Liberty BASIC

Liberty BASIC is an interpreter inspired by QBasic that allows development of GUI programs in addition to CLI programs. The author has discontinued the development of the OS/2 version, but provides a fully functional version of the last beta as a free download and states on his download page that it is now free even though the documentation talks about shareware payment.

License
Commercial Software. OS/2 version discontinued and is now freeware.

Author

 * Shoptalk Systems (Carl Gundel)

Versions

 * OS/2 (Beta)
 * 0.1 (Nov 1993)
 * 0.2 (Dec 1993)
 * 0.3 (Jan 1994)
 * 0.4 (Feb 1994)
 * 0.91 (Jul 1996)


 * Windows 16-bit (Win-OS/2)
 * 1.3
 * 1.41 (1999-03-01)
 * 1.42
 * 2.02 (2001-06-01)


 * Windows 32
 * 3.0 (2002-04-08)
 * 3.01 (2002-04-24)
 * 3.02 (2002-09-18)
 * 3.03 (2003-05-26)
 * 4.0 (2003-11-22)
 * 4.01 (2004-09-19)
 * 4.02 (2005-06-06)
 * 4.03 (2006-01-02)
 * 4.04 (2010-07-31) - Vista and Windows 7 compatibility
 * 4.5.0 (2015-08-11)

Publications

 * Wallace Wang: Beginning Programming for Dummies - Hungry Minds
 * Wallace Wang: Beginning Programming for Dummies 2nd ed. - Hungry Minds 2001, ISBN 0-7645-0835-0
 * Wallace Wang: Beginning Programming for Dummies 3rd ed. - Hungry Minds 2003
 * Wallace Wang: Beginning Programming for Dummies 4th ed. - Hungry Minds 2006
 * Greg Perry: SAMS Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours - SAMS 2001
 * Carl Gundel: Beginning Programming with Liberty BASIC - 2009, ISBN 0557228115

Links

 * Official Web Site: http://www.libertybasic.com
 * The Liberty Basic Newsletter Online
 * Liberty BASIC Programmer's Encyclopedia
 * OS/2 Port: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/basic/lb091.zip
 * WinOS/2: http://www.libertybasic.com/lb202win.zip (Shareware)