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)
• 0.5 (Mar 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)
• 4.5.1 (2017-05-31)

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)