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BASIC Dialects - Freeware
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.

Commercial
Freeware

Other
Most Popular

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

Freeware BASIC
These products are freeware - absolutely no cost. You'll be happy to hear that they compete very well with most of the commercial products.

BASIC-256 (KidBASIC)	General	v0.9.2 Mar 2007
Creative BASIC	General	v1.0 Sept 2007
D-LIB	General	v2.0 beta June 2007
Emergence BASIC	General	v1.63 Jun 2008
Euphoria	General	v3.1.1 Aug 2007
FBSL	General	v.3.3.4.7 July 2008
FNXBasic	General	v? Aug 2007
FreeBASIC	General	v0.18.5b Apr 2008
Gambas	General	v2.7 June 2008
GFA-Basic	General	v2.3 b1164 Dec 2007
Just BASIC	General	v1.01 July 2005
Kbasic	General	v1.7beta July 2008
thinBasic	General	v1.6.0.10 July 2008
XBLite (Xbasic child)	General	v2.4.0 April 2008

AutoIt	Scripting	v3.2.12.1 June 2008
ScriptBasic	Scripting	v2.0.0 May 2006
SmallBASIC	Scripting	v0.9.0 May 2004

Basic4GL	Games, 3D	v2.5.5 June 2008
Brutus2D	Games, 2D	v1.8.3 May 2008
sdlBasic	Games, 2D	v20070114 July 2007
XSTBasic	Games, 3D	v2.2 Feb 2007

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