.com/), $249
>
> VIP-BASIC is PowerMac-native and can generate PowerMac native code (or so 
> says the blurb).
>
> -- 
> Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>                        Presbyterian College
> Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA