OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Programming
Powerbasic for OS/2
Robert Roland:
I don't know about PowerBASIC, but there's always TrueBASIC, and you can still buy it.
https://www.truebasic.com/products/p/true-basic-for-os2
The demo version is on Hobbes: https://hobbesarchive.com/?dir=%2F&stype=all&sort=type_name&search=truebasic&submit=Search
Doug Clark:
In addition to the ones listed on os2site.com, CA-Realizer was a basic interpreter and development package released for OS/2 and Windows, but it is hard to find. You might find one on ebay.
Anton Monroe:
PowerBasic for OS/2 existed, but it was never released. It was reportedly nearly finished except for some OS/2-specific features. The last I heard about it was a post in the PowerBasic Compuserve forum that it would be available "in the relatively near future". That was in October 1998.
Dan Eicher:
Hi,
Thanks for all the feedback. I was hoping to leverage past Turbo (Power) Basic.
Probably my best bet would be Watcom C + Blake Watson OS/2 Warp Programming for Dummies.
Thanks Again,
Dan
Martin Iturbide:
Hello Dan
--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on July 30, 2025, 04:16:32 pm ---
Hi,
Thanks for all the feedback. I was hoping to leverage past Turbo (Power) Basic.
Probably my best bet would be Watcom C + Blake Watson OS/2 Warp Programming for Dummies.
Thanks Again,
Dan
--- End quote ---
Too bad EDM/2 is also down (netlabs server), it has listed some Basic tools for OS/2.
But I agree with you, that the best bet is to stick with C and C++ in OS/2.
Arca Noae has this website.
- https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/information-for-developers/
It says that on OS/2 they prefer C with OpenWatcom, gcc and IBM VisualAge C/C++ (Close source and discontinued).
Once at Warpstock, David Azarewicz recommended me to use gcc for porting things from the linux world and OpenWatcom for PM development. He told me that OpenWatcom is optimized for PM more than gcc. This was because I compiled a lot of PM samples with gcc Even that PM with gcc worked fine for these samples, he recommended me OpenWatcom better.
Sadly I still haven't got the time to surf further into OpenWatcom. I did my little PM samples compilation with gcc and all the exercises are in this Github account.
Regards
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