Marking the 300k download milestone, comes the 9th installment of Small Basic, the fastest and the best yet! This version of Small Basic packs a ton of bug fixes, performance improvements and some of the most requested features.
Download the new version here!
Firstly, the Small Basic compiler and runtime have been overhauled and the result is a big performance gain. Some tight loop programs run up to 4 times faster than the previous versions. This has been the primary focus of the release.
Next, we have new additions to the library.
And then, there are the bug fixes. I won’t go into the details but there are a ton of fixes. An important update is the change in the default extension for Small Basic documents. Small Basic documents get a default extension of “.smallbasic” instead of “.sb” to avoid conflicts with MIT’s Scratch.
Last, but certainly not the least, is the support for right-to-left languages and the first localized language in that series is Arabic. Also included are Dutch and Polish versions, bringing the count of supported languages to 15!
Terrific. I use it in the computer labs 2nd - 5th grades.
Congratulation! I like SmallBasic very much !
Hi Vijayeg,
Just wondering if you are considering the serial comms comands again yet. There are interfaces available like this one
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that would be wonderful to use if we could communicate with them through small basic.
Thanks,
Mike
I love it... I think they did a really good job. I love microsoft, the only thing i dont like is Internet Explorer. I hope Internet Explorer 9 is alot faster and better.
Small Basic is good environment. I want that you to do many libraries for other purposes. Thanks.
vijayeg, can you do many tutorials(on russian language).
Thanks a lot=)
Send me to maxibonino@gmail.com
I've written a number game program. The computer picks a number and you try to guess it. I'd like to see if any one could import it, simplify the code but with the same result, and then post the import code on this page. Import code: XRF373
v0.9 is great! I really like the Controls object
Why didn’t I know about this!? I’ll have to give this a shot.
Why does it use floppy disk icons for save? How many children know what a floppy disk is?
Seriously, it’s about time you dropped the floppy Microsoft.
My Mandelbrot programs run much faster in v0.9 than they did in v0.8. This is a very nice improvement. thanks..
small basic 0.9 is great! how do you get the program to read the text boxes in the library "Controls" ?
I'm afraid this is a v1.0 feature request as I couldn't find anywhere else to post.
I have just successfully ported a couple of Basic programs that have been with me a number of years (Mandlebrot Set Generator & Tic Tac Toe)
My only problems were associated with
1) No 'Exit Loop' statement.
2) Subroutines not accepting parameters aka. Local variables
3) No Functions
Please consider these, as they will encourage good programming practise.
Keep up the good work!
It says, "Firstly, the Small Basic compiler and runtime have been overhauled..."
There is no compiler mentioned in the pdf instructions, nor any button with that option. It cannot run without the .net framwork and the .dll files.