So I’m looking for a free BASIC complier that I can use commercially. There are quite a few around , but I really need a GUI. JustBASIC seems ok, if not a little lite weight , hey you get what you pay for!!!.

FreeBASIC looks very impressive, but I need to check out the licensing. Importantly FreeBASIC is supported by the FBIDE and JellFish Pro IDE’s. The latter of which looks quite powerful.

This is well and good, but it not the most exciting thing I found…..

SpeedBasic+. It’s not complete and I don’t know if the project is still alive, but it looks very, very cool!. Products like Turbo Excel and KD, don’t, as far as I understand compile VB sub’s or win forms (Turbo Excel, compiles VBA functions to C++) , SpeedBasic looks to be even more powerful.

So what’s is like in practice? And will it work with VBA. Time, my friend will tell! Fingers crossed!!!!!!!!!!!!!