What is PowerBASIC for Windows?

PowerBASIC is a compiler that allows BASIC programmers to write industry-standard DLLs and EXEs, using the familiar BASIC language:

EXEs created with PowerBASIC can do almost anything! With PowerBASIC, you have access to the entire Windows API, so you can write applications for almost anything you can dream up; from Archiving to Zipping, Server to Client, Utility to GUI application. With PowerBASIC, you can create applications that have a GUI front end, or data processing applications without a User Interface at all.
DLLs created with PowerBASIC can be used by programs written in any other language that supports 32-bit Windows DLLs, such as C/C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A PowerBASIC DLL can create a GUI interface or it can contain pure computational data-processing routines, or both.

PowerBASIC for Windows is the perfect solution for those Visual Basic programmers who have been looking for a way to optimize the time-critical sections of their programs, but have had neither the time nor the inclination to learn a whole new language.

PowerBASIC is the same familiar BASIC language with two important differences: compiled PowerBASIC code typically performs 3 to 23 times better than compiled VB code; and EXEcutables generated by PowerBASIC are typically 4 to 40 times smaller!

With PowerBASIC, source code is compiled into native machine code executable files that do not require any additional external run-time modules.

Advanced language features to help you produce lightning-fast, super-small executables… Welcome to PowerBASIC!