BASIC compiler?

[ebrizzlez]

Would anyone know of a good free BASIC compiler or IDE? Because I wanted to learn game programming, my friend recommended BASIC. I know BASIC is a bit noobish, but it beats all the varibles and functions needed in C++ to do the same operation as BASIC would do. I bought a book and it uses a demo version of Blitz Plus, which cost $60 to get the full version.... I tried to see if you could "activate" it , but I found nothing. So I have about 10 more days till the trial is up, and I need to buy it, or get a free BASIC compiler. I heard DarkBASIC was good too, but i am trying to avoid spending money. I googled this up, and all I got was Just BASIC, which creates a .tkn file (tokenized file) which is useless if I would like to give out my game to my friends! Would anyone know of any good free BASIC compilers or IDEs? Thanks.

[floodhound2]

Well i did a google search and found several. Try it and see what you can find that fits your needs and type of O.S. here is the link

http://www.google.com

Good luck!

[ebrizzlez]

I guess luck isn't on my side today! I checked again on Google, about an hour or so. And all I got was results like a DOS compiler for QBASIC not BASIC. I also got a bunch of source codes for nothingness. And piles of junk. (I even got a FREE backdoor virus when downloading a compiler. ) I guess google doesn't like me for some reason today. Would there be any recommendations?

[Jontebullen]

if you mean FreeBasic just visit http://www.freebasic.net/

[maboroshi]

here is a free Visual Basic Compiler or you can use VB 2005 provided by microsoft

http://www.freebyte.com/programming/com ... velop.html

or Microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

[ebrizzlez]

Jontebullen, FreeBasic was the DOS Ms-QuickBasic like compiler I downloaded and seems to never work correctly, to bug prone. And is Visual Basic really a BASIC compiler such as DarkBASIC ? Thanks for the help guys.