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ZBasicis acompilerwhich was first released by Simutek (Tucson, AZ) in 1980. The combined efforts of Andrew Gariepy, Scott Terry, David Overton, Greg Branche, and Halbert Laing led to versions forMS-DOS,Apple II,Macintosh,CP/M, andTRS-80computers. ZBasic is a very fast, efficient and quite advancedBASICcompiler with anintegrated development environment. It aims to be used as across-platformdevelopment system, where the same source code can be compiled to different platforms without any modifications.
ZBasic features device independent graphics: the same compiled code can work on different display resolutions and colors, and even in text mode. Original PC versions include graphical support up to EGA for MS-DOS.
A special feature of ZBasic is BCD (binary coded decimal) math with accuracy up to 54 digits. Another special feature is INDEX$ array, an array of variable length strings that could be easily sorted, searched etc.
In 1991, Harry Gish and 32 Bit Software Inc. (Dallas, TX) purchased the MS-DOS version. Nando Favaro expanded it to include 16 and 32 bit specific machine code as well asVGAandVESAvideo. Zedcor concentrated on the Apple Mac market and renamed itFutureBASIC.
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