XBasic is a variant of the

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that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and

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by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to

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and

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, and since 1999 it has been available as

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with its runtime library under the

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license. It should not be confused with TI Extended BASIC, which is sometimes called XBasic or X Basic. It should also not be confused with the proprietary Xbasic language used in Alpha Software's Alpha Anywhere and Alpha Five products. Version 6.2.3 was the last official release, released on 27 October 2002, however unofficial releases are still being maintained by a group of enthusiasts on

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Characteristics

XBasic has signed and unsigned 8-, 16- and 32-bit and signed 64-bit

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s as well as 32- and 64-bit floating point values. The string data type is only for 8-bit characters. It is possible to generate an

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file. XBasic has a Windows only version called XBLite. Development is at

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Components

* Editor (writing

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) *

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(creating machine code) * Debugger (checking for errors) *

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(ready made code to call on) * GuiDesigner (creates the graphical user interface for the program)

Example code

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References

External links

*https://groups.io/g/MaxReasonsxBasic *https://github.com/orgs/xbwlteam/repositories *
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