NS BASIC Corporation announces new Development Tool!

Now it's easy to develop apps for the Windows desktop!

January 18, 2005 -- NS Basic Corporation today announced the immediate availability of NS Basic/Desktop 1.0, a new development tool for creating Windows XP and Windows 2000 applications.

"We've been making easy to use development tools for Palm OS and Windows CE for many years." said George Henne, President of NS BASIC Corporation. "It seemed a lot of what we have been doing is equally relevant on the desktop. Tools need to be friendly and easy to learn, easy to deploy and well supported."

NS Basic/Desktop 1.0 is complete standalone development solution, featuring:

• Easy to use, standard and structured BASIC
• Over a dozen built in screen objects
• Creates buttons, fields, popups and more
• Serial and internet communications using 3rd party controls
• Math and trigonometric function support
• Produces stand alone, installer free executables
• Uses standard third party ActiveX controls
• Easily hooks into databases such as Oracle and ADO
• Interfaces with COM aware apps such as Word, Excel and Outlook
• Royalty free distribution of applications you create
• Supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
• Lots of sample code
• IDE in English, German and Japanese
• 130 page hard copy Handbook

"I was very surprised that I could make an application in less than 15 minutes that created MS Outlook tasks, appointments, emails, notes and journal entries on the fly. NS Basic/Desktop is much easier to get started using than most other major PC programming languages and with the ability to add ActiveX controls can be made very powerful." said Keith McKibbin Sr. Program Manager, PalmOne, Inc, one of the beta testers.

Pricing and Availability

Applications developed with NS Basic/Desktop are distributed royalty free. NS Basic/Desktop 1.0 normally costs $149.95 for a single user: there is an introductory special of $99.95. Enterprise licenses are also available. The toolkit runs on Windows 2000 or XP. The product is available immediately from the company's website.

About NS BASIC Corporation
NS BASIC Corporation has been a leading creator of development tools for handheld devices since 1993. Its development tools for Windows CE, Palm OS and Newton are among the leading tools in each of their marketplaces. More than 15,000 developers in over 60 countries use NS BASIC's tools.

Here are some useful pointers for more information:
Tour: http://www.nsbasic.com/desktop/info/technotes/Tut1.htm
FAQ: http://www.nsbasic.com/desktop/info/faq.html
Specifications: http://www.nsbasic.com/desktop/info/Specifications.html
For more information, please contact us at info@nsbasic.com.

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