Small Basic

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...

We just announced the download availability of the 8th CTP of Small Basic. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/archive/2010/02/05/small-basic-v0-8.aspx for details.

The eigth and newest installment of Small Basic is now available for download! Check it out here (If the link gives you a previous version, please refresh your browser's cache and try again.) This release features: Addition of details about your published...

Lynn Langit is an active proponent of Small Basic and has been responsible for changing thousands of students' lives by teaching them programming. She conducts regular classes to teach programming to anyone interested. If you're around in San Diego or...

Note: All the programs listed below can be downloaded directly into Small Basic.  Just import the programs using their published Id. What started as a fun challenge in our Small Basic Forums , quickly turned into a repository of very interesting...

You probably have heard of the "Graduate" feature introduced with the Small Basic v0.7. If you haven't - you should check it out - it allows you to convert any Small Basic program into an equivalent Visual Basic program, allowing you to gently ramp up...

Marking the first year anniversary since it went public, we're announcing the 7th release of Small Basic CTP. This release adds localized support to four new languages, extending Small Basic's reach to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian...

This week's Small Basic sample of the week comes from kts99 who has written this beautiful game, SOko Cute. This is one of the first samples that make great use of the Shapes.Rotate and Shapes.Zoom APIs. You can check out this game in Small Basic by importing...

LitDev is an expert in real-world physics programming, and he frequents the Small Basic forums providing answers to people's queries. One of his sample programs, the collision box, best demonstrates the expertise of LitDev and capabilities of Small Basic...

We have a new version of Small Basic for download at http://smallbasic.com . This release adds German localization on top of existing French, Spanish and Russian. Also, this release sports a lot of small bug-fixes and some most requested features:...

Download from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/1/921D10C7-75C0-4395-93AF-49A830F4780E/Small Basic Einfuehrung.pdf

This week's sample is an adventure in Space - a game called Star Gates, developed by BigDaddyo . This exciting and fun game takes game programming in Small Basic to the next level - with amazing sound and graphics effects. You can find the program listing...

About 20 years ago, Microsoft released MS-DOS 5, and with it shipped a programming language called QBASIC . One of the samples that came with QBASIC is GORILLAS.BAS . The game used real-world Physics to make players hit each other with... wait for it...

The Russian localized version of Small Basic went live today, as v0.5.1. No other change has been made and all the remaining functionality is the same as v0.5 (including English, French and Spanish). So, if you want Russian, go ahead and download Small...

Have an English Operating System, but want to run the Spanish version of Small Basic? Yes, you can do that with your current installation - and you don't even have to install anything extra. In your Start Menu (or in your Run prompt), type %programfiles...

Color Picker by Suduadib is an example that shows the usage of arrays in Small Basic. You can import this program using the id: SGS247 . Program listing is available at: http://program.smallbasic.com/?SGS247

The Small Basic API reference is now available at: http://doc.smallbasic.com/ . With v0.5, you can view the API reference in your choice of English, Spanish or French.

With version 0.5, Small Basic implements native support for arrays. This is a significant change from how arrays were used in v0.4 and so I want to write about the syntax and the functionality of the new arrays. Any variable can be used as an array...

You can now download the Spanish version of "Introduction to programming" guide from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/E/6/CE66B602-19F7-4FA6-A4D2-E06F8382A7B9/Introduccion a Small Basic.pdf Diviértete.

Read more about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/archive/2009/06/16/the-newest-leanest-and-the-meanest-is-here.aspx Download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/A/F/CAF9E062-94D3-4003-80D9-44CDF7EC7BD9/SmallBasic.msi

The next installment of the Small Basic Community Previews is now available for download. Version v0.5 can be downloaded at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/A/F/CAF9E062-94D3-4003-80D9-44CDF7EC7BD9/SmallBasic.msi This version adds more of...

Following the success of Asteroids v1 , the community members have made interesting tweaks and improvements to the game, resulting in Asteroids v2. This version is available for import from your Small Basic IDE with id, ASTEROIDS . You can see the...

This week's sample is Asteroids, written by Jason Jacques . It's a really fun game with tons of parameters to tweak. You can download the program directly into Small Basic using the id QFL408 . The source code listing is also available at: http://smallbasic...

The French version of "Introducing Small Basic" document is now available for download. Go get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=fr&FamilyID=61481b74-eb45-42b8-a777-8f3644406787 .

Here's a complete list of what's changed in v0.4. As usual, the fixes and features are based on what the community has requested using the forums. So, if you would like to see something, feel free to drop a note at: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums...