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Looking for certain BASIC compiler

It was for 68K (run on a IIsi) and I don't recall it working on PowerPC. I remember it had examples, and that one of them was a breakout game.

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Anyone?

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It sounds like the version of Microsoft QuickBasic that was common in schools. I remember the Break Out example for QuickBasic being on the Macintosh LC computers at my schools, though my copy of Microsoft QuickBasic that I had got later did not have it (at home I ran it on my Macintosh II and SE/30 [a little on the Macintosh Plus though that was not so greate]). Though my memory may be off that was 22 or 23 years ago (and I was still a kid [12 years old just starting at university]).

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QuickBasic seems too old, though. And I remember the demos being in full color. Perhaps it was actually a version of VisualBasic you remember?

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AFAIK the only Visual Basic ever on Macs was VBA, and that's definitely not what you're looking for:)

QuickBASIC was only ever able to use old-school QuickDraw, which did support some limited color work. I only remember reading about this in regards to printing though (and a quick stop at Wikipedia mentions this), but honestly I've never used QuickBASIC on a color Mac. Have you checked the QuickBASIC disk images here for the example? It'll be a few days before I have the time, but I could dig out my LC III and check my disks for it.

You might also look into BASIC interpreters as well. The Mac had plenty of those. When I was first starting programming I looked through a lot of them, but was always disappointed when they couldn't actually compile anything, or if you paid them $x you could bundle your code with their runtime (lame...) so I discarded them. It might have been an example with one of those.

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There was ZBasic and FutureBasic:

Info FutureBasic 4 and Intel Mac

Knubbelmac.de/Software-Entwicklung, Programmierung
This one comes with a downloadable file of FutureBasic II.