So i installed and played around with SpeedBasic. I chose to install the Borland C++ compiler, even though i have MSVC. I can honestly say it was a breeze. Much easier that installing VS6 or VB express! (This is stupid, how can it be that one man working by himself can do it better that MS????!!!!, lol!)
Anyway, I don’t really know much about none MS BASIC syntax, but it was easy enough to build a hello world app. Install to compilation took about 20 mins - not bad!!!!

I have found out that SpeedBasic is not being developed anymore. To be honest, the program show load of potential, but I think you’d struggle to develop any data centric app with it. It will stay on my PC for now, but I think until I become quite proficient with C++ and BASIC, it’s use will be limited – if you are cognisant of these languages it still might be worth a look esp. for compiling .dlls. Whatever.
Anyway while I was looking a SB, I came across B++ [1 2]. That’s next on the list!!!