Geobasic is here! 

News release from RUN mag on Q-link

RUN Magazine is pleased to announce an agreement with Berkeley Softworks to market the long-awaited geoBasic program to GEOS users.  Developed by the GEOS pros at Berkeley Softworks, geoBasic lets GEOS users program their own applications in Basic and take advantage of the ease of use of GEOS.  RUN, which obtained the North American distribution rights, plans to begin shipping this product in mid-June of this year.

GeoBasic supports all of the features--pull-down menus, information boxes, icons and mouse pointer for easy point-and-click operations--that make GEOS so easy to use.  Also, with geoBasic users can create program that use icons, menus, sprites and dialog boxes.

GeoBasic is a 40-column program that runs in C-64 mode on the 64 or 128 (preliminary testing of the product, however, indicates that it will also work in 128 40-column mode).  GeoBasic includes a text editor for entering and editing programs, menu editor, bitmap editor, icon editor and dialog box editor.  It includes up to 104 new commands.  It supports color and sound, text windows, drawing commands and mouse support, as well as structured loops, subroutines, mathematical functions and access to machine language.

The disk, which comes with a complete operations manual, will sell for $39.95. See the ad in the May issue of RUN for ordering information.  It is important to note that any questions regarding geoBasic should be directed to RUN, not Berkeley Softworks.