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BASIC Dialects - Commercial
Despite Microsoft's move from VB6 to an all .NET strategy, there continue to be a variety of BASIC programming languages which attract programmers. Here are several lists which break out the various BASIC dialects, providing information to help you select the one that's best for you.

These lists are limited to only those dialects which will generate Windows EXE files.

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Freeware

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You may also find my section on comparison of language functions helpful in selecting a language for your programming needs.

Commercial BASIC
The usual benefit of these commercial offerings is more features, improved documentation, more frequent updates and better technical support.

In the list below I've separated out those dialects whose web sites indicate that gaming was a key goal in the development of the language. Of course, any of the products can create games but may not include special features dedicated to making game creation easy.

Language	Usage	Revision	Cost
BBC BASIC	General	v5.80a Jan 2008	$50
HotBasic	General	v5.6 Dec 2007	$89
HTBasic	General	v9.5 June 2007	$??
Liberty BASIC	General	v4.03 Jan 2006	$49
NSBasic	General	v3.0 Feb 2007	$80
Phrogram	General	v2.5 July 2008	$50
PowerBasic	General	v8.04 Oct 2007	$300
PureBasic	General	v4.2 May 2008	$125
RealBasic	General	v2008 Rel 3	$500
Ubercode	General	v1.2.0615 June 2008	125
VPBasic Pro	General	v1.0 Sept 2005	$50

Blitz BASIC	Games, 3D	Blitz3D 1.62	$100
Brutus2D	Games, 2D	v1.8.3 May 2008	$10
DarkBASIC	Games, 3D	v1.2 Oct 2007	$40
GLBasic	Games, 3D	v5.322 ~June 2008	120
Play Basic	Games, 2D	v.163 May 2008	$25

RapidBATCH Pro	Scripting	v5.1 ~2007	15

Run BASIC	WebApps	v1.0 b2.27 Jan 2007	$60

If you are aware of a BASIC dialect that should be on this list, please let me know.