ZBasic
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Scott Terry
David Overton
Greg Branche
Halbert Laing
| ZBasic | |
|---|---|
 ZBasic 4.7 (MS-DOS) | |
| Original authors | Andrew Gariepy Scott Terry David Overton Greg Branche Halbert Laing |
| Developer | Simutek |
| Initial release | 1980 |
| Platform | MS-DOS, Apple II, Mac, CP/M, TRS-80 |
ZBasic is a compiler for the BASIC programming language, with an integrated development environment, released by Simutek (of Tucson, Arizona) in 1980. The combined efforts of Andrew Gariepy, Scott Terry, David Overton, Greg Branche, and Halbert Laing led to versions for MS-DOS, Apple II, Mac, CP/M, and TRS-80 computers. It can be used as a cross-platform development system, where the same source code can be compiled to different platforms without any modifications. In the late 1980s, ZBASIC was maintained and sold by Zedcor.[citation needed]
In 1991, Harry Gish and 32 Bit Software of Dallas, Texas purchased the MS-DOS version. Nando Favaro expanded it to include 16- and 32-bit-specific machine code as well as VGA and VESA video. Zedcor concentrated on the Mac market and renamed it FutureBASIC.