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4th January 2016 |
New interview with Fred and freak about PureBasic & SpiderBasic
Happy New Year 2016, folks!
While
right before Christmas the bug-fixed and slightly improved LTS version
of PureBasic 5.41 was released, and SpiderBasic has
reached now the v1.10, I think it's time for a little surprice...
Get your PureBasic or SpiderBasic licence if you don't have yet! |
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28th October 2015 |
PureBasic 5.40 released - many great improvements!
The version 5.40 is again a so-called LTS-version, which will be maintained for 2 years (without changes to functionality / syntax) through 5.4x bug-fix releases. New commands / functions are reserved to parallel appearing new versions (v5.50 ff.). And like always free for registered users!
Who still does not have a licence for a full-version, can order it fast and easy about me (order-site + german FAQ-sites). |
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20th March 2015 |
For all registered PureBasic users the free access to the latest SpiderBasic versions was extended in the personal download account until mid-2015. The single-user licence costs 49 Euro - ordering generally online directly about Fred, about me (e.g. by bank-transfer like PureBasic) please ask!
After
the release of the first "final" SpiderBasic version,
which will of course be bug-fixed and further developed, Fred will
now intensively develop the next PureBasic version. Let us surprise
us - "when it's done..." |
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28th July 2014 |
PureBasic v5.30 final version released
After a longer beta-test phase the final version was released last week. PureBasic was further improved with new functions, e.g. a now fully unicode-compatible IDE, an 'Issue' tool (creates automatically 'ToDo' lists with functions to add or bugs to remove from special comments in the sourcecode), a complete new JSON library for data handling or the OpenGL gadget for easy including of OpenGL compatible 3D commands in a window area. For the complete list see the History!
See also the updated Update- and Download pages. Furthermore there is available the most up-to-date Online manual for PB 5.30+ - this one is available also as download here.
A word about the (starting with the v5.20) newly introduced LTS versions (LTS = "Long-time service"): Here the v5.20 will be updated with bug-fixes for 2 years, which don't change the function-set or the syntax. These versions will be released as v5.2x, next time the v5.23 LTS. At the same time PB is further developed, as the above mentioned new version 5.30 shows.
All versions you can access for free with your one-time paid full-version licence (for all supported OS) on your download account! Just get your full-version licence! |
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18th September 2013 |
PureBasic v5.20 final (LTS) released
Fantasie Software released an absolutely great update of the PureBasic package yesterday. After a longer beta-test phase this new version brings a long list of great additions - only some examples: new Module support
Furthermore a new service was introduced with this new version: "LTS" means "Long-time service" - for 2 years (until 17th Sept. 2015) the v5.20 will stay with its current functionality and syntax, but bug-fixes will be done for this version. In the meantime PureBasic evolves further and new versions (PB 5.30...) including this bug-fixes, but also new functions, probably (small!) syntax changes, etc. will be released. So everyone can use what he like - probably stay with PB5.20 LTS for maintaining his actual project, and use future PB versions for new projects...
And best of all - you buy the full-version licence once, but you will get every update and every new version (for all supported OS) for free!! Get your full version licence now!
You should also take a look to the PureBasic Blog. There Fred and freak released interesting articles about API changes and the new Module support. You also find the article about the "Anti-virus plague" (where AV tools are complaining about false positives in PB executables) there.
Show
your PureBasic game or application to the community and post it
in the PureArea.net
Showcase! So other PB users can rate and comment
your project... Thanks |
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22th May 2013 |
3D model and texture collection for PureBasic programmers
Beside his already announced book about 3D programming with PureBasic (see previous News) the author Andreas Groß now also offers a self-made CDROM with a collection of 3D models and textures.
Read more about it here! |
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29th April 2013 |
PureBasic in LinuxUser magazine - new book about 3D programming
The
german LinuxUser magazine wrote about PureBasic in its issue
of November 2012 as part of a comperative test with Gambas and BlitzMax,
where PureBasic got a quite good result. Click here for the (german)
article "GUI
programming made easy with Basic".
Let's see, in which magazines we will find PureBasic in 2013...
To help beginners with the start of programming 3D applications and games, and learning the use of the OGRE 3D engine, Andreas Groß has written a book. This he presents here (german only) - see also the "Books & Tutorial" section for more. |
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25th March 2013 |
PureBasic v5.11 final version
Just after the final release of the PB5.10 saw the light in February, Fred used the last weeks to polish this "Granted wishes release" a bit more and fixed several bugs at the compiler, the libraries and the IDE / Form Designer. More about this on the updated History, Update and Download sites.
You can also browse the Online manual for PB 5.11 - also for download here (+ french manual). The lately introduced Beginners chapter (User-Guide) included in the manual was a extended a bit too. More suggestions / help is welcome!
Fred made a statement about the regularly false alarms of anti-virus tools - read more in the PB Team Blog! |
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11th January 2013 |
PureBasic v5.10 "Beta" released
Like announced by Fred in the interview (see News of December 2012), he used the last months to spend a lot of time on bug-fixing and implementing long-time user wishes.
The whole package he also called "Granted wishes release" - and that's the true: only some of a real bunch of new features are line-continuation support in the IDE, FormDesigner integrated in the IDE, reworked packer functions, new system library, and many more. Read the whole impressive list in the PB Forum thread!
The "final" of PB5.10 should be out in some weeks - all registered users can already try the betas of the new versions. As updates are free - every order for a new licence is welcome! |
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16th December 2012 |
Big interview with Frederic Laboureur released
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18th November 2012 |
PureBasic v5.00 released!
It was a bit of a surprise: After releasing the first beta versions of PB4.70, Fred deciced to give it the version number v5.
If you look inside the package, this decision become clear: PureBasic supports now Windows, Linux and MacOS (on new Cocoa framework!) on 32 Bit as well 64 Bit, it got a brand-new FormDesigner (first time for all 3 platforms!) and also the features for 3D programming were massively improved.
Get it on your personal download accout! If you don't have yet, get your licence (valid for all OS, future updates included!) for only 79 Euro here!
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14th June 2012 |
PureBasic v4.61 released + new beginners chapter
"Fred is back!" - as he already told some time ago in the PureBasic Team Blog, he is back working full-time on PureBasic since mid of April. The first step was a whole bunch on bug-fixes and some more improvements - released at the end of May 2012 with the version 4.61 of PureBasic. More about this on the updated History, Update and Download sites.
Together with the Online manual for PB 4.61, which is also available now (also for download here) - there was integrated a new Beginners chapter (User-Guide) directly in the manual, which I have created with big help of 'spikey'. More suggestions / help is welcome!
Fred is working now very intensively on the further development of PureBasic. One thing, which he already told us, is the change of the MacOS version from Carbon to the new Cocoa GUI platform. More about this also in the PB Team Blog!! |
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27th January 2012 |
PureBasic v4.61 "Beta" / Update of the FAQ
A happy and successful New Year 2012 to all PureBasic users!
Just before the turn of the year Fred made happy many registered users with the first beta of the "bug-fix" release PB4.61. More will surely follow, before this new version is officially available...
On PureArea.net I've extended / updated the (german) FAQ - around questions about the PureBasic licence, ordering by dealers, commercial use, etc. |
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23th November 2011 |
PureBasic v4.60 "Final" released - happy Christmas time!!
After a long wait the "final" version is now out - grab the new full version in your personal Download Area or the demo version on www.purebasic.com.
All what is new or updated, can be read on the Update and History sites. The latest Manual for PB v4.60 is online as well (if you need: the manual for PB 4.50 still can be accessed here).
Why the new version of PureBasic has delayed and the users don't need to worry about the further development, Fred writes in the PureBasic Team Blog.
The PureArea.net Showcase had 400,000 vistors until now - join it and present your PureBasic project to the public!
Otherwise - happy and healthy Christmas time to you all! |
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18th September 2011 |
RC1 of PureBasic v4.60 released / PureBasic book for free download
The final release of PureBasic version v4.60 is near (after the beta phase the actual "Release Candidate 1" was released 2 weeks ago), you can look forward e.g. to many new 3D features including many included examples! At the moment it's excklusive to registered users, after the final release a new demo version will also be available. You can get the full version - licence with unlimited free updates - for Windows, MacOS and Linux together for only 79 Euro!
The best Book for PureBasic beginners (by 'Kale') is now available as free download - just look at the Book & Tutorial site! |
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27th May 2011 |
PureBasic v4.60 released as Beta / 10th anniversary of PureBasic It has taken longer time than usual but with the appearance of the first beta
PureBasic has celebrated its 10th anniversary in the meantime
too -
Unfortunately,
I had much too little time lately, to do anything on PureArea.net. So
there are "only" some news today. One PureArea.net helper of the first
hour, I would like to say THANK YOU again today and Bye bye: Benny is no longer active
in the
While I'm working on the manual for the new PB4.60 version, there was a lot of progress at our project "GeoWorld" (programmed with PureBasic) during the last year.
This
will certainly prove once more, that with PureBasic also larger
projects can easily be done cross-platform. See the screenshots
of the Windows- and MacOS-versions above! |
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14th July 2010 |
PureBasic v4.50 released / Download access for registered users of the DTP version
The brand-new PureBasic version is available now for all registered users of the full version for almost one month. About some important improvements I already reported on 3rd May 2010, for an overview about all new features and improvements look at the updated Download, Update and History sites. The newest Online manual for PB v4.50 is now online too.
With the release of PureBasic v4.50 registered users of the DTP version don't have access to the personal download account anymore, as they got only a one year update-right with their PureBasic version from the stores (german PureArea.net reported). This update-right has expired (mostly) already long ago. More from the point of view of the development team and about the upgrade offer I have posted in the (german) FAQ.
Here you go to the order site. |
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3rd May 2010 |
PureBasic v4.50 short before release!
With the release of PureBasic v4.40 at the end of the last year, the PureBasic authors Fred and freak announced, that they want to reduce the "release cycle" for new PureBasic versions to 3-4 months. The goal is some less new features per release, but more regular updates to PureBasic.
So here we are: while the v4.41 release was mostly a bug-fix only, the new v4.50 is already available a "beta3" to all registered users. While we got new features on the compiler side like Maps, Arrays and List in structures, also the IDE and the debugger were improved:
More interesting informations were released on the "PureBasic Team Blog". While I'm working on the new Manual about PureBasic v4.50 at the moment, the online edition will be released short after final release of v4.50. But
now I will go to my 2 weeks of holidays into the Turkey. As always my father will handle PureBasic orders in the meantime. Further questions etc. I'll answer when I'm back on 19th May.
And please also take a look at the PureArea.net Showcase, where many interesting projects developed with and for PureBasic can found! |
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31 January 2010 |
Price change for PureBasic upgrades
Short before the release of the "Bug-Fix" Version PB4.41 we have changed the upgrades prices according to the age (and smaller prices) of the PureBasic versions in stores. The regular full version (including all futures updates for free!) still costs 79 Euro.
More on the order site. |
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24th December 2009 |
Merry Christmas: PureBasic arrived in the final version v4.40!
PureArea.net wish all users a merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2010!
At this good time we got the "final" version of PureBasic v4.40, which brings again a lot of improvements. More informations and download on www.purebasic.com!
I've put online the latest Manual about PB, the Download, Update and History pages were updated as well, and I've done some work on the UserLibs. |
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20th August 2009 |
PureBasic v4.31 and thirst beta of brand-new PureBasic v4.40 out!
While
the v4.31 is mostly "only" a bug-fix release and available
to all PB users and interested people (as demo-version), all registered
users can already test since some days the first beta versions of
the forthcoming v4.40 release. This one brings many great additions
like: compiler improvements (new 'Threaded' scope keyword, new .a/.u
native types for unsigned byte/word), a new library for using hash-maps,
rewritten 2DDrawing support including alpha-channel and gradient
support, a greatly improved IDE with improved AutoComplete and Project-Management
as well Linux x64 version! You can get it in your personal download
account.
In the meantime I've updated the PureBasic docs and release the latest Online-manual PureBasic v4.31+ (original PB4.31 version with several improvements).
The new (german) FAQ site is now also linked in the updated order sites and sitemap. |
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1st May 2009 |
PureArea.net - great FAQ around PureBasic ordering, licences, updates vs. upgrades, etc. Because of much more questions in the last time (especially german costumers of the "3D Developer version" by DTP publisher), I've put online a lot of additional informations. These can all be found on the new (german only) FAQ site.
At the same time I say "Good bye" for the next 3 weeks, when I will be in holidays. In this time my father will handle orders. |
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12th March 2009 |
Timo 'Freak' Harter in interview!
While I'm still having a big time problem - today I can offer you a surprise: Timo gave me an interview with many interesting statements about himself and the PureBasic developing. Read more here.
You should also take a look regularly in the "PureBasic Team Blog" - there you can read interesting statements from the developers, which couldn't be found on the forums.
I'm myself are hopefully able to provide the next PureArea.net update soon... |
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19th December 2008 |
The great new PureBasic v4.30 is out in the final version! Get it in your personal download account. The new version brings many cool new things - some of the highlights: full support of 64 Bit processors, many updates to the included 3D OGRE engine, MacOS version supports now also x86. All the changes and improvements you can read in the History. Please be aware of the notes in the PureBasic Blog about converting from PB4.20 to PB4.30.
According to this release I've also updated the Update site and have uploaded a new online manual, the same in .chm format in the download section.
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21st September 2008 |
First public beta of PureBasic v4.30 released!
Due
to the lack of time no other updates today on PureArea.net - but
I want inform you, that a great new version of PureBasic becomes
reality
It brings many good news to the PB world - the most important are a 64 bit version for PureBasic (Windows), a x86 version of PureBasic for MacOS as well a big update of the 3D engine to the latest Ogre release. Read more in the official forum announcement.
Furthermore available is the new "PureBasic Blog" - where the programmers talk bit a bit about whats happening behind the sceness or also give useful hints for PureBasic programming (e.g. about converting PB4.x code to the new PB4.30). |
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30th May 2008 |
PureBasic
v4.20 is out!
"Good things come to those who wait" - with this slogan we could describe the long development time of the new PureBasic version. It is available now as final release for Windows, Linux & MacOS for all registered users in your download account. Fred has given us a very interesting look behind the scenes about all the many things (internally) changed and added for the new and great v4.20 in his (beta6) announcement on the PB forum.
According to this release I've updated the History and Update sites, and have also uploaded new online manual as well in .chm format in the download section. There was also added a combined "Reference manual & CodeArchiv" edition by Stefan Schnell.
I've updated the contact page and added new informations and pictures about the PB team. Also the Glossary, Links and SiteMap pages were updated.
Because
of the increasing number of presented DLL and developer tools I've
splitted the site into DLL and DevTools,
and have also added a new section about useful Include
files. I've added a lot of useful wrapper DLL made by Progi84 to
the DLL section, as well two new developer tool "highlights": PureGDK
& coffIT
I always search for suggestion to present new tools, programs, dlls, etc. on PureArea.net - what you can tell me you find in my posting on english PB forum.
Another bad information: the PureWiki is down since several weeks, too much spam-robots flooded the database. Don't know until now, what will happen with it in the future...
As usually my father will handle all orders for PureBasic & PureVisionXP during my holidays. Just be aware of the notes on the order site about complete data. Thanks! |
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22nd February 2008 |
PureBasic - new Upgrade prices & offer
As the "Topos" version is now already available for five years in the stores (and the prices were decreased during the time), the upgrade to the full version costs now 69 Euros.
Newly available: All buyers of "PureBasic 4 - 3D Developer" from DTP publisher (more -german- informations here) can now get the regular full version with unlimited free updates for 39 Euros. Just send me a e-mail with your full address as well dealer and date of purchase (if you have already, please also add the account data of the 1-year-limited download account).
Here you go the the order page. |
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13th February 2008 |
PureBasic v4.2 beta available + new Visual Designer alpha16!
Also on PureArea.net I made several updates: In the ares UserLibs (Note: the table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers) and Dll/DeveloperTools there were added a wide collection of useful dll and tools around the programming with PureBasic. Included some real highlights like the PBBT userlib package, with Conductor Lite a professional music library or the CodeArchiv v4 in .chm format. Also the Tutorial section I've a bit reworked, some tutorials are online now in a PB v4 compatible version.
Especially for all german-speaking people (because there are different PureBasic versions in the shops) I've created a (german) information site about their differences. Get your regular full version here on my site!
On the english sites of PureArea.net we reach the 100,000 visitor within the next days (probably on 16./17. February). Many thanks for your interest! |
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19th November 2007 |
PureBasic v4.1 for Windows, Linux and MacOS released!
After
a long break because of several private reasons I can offer you
today a new update on PureArea.net
We are starting with the breaking news: a bit more than 1 week ago there was released the new PureBasic 4.10 version - for the first time on all three supported platforms at once. So also the MacOS has now it's first "final" v4 release.
You find new Drag & Drop, XML and Scintilla libraries in this release, also MS Vista compatibility was added. Read more in the History and Update sections.
So also the online manual was updated for PureBasic v4.1. For the first time the PureBasic documentation is now also available in PDF format (two versions: "full" with all libraries, "small" without library descriptions). See the download section.
As a little surprise I can show you today the first official pictures of all PureBasic team members! Read more about the PureBasic Team Meeting!
Then I've also updated the UserLibs section to their latest versions and I've also added several new libs.
I want to suggest you the PureArea ShowCase again - there you can show your PureBasic projects to the public!
Everyone interested to buy a PureBasic licence (with free life-time updates) can do it here. Donations by already registered users are possible in your personal download account. |
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16th June 2007 |
In the meantime there is available PureBasic for Windows already in version v4.10 as Beta version with many useful additions like native Drag & Drop, XML and Scintilla support - like always in your personal download account. For this I have invested a lot of time in the (german) manual, so the CodeArchiv is not much further as the release from May 2007.
I'll
be away because of two weeks vacations in Bulgaria from
17th June till 1st July. Please be aware of this, when you don't
get a reply during this time. Thank you for your patience But: in the usually way my father will handle all orders for PureBasic & PureVisionXP during this time. Just be aware of the notes on the order site about complete data. Thanks!
Yesterday we reached 80,000 visitors on the english sites of PureArea.net since the start on 29th August 2003. Thanks for your interest! |
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6th May 2007 |
CodeArchiv v4 as Beta version released!
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11th March 2007 |
Yesterday we reached 80,000 visitors on the english sites of PureArea.net since the start on 29th August 2003. Thanks for your interest!
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7th January 2007 |
Welcome 2007 - Happy New Year to all PureBasic users!
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17th December 2006 |
PureBasic for AmigaOS will not be developed further anymore. Because of this, Frederic Laboureur has decided to release it as OpenSource (except the compiler) - you can get it on PureBasic.com! PureBasic v4 Linux is still in beta stage and there are also done several bug-fixes to PureBasic v4 for Windows - so there is also a small update (PureBasic v4.01) available in your personal download account on PureBasic.com.
Today I've extended the section of the Developer Tools with several cool new tools: DirectX 9c and OpenGL includes for PureBasic, a new (unofficial) TailBite version and more tools by gnozal. Because of the often missed Midas11.dll (needed for PB/Windows Module Library) I've also included the HouseMarque Audiosystem in the DLL section. There is also shown the new Etna (stands for "Easy daTabase Network Access") DLL.
Furthermore I've updated the UserLibs with latest versions and also new ones, e.g. the Irrlicht 3D engine wrapper. And also the Links were updated - e.g. the first russian PB sites are present now.
And
finally I've put online the nearly fully to PB v4 converted CodeArchive
(the older PB3.93 codes are still available) - a download package
will be released, when it's done... |
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30th October 2006 |
PureBasic v4 for Linux - first public beta is out!
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8th October 2006 |
There are several more updates on PureArea.net available: PureBasic Reference Manual is available in its latest version (newer than original PB v4 package) and still also for PB v3.94 - both online and for download. As well the download section in general was updated and the WinAPI32 help guide included.
With the K-NetLib a very powerful dll network package (inluding needed PureBasic include files as well the source) was released as freeware.
You can also get new tutorials about programing with PureBasic.
Also the Links section was updated (not working links changed/deleted) and also extended with some new links. If you want to be added - just drop me a mail! The Sitemap of PureArea.net is now also up-to-date.
We are making good progress with converting the CodeArchiv to PB v4 - current status report and also a "Help needed!" call (for converting last missing codes) is regularly posted on german forum. Any help is welcome!
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17th September 2006 |
Back from wonderful holidays on my South America trip through Peru - Bolivia - Chile in July/August 2006!
Of course I'm back in Germany already since middle of August, but I was very busy until now. Especially I'm investing a lot of my spare time into converting the CodeArchiv to PB v4, so a new version should be out in .... weeks. Anyway we can need help, a list of unconverted codes can be read on german forum.
There is a new book about PureBasic available:
"PureBasic - A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming" got already a lot of positive feedback from PB beginners and advanced coders. With the release of this second (commercial) book about PureBasic I extended the Tutorials section on PureArea.net also with a small book chapter.
In the Developer tools section I present today three new tools: EasySetup, ProgiToDo and PureForm. More updates on PureArea.net should follow soon... |
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16th July 2006 |
But before I've updated the Update and History sites to reflect the latest improvements to PureBasic v4 (Windows). Also the changes from older PB version v3.94 are available.
PureBasic v4 for Linux is further progressing, first alpha versions should be available soon. When the first beta versions will be available to registered users I can't say yet.
Today I release also the latest improvements to the PureBasic manual, which where done after the official v4 release in May. You can download CHM manuals here: English (1,1 MB without IDE screenshots), French (2 MB with IDE screenshots), German (2 MB with IDE screenshots). English online manual for PB v4 is available here.
Furthermore I've updated the Userlibs site again - it contains now 218 (!) libs for PureBasic Windows (v4, v3.94 and older), for Linux and more.
The winners of the PureBasic SummerContest 2006 were elected too: the winner is Remi Meier (will get the USB 300 MB harddrive soon), 2nd place Siegfried Rings (will get a 30 € Amazon voucher) and 3rd place goes to Marc-Sven 'Hroudtwolf' Rudolf (will get a 20 € Amazon voucher). Congratulations!
I
will be away on a large holiday trip to South America from 17th
July till 13th August. So please remember this, when you don't
get a reply within this time. Thanks for your appreciation But: as always my father will process all PureBasic & PureVisionXP orders during this time. Be aware of the notes on the order site. Thanks! |
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18th June 2006 |
Developer tools and Userlibs for PureBasic v4 (Windows)
Today you find on PureArea.net many useful new and updated developer tools as well userlibs around PureBasic v4. More to come... |
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12th June 2006 |
But the work goes on - I'm still working hard on an improved PB v4 help. It will be released very soon here on PureArea.net! (Current status of the german online help can be viewed here - tell me your meaning about the IDE screenshots. Should they also be included in the english help, also when it blows to 2 MByte because of this?)
To
reduce the time to wait, I release today a very interesting (I think
so) Interview with Berikco,
the author of the Visual Designer included in the PB package. Thanks
goes to 'Dare2'
Another update on PureArea.net (e.g. with the first new userlibs for PB v4) I will do within the next days... Stay tuned! |
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16th May 2006 |
After many months of hard work the long awaited, containing a huge set of new features, new version of PureBasic was released on 10th May 2006. The complete News you can read here.
All registered users (becoming the update for free!) have yearning waited for it. Also you as prospective buyer can test PureBasic by downloading the Demoversion and if you like it, order it. (Please not the changed prices.)
At this point I want to spread the word about the PureBasic SommerContest (more informations on the PB forums), for which the deadline is the 22th May 2006. Please send your contest entry to SummerContest@PB-Club.de - you can win valuable prices like an extern 300 GB USB-HardDisk (if there are at least 10 contest entries) as well Amazon vouchers.
By
the way ... the
price for the winner of the WinterContest 2005/06 could dust DarkDragon
(photo of evidence). Congratulations!
More
news and updates of more PureArea.net sites are following soon... |
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17th April 2006 |
PureBasic v4 (Windows) near the final release Like Frédéric Laboureur told, the final release of PureBasic v4 is not far away - registered PureBasic users can already use the tenth beta version.
Because with the new version 4 many older UserLibs will need a rework and a new compilation, I've extended the related UserLibs section on PureArea.net with two new columns: OS and for which PB version a userlib was created. There are already available the first PB4 compatible UserLibs - also the PBOSL Package is available in a first Alpha version for PB v4, more informations in the related Forum thread.
Beside
this a visit in the PureArea.net
ShowCase is of course worth-while,
because dedicated users offer their new tools and games there. As
one of them a very good tool, which helps a lot when converting
older v3.94 sources to the v4 syntax, is available. |
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5th March 2006 |
PureBasic v4 (Windows) goes its way to the "final". Myself I'm working intensively on the (German) documentation.
Therefore I ask for your understanding, that I hadn't the time for updates on www.PureArea.net in the last weeks.
To all registered users, which are already working with the new v4 or maybe still with the previous version v3.94, I want to suggest again the participation on the PureBasic WinterContest 2005/2006. |
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05th February 2006 |
PureBasic v4 (Windows) - first Beta is out!
The final version will need several weeks for finishing (beside bug-fixes also creating a manual update to reflect all new/changed functions). There are also several syntax changes to make PureBasic's code more clean and logical. So its strongly recommended to further use a second installation of the current PB3.94, e.g. to finish your existing projects (if you don't want to adapt them to new PB v4).
I've also done an update to the UserLibs section. Please note, that most userlibs (especially the ones created with TailBite) will not work with PB v4. They must be recompiled by their authors first. Also the PBOSL team is currently updating the open-source userlib collection to work with PB v4.
The
deadline for sending contributions to the large PureBasic
WinterContest 2005/2006 was extended to the first day of
spring - the 20th March 2006. So you have the possibility
to create your cool contributions already with PureBasic v4 - but
hurry to win attractive prices!
Any help to further extend PureWiki - the PureBasic online documentation project from PB users and for PB users - is welcome too. |
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15th January 2006 |
Nothing
special in the News today - all are waiting for PB v4
We have again updates to the large UserLibs section.
Think about adding your PureBasic game or tool to the ShowCase, to show other people your great work. There is also time left to participate in the large PureBasic WinterContest 2005/2006 and win attractice prices - but hurry, on 13th February 2006 will be the last day to send your contribution! |
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30th December 2005 |
Bad News: English and German forums are down! Like you may have already noticed, the forums are not reachable since yesterday. After the work on PureBasic v4 has progressed well until Christmas, Fred is on vacations at his family till 2nd January. Before that date there probably willn't be any re-start of the forums...
Please use the time until then to take a look into the ShowCase. There were added several new projects. But probably you have also the desire to show your tool, game, etc. to the public!?
I
wish everyone a happy and sucessful New Year 2006 One
highlight for us PB programmers is not far away - the long-awaited
version 4 of PureBasic (Windows).
An exact release date of the first public beta (for
registered users only) wasn't
announced, but the alpha versions are already succesfully in use
at several testers...
Finally
on 22nd December we could welcome the fifty-thousand visitor
on english pages of PureArea.net after almost two years online.
Big thanks for the mostly positive feedback I got during this time... You're welcome to write something in my guestbook. Thanks! |
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18th December 2005 |
The PureWiki got its own button in the left frame so you can find it easier than now. Everyone is invited to join the large PureBasic online documentation project.
There is a new Tutorial link available and the UserLibs and Links sections were updated.
As several people asked me in the past how they can donate something for all the help they got on PureArea.net I've added a "PayPal Donate" button in the left frame. Donations will be used for the costs of running the website as well for supporting PB developers or supporting programming contests with prices. |
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20th November 2005 |
Today we have "only" a smaller update on PureArea.net - now we offer 174 UserLibs in their latest versions for downloading. |
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23rd October 2005 |
Large Interview with Frédéric Laboureur released. You ever wanted to know more about the man behind PureBasic? Then read the exclusive Interview, for which Frédéric was so kind to answer me a lot of interesting questions about himself and the past and future of PureBasic.
After the release of the new PureBasic MacOS X version I've now also updated the Download, Update and History pages on PureArea.net. Further updates done on PureArea.net: new developer tools are presented in the DevTools section, updated UserLibs are available and also Contact page and SiteMap were updated. Have fun!
PS: There was a downtime problem of PureArea.net today and yesterday - it was related to the hoster and should be solved for the future. |
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3rd October 2005 |
The work on PureBasic v4.0 has started! After v3.94 of PureBasic for Linux (News and Download) appeared in between, now also the official release of the first final MacOS version is still to come. After that Fred will spend his time very intensive on the long-awaited version 4 of PureBasic.
While
the english sites on PureArea.net await the 50,000 visitor soon,
there has happened a lot in the PureBasic community: new and updated UserLibs (now
already 168 !!!) were released (included also some highlights like
Epyx new FX lib with Amiga demo effects as well updates to the PBOSL
package),
for the PB IDE v3.94 (Windows) there is available now a Swiss-german
catalog by Rico 'GreenSnake' Beti, in the
ShowCase were added a lot new
tools & games and also the PureWiki
project is growing well.
I have uploaded all updated codes included in the CodeArchive Preview also into the CodeArchive, so they are already available online till the release of the final v2.0.
Furthermore the Reference manual for PureBasic v3.94 in its latest revision was uploaded and also the Links section was extended again.
More interesting news should follow soon.... |
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23rd August 2005 |
Updates on PureArea.net will be available again after the 8th Sep. 2005. |
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31st July 2005 |
Many incredible News around PureBasic!
The version v3.94 of PureBasic is near to the final release - and this not only for Windows, as well for Linux and for the first time in a public MacOS version! In only some weeks it should be ready - until then: the latest beta versions you can grab in your personal Download-Account...
The CodeArchiv v2.0 is available in a preview version together with the new C.A.V. tool - look, read & test in the ShowCase.
The
new PBOSL package (PureBasic OpenSource Libraries) is online
now. This package contains many famous and also new command libraries
by Danilo, Rings and other authors, which are now freely available
according to the GPL licence. The libs can now be improved or ported
to other PureBasic platforms by the community. Notice the PureArea.net
site pbosl.purearea.net
Because of this also the UserLibs section was updated, because many libs are now part of the PBOSL package. Also the Links to PureBasic related sites were extended again and there is a new ASM Tutorial.
And finally the PureBasic Documentation Project was brought together. It is writing on a PureBasic UserGuide in the stil of the Wikipedia. If you want help - interested people (which probably also want to do other language conversions) can contact me! |
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10th June 2005 |
Now there are 149 UserLibs in their latest release available on PureArea.net. More news to be announced soon... |
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22th May 2005 |
New PureBasic versions for Linux and MacOS soon! In
your personal Download-Account
you can get new Beta versions of the v3.93 for Linux (forum-thread)
and MacOS (forum-thread).
For the first time the Linux version contains the new IDE and a
powerful debugger, both will hopefully be implemented into the other
PureBasic versions soon. Also from the VisualDesigner
there is available a little bugfix update to the final version v3.92
- but this one will not be continued, Berikco is creating a complete
new VD.
Today
the Links section was completely reworked
and extended - with now more than 150 links around PureBasic this
should be the largest collection of the world on PureArea.net... |
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16th May 2005 |
Some small updates on PureArea.net today: You can get new and updated UserLibs, the developer section was also updated with latest stable version of El Choni's TailBite and several useful tools of 'gnozal'. |
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5th May 2005 |
The PureBasic forums have moved! Frederic has changed the service provider because of the many problems lately. Currently the german and the english forum are reachable under the following links: http://forums.purebasic.com (English) http://forums.purebasic.com/german/ (German)
More news on PureArea.net soon... |
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31st March 2005 |
PureVisionXP now also available in Germany/Europe! Because of a cooperation with ReelMedia Productions I can now offer - beside PureBasic - also this professional GUI designer for only 25 Euro. More informations here! |
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6th March 2005 |
Since several days the new PureBasic v3.93 version for Windows is available, download in your personal account on www.purebasic.com (all the news about the update you find here). Since today we offer 125 UserLibs - all in their latest available version! Please note, that with PureBasic 3.93 some internal changes was done, so that UserLib done with TailBite must probably recompiled with latest PB 3.93. Yesterday we reached 30,000 visitors on
the english sites of PureArea.net since the start on 29-Aug-2003,
actually already more than 70 visitors per day... |
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13th February 2005 |
Smaller update of PureArea.net: there are new or updated UserLibs, as well the Links and Tutorials were updated. |
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30th January 2005 |
PureBasic v3.92 (final) for Linux was released, download in your personal account on www.purebasic.com. There are fabulous 114 UserLibs available now, including new ones for playing OggVorbis music files (inkl. streaming), AutoIt v3, the Irrlicht3D engine or userlibs for handling of COM objects. The updated Links are now also containing another possibility for easy online sharing of PB codes with PureBasic SCD. With Scattles a promising beat'em up is in development. The Showcase reached today its first 5000 visitors since start on 17-Nov-2004. Please participate regularly, with showing new projects as well voting and commenting of them. |
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23rd January 2005 |
PureBasic for Linux was released in a new beta version of upcoming v3.92. News about this in the english forum. Because of a training course I'm not reachable from 01/24 - 01/28/2005 - please be patient, if a reply to your mail need a bit longer than else. |
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9th January 2005 |
Happy and healthy New Year 2005 to all PureBasic users! Today you can download new and updated UserLibs, there are also more Links and Tutorials available. To reduce the time waiting for the new CodeArchive a bit, you can see three screenshots of C.A.V. - the offline browser "CodeArchivViewer" here:
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21st December 2004 |
More UserLibs were released in new versions, with MiniFMod by 'traumatic' you can now also get a PB3.92 compatible version of the compact XM-Sound-System. If you are able to help with creating more localizations (beside english & german) for the Showcase and the coming new release of the CodeArchive (a beta version is probably available around end of year) please contact me at andre@purearea.net. Thanks! |
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8th December 2004 |
The UserLibs have broken a little barrier, there are 102 releases available now. And as always you get the latest actual versions on PureArea.net. Also the Links to PureBasic user sites have been expanded again. |
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28th November 2004 |
While creating a localized version of the Showcase is still in progress and also the new CodeArchive is in its last stages, I have done several updates to the PureArea.net sites. The News were splitted (older News are available separately), a new section DLL+Tools was extracted from the former project sites, the Contacts page was extended, a SiteMap added, as well several new UserLibs and an updated version of the SQL tutorial. The Links were updated and especially extended with french users. And finally the Manual for PureBasic v3.92 is now online, which will be available for download after several more extensions + corrections as .chm file in the next weeks. |
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17th November 2004 |
The
PureArea.net
Showcase is online
now in its first version. Thanks
to Epyx for his great work on this we start already now with the
german Showcase, which isn't localized yet. But feel free to register
your account already now and become part of the active PureArea.net
users.
Localization
will come in a short time, more news on english PureArea.net sites
next week. |
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25. October 2004 |
PureBasic v3.92 for Windows was released. Download of the update in your personal account. More about the contents you can read here. |
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26th September 2004 |
As a small intermediate update before the bigger 'News', today there are again new or updated UserLibs as well an update of the PureBasic SQL Tutorial. Today we reached 20,000 visitors since start of the english PureArea.net
pages
on 28th September 2003. |
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12th September 2004 |
I'm
back from wonderful holidays.
Today
were updated the UserLibs and extended
the Links sections. More great additions
to this website are on their way for coming weeks... |
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20th August 2004 |
Just a short notice, so that no-one misses me or gets impatient, if an answer needs a bit longer:
Unfortunately the new release of the CodeArchive isn't ready yet, but it will be released in september (incl. "CAV" - the CodeArchiveViewer), promised!
Today I have put online the latest versions of the UserLibs FastFile, FMod and miniFmod. |
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18th July 2004 |
PureBasic v3.91 for Linux was released. Get it in your secured download account. Today the UserLibs and Links were updated and there are new and updated releases in the Application and Game sections. If you want to promote your own programs, games, developer tools, etc. on PureArea.net simply write me a mail. |
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4th July 2004 |
The final PureBasic v3.91 (Windows) version was released. Read more on the Update page. If not already registered try the demo and register here. Important notice: from now on you can get the updates/full versions only at your secure download account, you should have got the login informations for. If not, write to the PB Support, where you've ordered your full version. |
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27th June 2004 |
The
UserLibs section was updated with all
the latest releases of PB coders. Also the Links
were updated... |
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23rd May 2004 |
Several updates to the UserLibs as well the DLLs, Developer-Tools and Tutorials were done. There will be released new programs and games next days and also the long awaited new release of the CodeArchive is (hopefully) not far away. But please note: from 30th May until 6th June I will be at vacation. |
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2nd May 2004 |
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25th April 2004 |
New version of Danilo's PureTools and more new/updated UserLibs are available. You can get TailBite in a new version and there was also released the ZX Sound System. |
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12th April 2004 |
The
new PureBasic 3.90 is out! Read more about the improvements
on the Update page. Get your update now!
If not already registered try the demo
and register here. |
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26th March 2004 |
The Projects
section was splitted into its five sub-areas (because of its large
size) and extended with new DLL, developer tools, applications and
games. Two new UserLibs and an Online-Tutorial
were added as well the Links
completely reworked. |
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9th March 2004 |
With TailBite 1.0 its possible to create your own PureBasic userlibs with 'pure' PureBasic. Look at the developer section of the Projects. |
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7th March 2004 |
You will find new games & demos (e.g. the 3D game UFO OnSlaught), new and updated applications and a new entry in the showcase in the Projects section. In the meantime with the RegExpEx library was also released the first UserLib for PureBasic-Linux. Furthermore there are new and updated Links. |
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10th February 2004 |
There are some new and updated User-Libs as well a new Tutorial about event-handling with PureBasic (german only). |
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20th January 2004 |
The CodeArchive in
version 1.8
now offers 1302 (!!) example codes for PureBasic. Newest PB-Constants v3.81
are available for download. Beside other news and updates in
the Projects section there
are also a new UserLib as well two
fantastic OpenGL-Demo by Traumatic! But
that's still not all: PureArea.net now have a Search-Function,
which you can use to search the website contents and especially the CodeArchive.
A big Thank you
to Benny Schütz (PHP programming), Denis (french translation) as
well Florian 'Deu.exe' Fischer and Erik 'Papillion' Fröhlich
(help at german CodeArchive descriptions). |
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4th Janury 2004 |
PureBasic v3.81 for Linux* was released on 1st January 2004. On PureArea.net there are many new games and applications as well a new DLL, providing EyeToy functions with PB, in the Projects section. Additionally there were released new and updated User-Libs. (* The new full version can be ordered by all registered users at the support, where you registered PureBasic.) |
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21st December 2003 |
There are news in many sections: new User-Libs and Tutorials, more Links, new tools, applications and games in the Projects, Online-Manual in latest revision, and additionally now also as extra Download. |
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9th December 2003 |
PureBasic v3.81 released. Added some games to the Projects page, two updated User-Libs and some more Links. |
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1st December 2003 |
The Code-Archive in version 1.7 reaches already fantastic 1090 (!!) PureBasic example codes. I would also be happy about many nice entries in the new Guestbook. |
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23rd November 2003 |
Added the Projects page - look at the amazing world of PureBasic Dll's, developer-tools, applications & games! Updated also the Links & Tutorials sections. |
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16th November 2003 |
With the release of a new userlib (APM) the User-Libs page was converted to PHP. The table could now be sorted after name, version, date, author & size by simply clicking on the column header. Big Thanks to Benny for his help! |
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1st November 2003 |
The
largest update in the present history of PureArea.net:
(Sorry, the projects & glossary pages need time for translating, you can take a look at the german projects page in the meanwhile, if you like.) |
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19th October 2003 |
Several new or updated User-Libs released. |
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28th September 2003 |
English
section of www.purearea.net goes online. The Code-Archive is available now already in version 1.5 with exactly 800 example codes. Missing pages Manual, Projects & Glossary will be available with the next larger website update. (If you find grammar & spelling errors on the website feel free to tell me at andre@purearea.net - Thank you!) |
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15th June 2003 |
First version of the PureBasic-CodeArchive released. |
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SpiderBasic 1.00 released - Further development of PureBasic
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... I would also be happy about positive votes in the 
