Mike Martin the aurthor of SpeedBasic recently contacted me about his product. It turns out that development has not in fact stopped. Mike took a look at B++ and noticed some areas he thought could be improved. He did the same with his own Speed basic. Taking all this on board and re wrote SpeedBasic to incorporate much more syntax checking prior to converting the code into C.

The latest incarnation of SpeedBasic can be found here: http://www.martinm.net/

New features include:

• Syntax similar to FreeBasic.
• Properties supported.
• Syntax checking almost complete.
• Creation of libraries.

Although, the IDE is not quite ready yet so you will have to make do with the basic editor.

If you’re interested in getting involved with this very worthwhile project I’m sure Mike would appreciate some help. He’s especially keen to hear from anyone with a decent understanding of API’s. He can be contacted thought his web site.