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Small Basic Programs in 25 lines

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 Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:52 AM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Graduating from Small Basic

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 Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:38 PM by vijayeg | 0 Comments

Happy Birthday Small Basic

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, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 6:54 PM by vijayeg | 8 Comments
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Sample of the Week - SOko

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 7:45 AM by vijayeg | 3 Comments

Collision Physics With Small Basic

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. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 7:53 AM by vijayeg | 2 Comments
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Now available: Small Basic v0.6

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: Updated Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:26 PM by vijayeg | 4 Comments
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"Introducing Small Basic" manual available in German

Download from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/1/921D10C7-75C0-4395-93AF-49A830F4780E/Small Basic Einfuehrung.pdf Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:20 AM by vijayeg | 0 Comments

Star Gates: Sample of the Week

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:48 AM by vijayeg | 0 Comments
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Sample of the week: Gorillas

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... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:50 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Small Basic, now in Russian

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 7:22 PM by vijayeg | 0 Comments
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Running localized versions of Small Basic

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%\microsoft\small Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:26 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Color Picker

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:43 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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API Reference

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. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 7:07 PM by vijayeg | 2 Comments
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Arrays in Small Basic

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 – Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:04 AM by vijayeg | 7 Comments
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Spanish Documentation now live

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...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:35 AM by vijayeg | 0 Comments
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