Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:04 am Post subject: LibertyBasic and BBCbasic for the PC side of Bascom
I have both on my PC but did not use them really so far. I picked up Libertybasic because it is really easy to do serial communication with Libertybasic. So it seems an ideal (easy programmable) PC front for operating AVR's.
Later I found out that R.T Russell has done an excellent job with making the BBCbasicForWindows (original for AcornArchimedes) available. He wrote large parts in assembler and it is bloody fast!
If you want to read about it look here: http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/
It has become a bit silent around LibertyBasic. So I googled its maker Carl Gundel. Here is his blog: http://basicprogramming.blogspot.nl/
You can find out there that he is aware of Arduino. You may also have a look at his RunBasic: that seems to be made for doing things interactively with the internet.
It is that I am somewhat frightened of the MSexpress stuff. It is so huge, just too much documentation.
I just wonder what other people think. Should I try to learn the MSexpress stuff, or are BBC and LibertyBasic here to stay?
I would like to hear from you if you use them, if so please show off!
I like freebasic and the fbedit IDE. I don't try to write windows gui with it but for text based programming it's great. The serial IO is good also.
Dave
You really should give Visual Basic Express a try. I will give Microsoft due credit, they make an excellent IDE. It can seem very busy to start with but if you go through some step by step tutorials you will get used to it very quickly. Most of the stuff inside the VB IDE you will never use. You wont need to go through much documentation, just a few tutorials to get you from creating a project to building it. I have been using the Visual Studio package since version 6 and now actively use Visual Studio 2010 (VB and C#).
Inside Visual Studio 2010 you can choose which framework you would like to work with ie. DotNet 1.1, 2, 3, 3.5 etc. I like this feature for making GUI's of different styles and its always nice when you can make an application that matches the graphical style of certain OS's. There is another use to being able to choose your framework concerning serial communications. Microsoft did manage to break the serial comms in one of the DotNet versions, if my memory serves me correctly it was broken in DotNet 3.0 but was fixed in 3.5. I could be a bit off with that but I know it didnt work correctly in one of the versions.
Overall I would recommend the MS Visual Express packages. Take a day to mess around with it, I dont think you'll be disappointed.
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