Getting Started: About PureBasic

PureBasic started life as a "next generation" version of an old BASIC on the Amiga computer. Combining speed, small program sizes, ease of use, power and flexibility were, and still are, some of the main goals of PureBasic. Since then it has also added cross-platform compatibility with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions available (and the possibility for others). You can compile the same code on all versions of PureBasic and you will have an application which will run in the same way on all platforms!

Apart from the feature list which is described in the main part of the manual, PureBasic is made up from four important parts: