ZBasic

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ZBasic was first released by Zedcor (Tuscon, AZ) in mid 1985. The combined efforts of Andrew Gariepy, Scott Terry, David Overton, Greg Branche, and Halbert Laing lead to versions for MS-DOS, Apple, Macintosh CP/M and TRS-80 computers. It was a very fast, efficient and advanced BASIC compiler. It included support for BCD math to 54 digits and graphical support up to EGA for MS-DOS. In the 1991, Harry Gish and 32 Bit Software Inc. (Dallas, TX) purchased the MS-DOS version. Nando Favaro expanded it to include 16 and 32 bit specific machine code as well as VGA and VESA video. Zedcor concentrated on the Apple Mac market and rename it Future Basic.