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IT-Consultant: José Roca (PBWIN 10+/PBCC 6+) (Archive only)

These are the valuable Contributions from Jose Roca. As he has marked his Forum "Archive only" I have moved it into the Archives Section.
Discussion
Discussions about Windows programming with PBWIN 10+ and PBCC 6+

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CSED Editor
A programmer's editor for the PB/WIN and PB/CC compilers.

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Windows API Headers
A translation of the Windows API headers to PowerBASIC™. Includes other APIs such OpenGL and DirectX.

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TypeLib Browser and Other Tools
A tool for browsing and exploring type libraries and generate PowerBASIC™ compatible source code.

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Windows API Programming
Articles, tutorials and examples on Windows API programming with PBWIN 10.02+ and PBCC 6.02+

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COM Programming
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Oxygen BASIC Resources
This Board contains Download Links, Tables with important data to look up, and things that are often needed and should not get lost.

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OxygenBasic
OxygenBasic and prior experiments in programming Languages and Opengl

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OxygenBasic Examples
Demo code using the o2 compiler.
(formerly short code)

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Assembler

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GLSL
Opengl Shader Language

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Software Design and Development Issues

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Other PC OS Distributions
There are many Linux and other OS distributions, and VM lets us run more than one on our PCs.

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Discussion
Computing concepts and ideas, real and surreal.

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General Tips and Discussion
This is the universal place in my subforum. For everything that does not find anywhere else.

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Advanced Datatypes
Datatypes are the most important topic in Programming. Using the right datatype help to speed up tasks significantly and to reduce bugs.

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AI / ChatGPT / Claude AI / LM Studio / AGI
In this Board we will discuss AI Topics.

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3D Graphic Tools
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PowerBasic Adventures
This Board is for Compiler specific Topics and issues that are undocumented.

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Low Level Code Optimization
General Tipps and Tricks to speed up your code.

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Deutsches Board (IT-Themen)
Wer total keine Lust hat, extra englisch zu lernen, der kann hier posten.

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Hier gebe ich Updates zu ProviCALC bekannt. Poste hier wenn du Fragen und Anregungen zu ProviCALC hast. Oder schreib mir an: theo.gottwald[at]it-berater.org

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SDK and Third Party Know-How

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More Links, Infos and Tools
This Board is for non-PowerBasics related News, Topics and tools to look at.
To prevent Link-Spamming, it's only available for registered Forum Members.

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Crypto-Currencies (Bitcoin and others)
Crypto-Currencies are a new Trend, because they anable just anybody to print their private Money.
Lets talk about it, as these also have to do with Computers.

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Compiler Explorer: Disassemble C-Code into ASM
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Mistral AI Chat
"Mistral Large" is a very capable Model that can generate usable PowerBasic Code. It can be user-configured via using the @-Sign.

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Minimax M1 Agent
MiniMax agent, M1, is a high-standard, versatile AI that processes text, PDFs, images, and links as well as complex scientific tasks.

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Minimax M1 Chat
M1 chat is MiniMax AI's advanced conversational AI that combines versatile input processing with rigorous task execution, for both simple queries and complex scientific challenges.

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Grok AI from Elon Musk
Grok 3, built by xAI, excels in reasoning, offers vast, updated knowledge, analyzes content, searches web, assists users naturally.

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AI-Studio from Google
Google's AI Studio is a fantastic new opportunity. With a context window of between one million and two million tokens, you can provide extensive example code.

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Deepseek 3 - AI from China
Deepseek R1 is an advanced AI model, the first of a new generation of Reinforcement Learning Models. Currently its often "busy". Because its as good as o1 and free.

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TÜLU 3 - 405B KI
TÜLU 3 is a project by TÜBİTAK to advance Turkey's space technology and satellite capabilities. It aims to develop national satellites and strengthen the local aerospace industry. This initiative is key to Turkey's goal of becoming a prominent player in the global space sector.

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Qwen AI - another strike from China
Qwen 3 MAX is currently the stronges Nutcracker for difficult code. Context-Window should be a bit above 200.000 Token.

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Chat GLM
One of my favourites. Not that large Context but very good for small Subprograms and very able to crack hard nuts.

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LMSYS Chatbot Arena: Benchmarking LLMs in the Wild
LMSYS Chatbot Arena: Benchmarking LLMs in the Wild: Ask any question to two anonymous models (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Llama) and vote for the better one! You can chat for multiple turns until you identify a winner. Votes won't be counted if model identities are revealed during the conversation.

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PUMP Powerbasic Meeting Point
Du kennst hoffentlich "PUMP" (betrieben von Albert Richheimer), da haben sich alle PB-Refuges versammelt.

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The WEB-Paper: https://rentry.org/
Publish your Ideas and Whitepapers here.

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Smart-Package Robot Board

News and Announcements

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Smart-Package Robot Tipps and Code

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Download Smart Package Robot
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Purebasic-Tipps and Code

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As PureBasic is much alive and gets better with each new version, i think its time to have a place for it here.

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Purebasic WEB-Site and Download
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Purebasic Forum - Assembler
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Other Languages and Projects

Here we will park other Languages which currently may not have much supporters here.
x64 Board
As long as there is no PowerBasic64, we need to use something aside from that. This Forum shows some options.

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ADW Modula Corner
ADW Modula is a very clean compiler language that supports 342 as well as 64 bit executables.
It has a superior Debugger that goes doen to the ASM level and comes with a lot of samples.

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microA Interpreter

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Visit our Museum

Our PowerBasic Museum will show you old Backups of this Forum as well as other PowerBasic Resources. Doing so, the linking will increase our chances to be spidered and parsed by AI's. In the future this will lead to more understanding of Powerbasic. In the Museum, you can log in, but you can not change or delete anything, because this is the way, a Museum works. You can see it, but you can not change or delete it.
Museum 2017
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Its recovered from a 2020 Database to let you remember the old times.

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Museum 2023
This is not yet a Museum, but it will be in the future. Its also Read Only, and most attachments should be available for download.

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Jose's API Documentation
This links to an WEB-Site Jose did some Years ago, with lots of Resources.

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Jose Roca Github
This is Jose's Github. I see just 2 Projects, but take a Look.

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MASM-Forum
Visit the official MASM-Forum, it has also a lot of Resources for PB-Users.

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Official PowerBasic Forum
This is the Link to the official PowerBasic Forum. The most used Resource for PowerBasic in the WEB.

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Planet Squires Forum
This is the Forum from Paul Squires a long Year Contributor for PowerBasic. Currently he concentrates on other BASIC Systems. He is also the Creater of Firefly for PowerBasic, which is not continued as by today.

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Franks Subforum

In this Subforum Frank can introduce his projects.
Franks Basic 2024 (32 Bit)
🚀 Welcome to Franks Basic! 🚀 🛠️ Like FreeBasic and Oxygen Basic, but crafted with passion! 📈 PS: The only Source of this Software is also here. 😊👾🎓

Moderator: Frank Brübach

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IT-Consultant: James C. Fuller

Discussion
Discussions about my BASIC interests

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BCppX
Basic to Visual c++. Another BCX Fork

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bc9Basic
bc9Basic is a Basic to c/c++ translator

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Last post: January 12, 2019, 10:13:24 AM Re: I escaped by James C. Fuller

UbxBasic
Cross Platform (Windows/Linux) Basic to c/c++ translator

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Last post: May 12, 2016, 08:42:16 PM UbxBasic Released by James C. Fuller

IT-Consultant: Frederick J. Harris

Time For 64 Bit COM!
Using C Or C++ For Creating 64 Bit COM Code

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Visual Basic And PowerBASIC Interoperability Issues
Issues related to conversions, interoperability, etc.

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PowerBASIC Programmer's Survival Guide To C And C++
Interoperating between C/C++ & PowerBASIC

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ODBC Database Access
Connecting/Accessing Databases Using Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity Api

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Fred's API (Application Programming Interface) Tutorials
Frederick J. Harris tutorials on Windows Programming

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Fred's COM (Component Object Model) Tutorials
COM Programming, Issues, Samples

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or for freelancer projects, post here.

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I have something to do (Seeking Programmer or Freelancer)
If you seek for programmer or freelancer, post here.
Please also delete the post once the project ends.

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Legacy Software (PBWIN 9.0+/PBCC 5.0+)

Headers, Wrappers, Controls and Tools
Headers, wrappers, controls and tools for Windows programming with PBWIN 9.0+ and PBCC 5.0+

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Articles, tutorials and examples on Windows API programming with PBWIN 9.0+ and PBCC 5.0+

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Sub-BoardsTips and Tricks

Windows Common Controls and Dialogs
Articles, tutorials and examples on using the Windows Common Controls and Dialogs with PBWIN 9.0+

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COM Programming (General)
Articles, tutorials and examples on COM programming with PowerBASIC™

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Data Access and Storage
Articles, tutorials and examples on data access and storage programming with PBWIN 9.0+ and PBCC 5.0+

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Graphics and Multimedia
Articles, tutorials and examples on graphics and multimedia programming with PowerBASIC™

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Scripting
Articles, tutorials and examples on using scripting technologies with PBWIN 9.0+ and PBCC 5.0+

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Web Development
Articles, tutorials and examples on using Internet related technologies with PBWIN 9.0+ and PBCC 5.0+

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Archived Posts

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Scriptbasic
Scriptbasic is a interpreter that can be used by compilers to embed Scripting operations easily.

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