Freebasic [1] is a modern cross-platform BASIC compiler and it's really rather good with lots of ported libraries. I often use it when I need to knock up a litt

Freebasic [1] is a modern cross-platform BASIC compiler and it's really rather good with lots of ported libraries. I often use it when I need to knock up a little graphics demo or something really quickly. I'm starting to use Python more for that sort of thing now, but you can't beat BASIC's lack of overhead, especially for graphics. [1] http://www.freebasic.net/ http://www.freebasic.net/