We’re pleased to announce that, after a great year of feedback and updates on Microsoft DevLabs, Small Basic has completed its early incubation period and is moving to a more permanent home at the Microsoft Beginner Developer Learning Center. 

Thank you to all of you who have contributed your feedback to Small Basic, and we hope you’ll follow us to the Beginning Developer Learning Center, where Small Basic will continue to evolve and grow. 

We continue to rely on you for valuable feedback to improve the Small Basic product, and the project and the forums will continue to be active and new announcements going forward will be made from its new home.

Snake Bite is a game created by Davey Wavey, inspired by the SNAKE BITE game on the ZX81.  Check out the program listing and an online playable version of this game at: http://smallbasic.com/program/?SNKBITE

If you have Small Basic v0.8, you can download and edit this game by importing SNKBITE. 

The eigth and newest installment of Small Basic is now available for download!

Check it out here

This release features:

1. Addition of details about your published programs.
2. Rating system for programs published online.
3. Rich formatting based copy (useful for printing Small Basic programs)
4. Keyword help in Intellisense plus code samples.
5. Performance improvements in the Library APIs.

In addition, we have localized Small Basic in three new languages, Chinese Traditional, Japanese and Portuguese.

The coolest feature in this release is the Silverlight player for Small Basic programs.  Now you can run Small Basic programs on your browser without having to install the IDE.  You can even embed your programs/games on your blog!  As a sample, check out Tetris below!