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The PowerBASIC Utilities Toolkit (PBUTILS) is a suite of applications to help PowerBASIC programmers become more productive. There are over 15 programs in this tool kit that do things like format code, to generating declare files. This suite is incredibly useful for day to day programming tasks.

Just BASIC is a free personal Windows programming tool and tutorial, great for teaching or learning programming. Because Just BASIC is based on the classic BASIC language it is easy to learn, and it has been extended with easy to use commands so you can create your own Windows programs without needing to learn all the underlying details of the Windows operating system.

This is a very special tool, it makes the writing process of BASIC programs faster, it converts XSI statements into BASIC code. XSI lets you use shorter and smarter code, drag an XSI file to the icon and the code inside will be converted to standard BASIC (HTML is supported as well). For more information double click on the program file, examples are given. XSI is 100% compatible with ChipMunk Basic, a free interpreter available for MacOS, Windows and Linux.

FBSL is an easy to learn interpreted BASIC language. The distribution includes an fbs to exe converter so stand alone executables can be made. FBSL also allows access to Windows or other DLLs. Program branching is currently limited to if, then, goto, and gosub. Even so, the language is surprisingly versatile.

Yabasic implements the most common and simple elements of the basic language. It comes with goto/gosub, with various loops, with user defined subroutines and Libraries and does monochrome line graphics and printing. Yabasic runs under Unix and Windows; it is small (around 200KB) and free.