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- 'Welcome to Liberty BASIC v2.0, the easiest programming
- 'language around since 1992 (nearly a decade)!
- '
- 'We are excited to offer this easy to use programming
- 'language. Liberty BASIC has been featured by McGraw Hill
- 'and Ziff Davis, and also in a tutorial series in PC Plus
- 'magazine!
- '
- 'Thousands of people use Liberty BASIC to:
- '-Write useful software to solve real work problems!
- '-Create software for sale
- '-Create games
- '-Teach and learn programming
- '-Have fun
- '
- 'Here are some of Liberty BASIC's exciting features:
- '
- '-Patterned after the popular BASIC language!
- '-Structured programming with subprograms and functions!
- '-Create programs with a graphical user interface!
- '-Freeform GUI builder is included with source code!
- '-Call operating systems APIs and use 3rd party DLLs!
- '-Create games with sprite animation, sound, and music!
- '-Great internet community helps learn & provide support!
- '-Support for serial communications!
- '-Runtime engine supports creation of standalone programs!
- '
- 'What to do first? Here are some ideas:
- '-Look at some of the example programs
- '-Browse the help files
- '-Check out the internet resources (under the Help menu)
- '-Play a game (mayhem.bas, hanoi.bas, ttt.bas)
- '-Play with the Freeform GUI editor (under the Run menu)
- '
- 'Enjoy!
- '
- 'Note: To turn off this welcome screen, just click on the
- 'Setup menu, select Preferences. Then just turn off "Open
- 'this file on startup" or change the filename to something
- 'more suitable.
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- nomainwin
- run "winhelp.exe lb20w.hlp"
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