Introducing Liquid BASIC 3

Liquid BASIC is a simple and powerful BASIC interpreter for Windows. It's a great way to learn coding and logic, as well as develop quick and simple apps and tools, create retro-inspired games and demos, and much more!

Almost every home computer in the 1980's shipped with a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). BASIC is easy to learn and interactive. Commands can run as soon as they are entered, encouraging people to experiment and try new ideas. It's a great introduction to the world of coding.

Liquid BASIC stays true to the BASIC language, but also includes improved features and upgraded graphics and sound. Structured programming, functions, error handling, advanced array management, file access, database support, and artificial intelligence are all included!

The graphics engine makes 2D graphics easy! Screens and sprites are built from tile maps and bitmaps. Multiple screens can be "layered" on top of each other to create parallax scrolling, transparency, and other effects. There can be up to 256 sprites on-screen at once, and each one can be moved, scaled, rotated, tinted, mirrored, and flipped. Sprites also have collision detection to detect when two sprites collide.

The sound engine can load digital audio clips from several different file formats, and play up to 256 clips at once. It can even speak language in two different voices.

The artificial intelligence engine uses OpenAI and makes it simple and easy to ask Liquid BASIC questions and create content (even pictures!). It can even write BASIC code for you! (An OpenAI API Key is required to use the artificial intelligence features.)

Taken together, Liquid BASIC is a fun, powerful, and simple way to start coding and experimenting. And it's free for personal use!

• Familiar BASIC syntax
• Labels instead of line numbers for branching
• Structured programming (with block IF, SELECT, WHILE, DO, and FOR loops)
• Real (double precision float) and String (unlimited length) variables
• Robust set of built-in Real and String functions (e.g. regular expression support)
• User defined functions
• Error handling commands
• Arrays (with Fill, Insert, Delete, Reverse, Shuffle, and Sort)
• File commands
• Database commands
• Artificial intelligence commands for chatbots and image generation
• Graphics commands (TileSets, TileMaps, Bitmaps, Layers, and Sprites)
• Sound and voice commands
• ...and much more!!

•  Windows 10 (64-bit) or later
• .NET 4.72 framework
• OpenGL 3.3