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These are unsolicited
comments from people who have used NS Basic/Palm. The
most recent comments are at the end of the file.
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"NS Basic is excellent. It means that I can now get
all my own Visual Basic utilities working on my Palm.
I will be recommending it. Thanks." -- Ian Hutchings,
England
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"I really am pleased with the product!" -- Peter Savas
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"Great Product - better than the CE one (which I also
have!) and that was fantastic." -- Tim Kiel, England
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"I am very impressed." -- Dr.H.P. Heimes, Germany
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"Very cool product" -- Stewart Alpert
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"I just received NS Basic/Palm this weekend, and also
own NSBasic/CE. I liked the CE version, but found it
hard to develop on the CE machine itself. I think the
Palm approach is fantastic. I was able to install it,
Install POSE, and whip up a quick prototype in a relaxing
Sunday Afternoon. Anyway, thanks for a great product,
and I can't wait to talk my contract into a development
project." -- Raul Escobar
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"I just received NS Basic/Palm and ran the first tutorial,
installed the program and runtimes on my Palm. It worked
perfectly. I am awed. " -- Fred Thorlin
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"Thanks for the prompt response George, I feel that
the development community is in good hands with your
team. Iv'e installed NS Basic and noticed a few things...
- New/first application was created within an hour
of getting NSBasic - it was very easy to re-utilize
knowledge of basic/vb
- I like the default application icons
- Bitmaps work very well too
- The database handling works very well - I'll be
setting up a serial app soon.
- I like the way the fonts work - I use the various
symbols a lot
Looking forward to updates. Keep up the excellent work
- you & your team are doing a great job! " -- Jeff Debrosse
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"Thanks for producing this product. I would have no
problem recommending it to anyone interested in developing
for the PalmOS. " -- Michael Frangiskakis
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"So far I am very happy with the ease of use of the
IDE. I have been able to create functioning (although
not very functional!) programs in a few dayswithout
a lot of effort, and it has been several years since
I did any programming. " -- Joe Shuman
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"Thanks. The product itself is great and I believe
the only quality combined with ease of use for the Palm
out there right now. " -- Stanislav Fritz
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"NSBasic is great." -- Scott Cismoski
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"Like the program, very easy to use." -- Kevin McGowan
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"Keep up the great work!" -- Eric Cornwell
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"Great Product!!!" -- John R Franklin PhD
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Thanks and congratulations" -- Luca Raffaelli
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"Thank you for the upgrade. NS Basic/Palm is getting
better every week. Congratulations for your excellent
work." -- Lino E. Costa, Argentina
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"I got my package this weekend and I love the book!
Spiral bound is SO much better than the others - you
guys do pay attention to details. Thanks!!" -- Michael
Wegner
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"I just wanted to thank you for producing such a great
and wonderful program such as NSBasic. We at Empowering
Technologies are looking forward to the next contest
as well as the next release of NSBasic. Keep up the
great work!!!!" -- Thomas Chabra
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"First let me say how pleased we are with NS Basic/Palm.
While we've only used it for a couple of weeks, it's
great. Performance is acceptable and while we've gotten
a number of system errors, they're not always reproducible
or incapable of workarounds. Thank you again for a terrific
product. " -- Robert Delikat
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"And by the way, after working on it for 1 day, I can
say - Great product. " -- Srinivas R. Loka
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"I love your NSBasic compiler. I use Visual Basic 6
on a regular basis, so NSBasic was a snap for me to
pickup. " -- Jack Sorenson
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"Thank you very much for NS Basic/Palm. This product
is great, and I find that all of you have made an excellent
job with this. Good luck in the future!" -- Patrik Engberg,
Sweden
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"Now I'm a bit more used to it, NSBasic's a nice little
system. It's made me a convert to the idea of Palm computing!"
-- Keith McCormack, England
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"Am using NSBasic/Palm and loving it. Great job!" --
Mark Ebell MD, MS
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"Thank you for all of your hard work and ingenuity.
I think that you have written a very powerful and versatile
IDE, and I look forward to future developement." --
Lonnie Kendall
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"Thanks for a wonderful product and I look forward
to future revisions!" -- Hood Gardner
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"...no problem in the field. The guys love it, and
NSBasic is a great product in my book. You can quote
me on that." -- Douglas J. Kruse
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"this program is just what I was looking for!!!" --
Patrick J. Manganiello
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"By the way... GREAT PRODUCT!!!!!" -- Ron Madow
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"Again - thanks for writing NSBasic - it's the easiest
way I've seen to handle a palm." --Stan Armington, Nepal
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"Thank you very much. This is a great product." --
Tim Jackson
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"Thank you again for sending a great product." -- Tsuyoshi
Fukuda, Japan
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"I received the NSBasic/Palm today. Just wanted to
say that I'm really impressed with it. Its really a
lot more than I expected so I'll be getting the NSBasic
for windows CE next." -- Hector Marroquin
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"Finally, after what has at times seemed like years,
but in reality has only been a few short months, as
I am writing this post, in the room next to me all of
the staff is busy stuffing envelopes with Notices of
Tariff violations for payphones located throughout the
state of California, created by inspections done on
the Visors by our inspectors, using PalmInspect. NO
MORE PAPER INSPECTIONS!!!!
"All in all, it has been a wonderful, terrible, exciting,
depressing, fantastic, awful experience. The good parts
of it was mainly due to NSBasic and the great support
from George et al. A number of members of this eGroup
also have shared in this. The bad parts were by far
mainly due to having to integrate the new application
with an existing legacy desktop system (but then who
hasn't had to do that?), and all of the changes that
needed to be made to the legacy system just to get IT
to work right.
Overall, we are very pleased with NSBasic/Palm, and
look forward to all the yet to come enhancements, features,
etc. that we will be able to add to this application,
as well as future applications which we will be developing.
BTW - yes, we ARE making a living from this. I just
got a $13K raise, thank you very much!" -- Douglas J.
Kruse, PSP Enforcement a public program of the California
Public Utilities Commission
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"Thanks again for the update, I am really enjoying
the software, it is very useful." -- Joe Landa BriarTek
Inc.
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"all in all, an AMAZING product!" -- Frank Blau
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"I am very satisfied of the 1.07 version and fat app."
-- Michael de Montlaur, France
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"Hey guys... first and foremost... your product rocks...
like no other RAD tool out there! -- Frank Blau
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"I agree with whomever said that they'd be willing
to pay more for the next big version of NS/BASIC Palm
if you'd make improvements to the IDE ... what you've
done so far is really amazing at the price and you've
got the technical code dimensions working well. " --
Michael Strupp
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"By the way. I am enjoying the program. Keep up the
good work :)" -- Eric Harms
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"freakin' amazing. that's all I have to say." -- Frank
Blau
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"I love your product. I do nice things with it." --
Sylvain Roy Hydro-QuZõbec
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"Brilliant product." -- Roderick Starksfield
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"I'm really enjoying NSBasic. Best $100 I ever spent."
-- Bill Coron
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"If you want to program in Basic, then NSBasic is the
best game in town. The familiar syntax and basic-event
model lends itself to fast development by experienced
VB Programmers.
On the plus side:
- - Good database (you can write user-defined TYPES)
- - Good forms editor
- - All the control constructs
- - Fair scoping rules
- - Date/Time/Math support (MathLib.prc required
for advanced math)
- - Fast development
- - Runtime optionally to executable
- - Good support (here)
On the minus side:
- - It's NOT Visual Basic.
- - Rather large runtime (80+ K)
- - Rather slow running (seen worse though)
- - No support for more advanced Palm features like
API, Preferences
- & Alarms
- - No Table/Grid Control
- - No Clipboard or Find support
On the whole, the price cannot be beat. As you mentioned
Sat.Forms is expensive, and CodeWarrier is expensive/difficult
to learn.
I like it -- I look forward to enhancments :)" -- Rick
Sands
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"Thank you for NSBasic! It's terrific!" -- Roger Carroll
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"I own a copy of NS Basic Palm. And I Love it." --
Mike Petranech
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"This is a great product and really well thought out.
Congratulations to you on doing an excellent job." --
Randy Rogel
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"By the way, I really like working with NSBasic. I
really like the features that allow one to get access
to OS functionality and shared libraries." -- Richard
Bagdazian
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Wow.. what can I say!! I've never written a PalmOS
app in my life, and have been looking into how to go
about doing it. I recently picked up a number of thick
books on the subject and scoured the net when I happened
to stumble across your program.
I decided to download it and give it a try. I'm simply
amazed! Within an hour and a half I built my "dream
app" that I needed! Haven't cracked any of the other
big beefy books yet either.
I'm going to kick the tires a bit more on your product
before deciding if it will suit all my needs, but I
likes what I see so far!
Kudos indeed! -- Lance Taylor
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I love NSBasic. Now I have it for both Palm and PocketPC
-- Vince Chien
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NS-Basic is a very good product. I live in Mexico,
and here we don't earn green bucks; here all north american
products are EXPENSIVE, but even for me NS-Basic is
really cheap. -- Agust’n Far’as Gonz‡le, Mexico
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| This is a GREAT development tool. -- Mike |
| I would also like to complement you on
your product. It really is quite powerful and, as an experienced
Visual Basic programmer, I found it easy to use. It will
be very useful in developing Palm based companion apps
for some of my applications. -- Dan Ireland |
| Your NS Basic Programming environmet is
one of the easiest to create a Palm application within
hours. I love it!. -- Zan Gligorov |
| I'm really impressed with the NS Basic
package - pretty cool. -- Dave Barnett |
| I love the Product and the
Support! -- Tom Schenk |
| Been a while since we chatted! and the
new release contains some great upsides! Have just tried
only some simple things but I can now compile and run
FAT APPS!!!! ---- :-) ---- WOW - a real treat !!! I am
sure there is much more under the hood, so will spend
some time with it. Thanks Again ! -- Bob Magill |
| I'm having a blast with NSBasic, great
product! -- Richard Janushan |
| You should be proud of your team. This
is the first time that you will actually get timely updates
and bug fixes for the people who actually use the product.
Thanks for a GREAT product to begin with. I wish i knew
about it earlier! -- JAG |
| Great product, love it, keep up the great
work. -- John |
| Just wanted to say that you are the best
software company I have dealt with. -- Mike |
| I have just purchased a version of NSBasic,
and have found it to be a true RAD tool. -- Gene |
| Programming for the Palm has been a bit
of a challenge for me so far, but even without the benefit
of the reference manual (until tonight), I've gotten a
lot more done with NSBasic than I ever did using GCC.
Thanks for the fine product. I plan to spend a lot of
time with it! -- John P. Toscano |
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I'm an old system IBM 360/370 assembler programmer
(hadn't written any code in ten years before August
2000) and the only Basic I had any experience of was
the TRS-80 in the early 80's. I found NS Basic really
easy to pick up once I got the concept of forms containing
objects that you used methods on...
To make the next jump to writing a conduit, I recently
purchased a copy of VB and I found the grounding I had
in NS Basic made VB quite easy to pick up (at least
at the elementary level)... I wonder if any others have
found NSB a good way to start VB..?
Anyway, I agree with some of the other comments in
the group... start with something a little easier...
and 'watch this space'... you'll never get a better
group of people or better vendor support to help you...
But a warning... be prepared to lose your weekends and
evenings... it's surprisingly addictive...! -- Andrew
PS: The spiral bound manual opens flat on the desk....
This is pure genius! (Are you listening Bill..?)
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| It's so cool to compute with NSB !!! --
Stephane |
| It's been a very long time since I've done
any programming...but I've been having a great time with
the product so far. The new GUI for version 2.0 also seems
to be a big improvement. -- Bob |
| This is such a great product, and your
support is second to none!! -- Terry |
| I'm currently using the Palm version of
NSBasic and like it a lot! It is very well behaving environment
and the compiled programs are steady and not too big (not
even the fat versions). -- Jukka Hossi |
| I received my NS Basic manual today....definitely
a class act....I have an immediate warm and fuzzy feeling!
-- Jack Chomley, Australia |
| I'm astounded at the rate you folks implement
enhancements. If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were
in the Open Source arena -- Buddy |
| George H., if you're out there, you've
got a great product and better support for it. I am VERY
impressed. -- Al |
| BTW the best (wisest) $100.00
I've spent! -- Roger Mihara |
| Thanks for developing such a great language.
-- Jason L. Melancon |
| I'm deeply appreciative of both your product
and your almost unreal level of customer support. Your
product has proven the Palm to be a more flexible, more
absorbing platform than I'd ever thought it could be.
-- Garrison LeMasters |
| I have tried your demo version of NSBasic
Palm and almost fell out of my chair when I saw how easy
it was. -- Joe MacDonald |
| I want you to know what a great
product you have. -- Tim |
| Thanks - A great product. We have several
applications which will use NSbasic. Keep you updated
on how we make out. -- Ulric |
| I hope my reports have been helpful in
your work... Great new version, btw. People will love
this... I know I do.. -- David Orriss Jr. |
| So, you're up and working this
late at nite. You guys must love your work. It shows in
the product. -- BillC |
| I am really, really pleased with what I
have been able to achieve in such a short time with so
little programming knowledge; and I know my fellow managers
are going to be mighty impressed. Thanks to all in this
Group for all the help; and to George and NSBasic for
a great product. Now I am going to work on my "days to
retirement" calculator!! -- Hugh |
| This is an AWESOME product -- has definitely
rekindled a lost-love for programming. -- Jim Tate |
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Thanks George! You and your folks do a great job! Keep
it up!
You've got a kick-ass product. I have 'seen the light'.
C++ sucks - Basic RULES! -- bri
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| Congrats on a nice new product. I'm just
starting to use it but the IDE is very attractive and
familiar to us VB folks. -- Dennis |
| I enjoy writing programs in NS Basic. It
is a very good compiler. -- Sam Maniotes |
| By the way, the new IDE is supreme. --
Julio Debroy |
| I have started to use IDE v2 : WOW ! --
Thierry Arbelot |
| Thanks a lot for a really great product.
-- Agust’n Far’as Gonz‡lez |
| The software is FANTASTIC!!!!!! -- Jim |
| The new IDE is beautiful. Dramatic improvements,
yet an easy transition. I've been away from development
for awhile, but I was delighted to dive in 2.0 to start
a new app this week. -- Marlon |
| But this is really cool --
I really do like it. Finally, something as easy as Visual
Basic for programming Palm-based handhelds. :) :) :) --
Auri |
| Thank you for your amazing service. --
Jaume d'Urgell |
| You guys continue to be great (I've been
a user since NS Basic for Newton) -- Martino |
| Been working with NSBasic for Palm OS.
Great IDE!! I work with RealBasic for the Macintosh and
VB for Windows. Glad I bought it. -- Pat Camporeale |
| I all I love this prgram. -- Andrea |
| you make a good programing for fun !!!
I really enjoy it. -- Yuhan |
| Thank you very much for the prompt response.
So far I am VERY please with your product. Long long ago
I wrote a lot of code in QuickBasic for data acquisition
and NSBasic sort of takes me back to when coding was fun...
-- Paul |
| I have been only using it for a short time
but really love it. -- Ian Ross |
| We love your product. -- Dave |
| I just wanted to tell you how much I really
like version 2! Up to this point, I had not really developed
anything new with v2 - I had just recompiled old projects...
Version 2 is really cool! You guys did a great job! In
my, (not so humble) opinion, it is so much easier to use.
I LIKE IT! -- Ron |
| I never seen such fast response from Software
Company. Very good. Thank you, again! -- Patrick |
| I was only introduced to NS Basic/Palm
about 3 days ago. I used the trial version and was very
impressed. I ordered my copy yesterday, it arrived today.
This is just a note to say "thank you". Version 2.0.3
is fantastic. I am familiar with VB and got into the NS
Basic/Palm drivers seat very easily simply by playing
and reviewing the help file. The documentation I received
with the package is wonderful and answered a few questions
I had. I had to write and tell you just how much fun and
how fast I have been able to assemble a palm ready program.
Thanks once again. -- Jim Houser |
| You company has done a great job! -- Lester |
| I am using the latest Beta to build yet
another Palm application and I can't tell you what a great
job you are doing! This beta is very solid and has great
IDE features. I am very Pleased. -- Ken |
| Nsbasic is a very good product when we
understand the concept. It's very great -- Philippe |
| A vote of confidence in NSBasic :-) --
Al |
| I have developed an application for GPS
data collection using NSBasic and find your product truly
elegant. -- Mike |
| NSBasic seems like a fantastic Palm development
tool. -- Ray |
| Thanks so much for such a great product!!!!
-- Ted |
| Love your product. -- Kerry Podolsky |
| Thanks for the great product (and support)
George! -- Bob Anderson |
| now about two weeks into using Nsbasic
intensively, 6-8 hours a day... I think overall for the
money it's wonderful. -- Graham |
| Downloaded the demo version Friday morning
and was creating apps less than an hour later. The Tutorials
were great. -- Mark |
| Thanks again for making NSBasic for Palm
a great product, -- Tom Turner |
| Super product. Far superior to Visual Basic.
-- Jeff |
| ns basic is really a great product and
I def. will recommend it to others... It took me less
than 4 days to convert a visual basic application to ns
basic.. -- Marcus |
| Not that it's worth a bunch, but anybody
who asks me about developing for the Palm I say use NSBasic.
-- Mike |
| We were very impressed at one the response
time to which you responded, and were very impressed at
the tool itself. I can see a few enhancements needed (such
as the code completion) but overall it is a very N&S yet
powerful tool. -- Brady Wood |
| I bought a version 1.0 around 1 year ago,
now, i upgrade to 2.0 and the impression is very good.
Congratulations for your very good software ! -- Marcelo
Botelho |
| It is a very fine product. -- Chris |
| NSBasic/Palm 2.1 is rock solid, btw. At
least what I've been doing with it has been. You and the
guys never cease to amaze me. Totally worth my initial
$99 investment.. :-) -- David |
| 'Loving NSB the more I dig into it... --
Robert |
| This is a GREAT product, I just can't get
enough of it. -- Jim Tate Jr. |
| I have told every programmer that I know
just how great your program is -- as well as the unbeatable
customer service. -- Jim Tate Jr |
| Thanks for the great product. (I'm sure
your getting tired of hearing that!!) -- Joe Nash |
| I am well into my first application
using NS Basic and it seems to be a fine development environment.
Congrats on a good product. -- Larry |
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5 letters:
G R E A T !!!!
And then a deep bow -- renedohmen
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| A testament to NSB. I bought NSB last month,
released my first project to palmgear.com and already
450 downloads. I'm a pro programmer (with no prior visual
basic experience), but I think it's pretty great how quick
and easy NSB was to pick up and get going. -- Mark |
| I neglected to mention that I have also
already more than recouped my NSB registration fee of
$150 (my project is shareware). -- Mark |
| Yesterday I have received my NSBASIC package,
always my programming language was FORTRAN, but your NSBASIC
is excelent. -- Eduardo Vazquez |
| I didn't have the chance to
thank you for a great application (NSBasic). I know I
will enjoy it more and more when I get more familiar with
it. I would say it is one of the best. -- Constantin Kouchary |
| I just love NSBasic for my Palm. I have
done so much with it. -- Blair Heinzlmeir |
| NSB 2.0xx is Quite Impressive as well.
The development environment is much better than the previous
one (1.0x) and is even more intuitive! Hard to believe
that they could improve on it but im glad i upgraded.
If you want graphical speed look at the ScreenLIB functions
your can do some very impressive stuff with it. For the
price and ease of use its definitely worth the investment.
And no im not a sales rep :) Just a happy customer! --
JAG. |
| You guys are the best! -- Tom Schenk |
| It's a pretty clean app! -- Joel |
| All in all, your compilers are indeed Neat
and Simple. -- Eddie |
| I am delighted with your product!! -- Sean
D |
| I'm a new very happy user of NSBasic for
Palm. Congratulation for your job! It's simply... great!
-- Lucio LIBERI |
| I am a fan of NS Basic. It is
a great product. -- Mike Berry |
| Great product. Happy to pay
the registration fee. -- Henry Baumeister |
| I have really enjoyed this package. --
Terri Popson |
| I am really happy with the NSBasic evolution
!!. -- Paco |
| We like your product as it is simple to
use. -- Philippe Cadic |
| NSBasic is a great program and an excellent
value for the money. -- David Cohen |
| You have a great team. I've really enjoyed
NSB. -- Wayne |
| One of the things that attracted me to
nsBasic was the "ring of integrity" I detected in your
description, FAQs, etc. Of course, the specs, price and
obvious dedication played a part as well not to mention
a fearful hatred of Microsoft. I fully expect to be using
it to "port" my game to the new generation of *handy devices
being supported by Palm and M$. -- Brooke |
| I would like to tell you that NSBasic is
really GREAT! -- Norberto |
| This has got to be the coolest product
around! I'm a C/C++ programmer with some VB experience
so it was real easy to start coding right away. While
talking about C... I'll need to write some procedures
and call them from NSB. -- Bill |
| I have really enjoyed NSbasic. I am never
hesitant to order the upgrade, it's always packed with
new features. -- Chris |
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Don't buy 3.x for the speed improvement. Any speed
improvement you get will just be icing on the cake.
Buy it for the language improvements.
I can't speak for George, but I first bought NSB/Palm
at 1.x in late Dec 2000. Between then and July 2001,
when 2.x became available, NSB significantly improved
the language (and the speed!). Between July 2001 when
2.0 was introduced and Oct 2002 when 3.0 was introduced,
NSB again added lots of features to the language, and
each interim release was again free to registered 2.x
users.
Take a look at the list of language enhancements for
3.0, and see if you can justify the $35 fee for a download
only upgrade. While NSB is under no obligation to do
so, history has shown they are likely to incorporate
more new features prior to the next chargable upgrade.
If you purchase the upgrade because of features you
are less likely to be disappointed. As I explained in
another post, the performance gain from 3.x will vary
depending on the project. You may see little or no gain.
You may see a significant gain. YMMV.
Version 3.0 also brings NSB fully into compliance with
OS5 restrictions, allowing you to run (or market) on
these devices as well. I don't know if any of the competing
Basic-like environments can make that claim yet! --
Doug
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| I've upgraded to V3 via download. Excellent,
much faster running programs. -- David |
| Im not trying to butter you up, but I congratulate
you, it's a damn good product. -- D.G.Llewelyn |
| I'm looking forward to checking out the
new features. The speed increase is dramatic! Thanks for
making a great product even better. -- Tom Turner |
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All the additions and improvements look great! You
really do listen to what we want and don't want...the
"screen memory" of v.2 can essentially be set to on
or off, there is a "clear all variable" function and
you have added memory card support!!!
NSB, you are doing good. ........Steve
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| I love NSBasic and am really enjoying the
fruits of my labors with this great programming tool.
-- Lonnie Davis |
| This version of NSB is solid. I've worked
with it for two days straight (more than 12 hours of programming)
and haven't blown anything up. Other than a wierd font
error I reported earlier, this version is ROCKIN'! --
Jon |
| All in all I must say I'm very happy I
bought NSBasic. I have been writing programs for two years
now and have sold almost 1000 programs already. At an
average of $10 a piece, this has reduced the cost I have
paid for NSBasic to a minimum. And not to mention the
excellent help and advise I have received right here on
this very mailing list. -- Werner Terreblanche |
| You guys are still going a great job! (That's
why I keep coming back :) ) -- Chris |
| By the way I love your product. I've been
using it since 1.0 for palm. Great work. -- Mike Felkins |
| NS Basic is amazing! I have been programming in VB ever since it
was Beta so your IDE looks very familiar to me.
I have been playing with NS Basic for about an hour now and words can not
express my amazement with your program. Good job!
--
Jim Dolson, Grand Rapids, MI
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| Great improvement with speed with this new version, one of my programs
is now twice as fast.
-- David G L Anderson, England
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| A fine piece of software. Easy to program, simple to understand, fast
execution on my Tungsten T, i am relay satisfied!
-- Christian
Sandmann |
| I tend to mistrust marketing fluff, but NSBasic really is fast and
easy,
just like it says in some of the testimonials you posted. -- Lojko, Ed |
| Would appreciate having my permanent serial number quicker. Up here in
Alaska, the mail has its vagaries. Did a internet search and got the demo
version on Friday. Purchased NSBasic last night when it became very
apparent
that it would do the job. Already have my first little utility program
essentially finished. I made a super easy to use pregnancy
gestation/EDC/conception/LMP calculator which I want to use immediately in
the office.
I am an Obstetrician-Gynecologist. I program at the intermediate level
with
VB 6, and have been programming since the 70's in basic starting on a
Commodore PET. I have owned every version of VB, Quickbasic, and the older
line oriented MS basics. Purchased a my first PDA, a Sony Clie just to use
the ePocrates program (essentially a physicians reference to all aspects
of
all drugs) only a week ago. But programming being a major hobby, I
couldn't
help but see all the things I wanted to do for which I couldn't find good
commercial solutions. My next project will involve a database application.
It looks like NSBasic will fill that need. Thanks for the fine product! -- Jim |
| I am so glad that I am working with NSBasic, the forum and software
is top notch and I am creating an application that would have been
totally impossible otherwise since I have no intention of getting into
C. -- Mike White |
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I am very satisfied with your product.
Why NSBasic is cool
1. This is SO much easier then Code Warrior
2. IDE is tight
3. Fully featured command set
-- bill nadvornik
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| Thanks for the great product! I think I'm on my way to
creating a project in about 2 weeks that would have taken me about 3
months
in any other platform (except VB, which wouldn't have helped much with my
Palm). |
| I'm almost finished my first commercial application using NS Basic/Palm
and I'm happy to let you know that you have a great product. Thanks very
much. -- Bosco Cheung |
| In January I tried the demo of NS Basic. I was very plesaed by the
program, and even after having tried MobileVB and CASL as well, I still
do think that you did the best job. Besides, George gave me excellent
service, my compliments!! I also said I would like to buy the product,
and that I'd try to convince people at my university for this. However,
although everyone is talking with lots of enthusiasm, things are going
too slow in my opinion, so finally I decided to buy it myself, I don't
want to wait for them anymore. It's just too good to let it go... |
| I have used NSBasic on a variety of devices ever
since its introduction... well all devices actually
from the Newton, to Palm and CE and think it is an
incredibly valuable development product.
-- Shawn G. Doughty |
| I find NS Basic very enjoyable to use. I have a Zire and
have had no problems with either. Great tool NS Basic. - W.F. Sawyer,
Australia |
| thanks for responding.. I am really enjoying working
with NS Basic.. I am wondering when I am going to come
across something I can't get this thing to do.
So far it is very bug free.
My background is perl sql programmer and with Director
(where I am used to sharing graphics between cast
members on the stage) I studied Basic and Fortran ages
ago in college.. -- Ward Ryan |
| -The NSB IDE is terrific, many thanks to NSB. I got my first
prototype up in a week (I have an idea for a program with lots of
applications that I hope to get out there sometime soon).
-- Jim |
| Thought you might be interested in this ... in an interview that I had
yesterday with Palm (the hardware side of the fence), I was asked by five
different people what I used to program Palm devices. When I answered
NSBasic all five said "I knew you where going to say that".
I guess they have been hearing that a lot lately.
Congrats,
-- Keith |
| When I bought the license of NS-BASIC version 2.1.1.C, it didn't imagine
such an efficient and fast development tool with database.
-- J?lio C?sar De Luca, Brazil |
| "If I do say so myself, your product is a great one. It's distributed right.
It's licensed right. It has the right features. Fit and finish is quite
good. That's saying something ... being the former product manager of
Satellite Forms... (Pumatech)"
-- Ray Combs
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| By the way, awhile ago I set a small business up to sell some of my NSBasic
applications on PalmGear and Handango. Yesterday she got a note from a
reseller asking for 370 copies of one application...I couldn't believe it.
It just goes to show that you guys have a great product that can produce
some very nice applications...even by guys like me.
Thanks for all your help!
-- Bob Anderson
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| Just a note to pass on my appreciation of NSBASIC for Palm.
Once I got used to it, I must admit that it is stable, fast and a nice
development environment.
Where the IDE differs from VB (and of course it must anyway) I think that
the features that it offers actually make it better to use.
I have been writing code for Symbol Devices and they have been tidy,
Professional looking and solid as they can be...
Thanks again for an excellent product.
Gary Barnes, Australia
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I've been using NSBasic/Palm to develop Palm software for about 6 months
now and it's the best product on the market with great support on the web
group.
-- Bosco Cheung, hong Kong
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I will be able to show a working prototype on Thursday, running on a
Tungsten T and written in NSB (3 days time).
While I have asked a ton of questions on the forums and of you personally, I
have been very favorably impressed by the support. Thanks a lot.
I also like a lot of things about the product. The IDE and compiler, while
usable, could be improved, but the executables are lean and mean, and appear
to offer reasonably complete access to the Palm environment. I have yet to
find anything that I need to do that I cannot do, assuming it can be done at
all in a reasonable way. Productivity is excellent.
I had been looking for an alternative to CodeWarrior C.
While I know C very well, I also know what writing low-level C in one of
these GUI systems is like: very painful and slow as you fight your way
through event handlers and memory issues as well as inconsistent and silly
API's. I was beginning to think that was our only approach, and now look at
where I am at.
I do not know of a better solution and I have looked tirelesly. I will tell
Palm this.
I don't think that I need anything for the meeting. If something occurs to
you that you would like for me to share with them, please let me know.
-- Bob Smith, Covad
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| I've become an NSBasic user recently, and have to
get used to the systrap and NSBSystemLib stuff. But I can only
recommend to anyone: GO AND USE IT.
-- Robert Hoek, Netherlands |
| Btw, congratulations are in order! You and your team have grown NS Basic to
something quite impressive! I'm glad to have been there from the early days
so that I can look back and see all of the progress! It's always good to
see a company gain tenure in it's field of expertise. I see that Microsoft
has even given NS Basic considerable mention! Kudos!
-- Jeff Debrosse,Paradigm Consulting Group |
| "I downloaded the trial version, and have enjoyed writing some simple
applications in the electronics field. I look forward to keeping and
modifying these, and writing many more. Being familiar with Visual Basic,
using NS Basic is a doddle (as we say this side of the pond)." -- J G
Francis, England |
| I own NSBasic/Palm and have developed several applications with it, all
of which communicate with peripheral instruments via serial port and generate
graphic images of geometric measurements. I like your development system!
--
James K. Hesch, CPE
President, Ziatek, Inc. |
| By the way, I like the NS Basic/Palm s/w very much. Easy to use,
intuitive, and has many sample projects. There's a lot of hidden
horsepower in your
product as I try other features. Great Job!
--
Todd L. Smith |
| "I really like the documentation, good examples, easy to
understand. Thank you for such a nice product. NS Basic has to be one
of the best value products I have seen in a LONG time!"
Joe Lauben, Department of Defense, South Korea |
| Keep doing the great job you are doing. I'm not a
programmer but with your program I have been able to make a good program for
my fellow co-workers and myself to help us keep track of our service calls
and parts usage. Like I said before keep up the good work -- Juan Reyes |
| Keep up the good work. Your product and support are excellent. Since
we've added an application written with NSBasic to our product line,
we've had greater success getting access to larger clients. Having
Palm support in our product suite sets us apart from our competition
and identifies us as a leading edge software maker in the market we
serve.
--Ken Faber
(we specialize in serving Commercial Pilots and F/As) |
| Awesome product!! The more apps I build, the more I love it!
Thanks much!
-- Jim Tate |
| Thank you for making the great product. I know almost nothing about
programming Palm Pilot but was able to re-create my Visual Basic program to
Palm Pilot in less than a week. It was my dream and now it become true.
-- Yoshikazu Hirai |
| All worked out great & just finished developing my app. which is also
looking great. It's my 5th significant (worth saving & showing) project
since getting NSBasic in 2001.
-- Stephen G. Giannoni |
| Keep up the good work - this is a great product!
-- Andy Vizulis |
| Wow! What fun! I bought my first handheld, a Palm Tungsten E, a couple of
weeks ago, quickly learned about NS Basic, bought it, and started
programming within hours of installing the IDE. Thanks to several years
of programming in Visual Basic, plus the excellent sample projects that
were included, the learning curve is almost flat
-- Onik Arian |
| You're awsome...
-- Sang Nguyen |
| NS Basic is a dream come true for Palm development. Thank
you.
-- Pat Luft |
| BTW - I came across NSB within a week of purchasing my first ever handheld,
and love the platform. After years of programming in Visual Basic, I found
NSB to have a remarkably gentle learning curve.
-- Onik Arian
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Hallo und Guten Tag,
ich habe bei Ihnen das Upgrade NSBasic 4.1.4 erhalten und bin begeistert:
von dem schnellen Lieferservice, von der sehr guten Dokumentation und
insgesamt von Ihrer Firma.
Seit es NSBasic gibt, bin ich Kunde bei Ihnen und 100%ig zufrieden.
Selten habe ich so gute Erfahrungen mit einer Softwarentwicklung gemacht,
ein DICKES LOB.
Sollten Sie bei Ihrer Werbung Referenzen hier in Deutschland suchen, bin
ich gerne bereit interessierten Kunden vor Ort weiterzuhelfen bzw. Ihr
Produkt NSBasic zu empfehlen. Oft ist es nštig, da§ man jemanden um Rat
fragen mu§, der sprachlich aus dem gleichen Raum (deutsch) kommt.
-- Alles Gute und viel Erfolg fźr Ihre Firma K.M. Wagner |
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Thanks for the insight and the pointer to how to get it done. As usual, you
provide terrific customer support.
By the way, kudos on a wonderful product. You have come a long way from when
I first got involved in NSBasic/CE. The Palm version really takes advantage
of a hefty toolbox available in the Palm OS 5.0. The speed of execution,
too, is amazing. This is going to be a lot of fun!
-- Larry G. Johnson, Esq.
Legal Technology Group, Inc.
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| "I am impressed. I just purchased Falch.net product and I am having major
problems. I downloaded your demo and created two applications within a
matter of minutes and without crashing...' -- Stephen Nelson |
| I think your software is great! I've able to program some aviation
calculations for my M515 palm very quickly, and now I have more complex
programs in mind. -- Alan Okazaki |
| bravo for your amazing product.
-- StŽphane Pinel, France |
| "... just finished our application for the Palm using your NSBasic
4.2. Came out great, NSBasic is all you said. " -- Fred DeRouin |
| It's an excellent product! Please keep up the great work!
-- Dieter Warnholz
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| I was so impressed with NSBasic after 2 days, I purchased it. have already 2
applications with NSBasic.
Thanks,
Germain Cassiere
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| Btw, I am really happy with how the help system is presented and
organized. Not that I can't offer any new suggestions make it even
better, but I thought it might encourage you a bit to know that I think
its one of the best help systems I have used. Lookup on NSBasic
functions etc is very fast and clear. I wish companies like Microsoft
would take lessons from it.
Thank you for making it easy.
-- Gary Winslow, Jr A+,N+,L+,I+
Director of Systems
American Tax Funding, LLC. |
| Thanks again for an AWESOME development tool.
Regards--
Tim Markoski |
| Once again, thanks for such a great product. I highly recommend it!
-- Robert Spykerman, Australia |
| NSB its a great product.
-- Todd Lomelino |
| Your tools are really invaluable, the cost is always really low for what you
offer.
-- Fabrizio Cesare, Italy |
| Spend the bucks - you won't regret it. Great product - worth every dime.
-- Ian |
| NS Basic has been a delight to work with, solid and simple.
-- Ed Scharff
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| "... the only reason I keep a PC around is
because of your software pretty much :) " -- Drew Wohl |
| Awesome! You rock! Thanks!
-- Auri Rahimzadeh |
| This is a very nice piece of software.
-- Joe Martyniuk |
| and by the way . . . it is important for me to tell you that I am very
satisfied with the NS Basic I have, realy it's a pleasure to develope with
it. --
Guillermo Drexler, Argentina |
| Thanks again to you and NSbasic, a great tool for wireless application
developers. -- Kevin Sheng |
| First off my compliments to the NSBASIC code development team.
Finally a programming language and version of BASIC that is logical,
somewhat intuitive, without being too BASIC. I have generated a
fairly sophisticated code using your tool and the code development
went very smoothly. -- Timothy J. Sullivan |
| Woo-hoo!
(translation: "Thank you very much for the upgrade. It is a very
generous offer and I deeply appreciate it and the continuous work you
guys seem to put into improvement of the NSB products and support for
same. Thanks, again, Karl Roebling.) |
| I love the debugger. It is EASILY worth the
upgrade price. Throw in code hints + code completion, and this is one huge
update. I am very happy with 5.0 - Thanks for the great work!
-Jerry Lavish
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| Awesome product. Very easy to use. -- Peter Stokes, Harris Corporation |
| Fantastic! And BTW, I have to say that I am very impressed with this
package - from a programmer of 22 years :) -- James McDaniel |
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-I am absolutely BLOWN AWAY by NSBasic for the Palm!
Since I received the copy you sent, I have spent WAY too much time
playing with it. I will make a small presentation this Thursday at our
users group meeting, but I will be making a full presentation next
month. I might also do a seminar on how to use NSBasic.
I will send you the applications I have put together as soon as they are
done (a few bugs to be worked out) but the richness and completeness of
the NSBasic product is overwhelming me!
Thanks!
-- Jim Newton
Silicon Valley Palm Users Group (SVPUG)
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| "it is a great product and I enjoyed writing this program with it. Ich
weiss, Du kannst auch Deutsch, deshalb danke fur das tolle Programm! Ich
als Hobbyprogrammierer fand es ziemlich einfach, damit zu
programmieren." -- Stefan Braunstein |
| The greatness of Basic is it's range. A newbie can write his first program
in a few minutes and, by the end of the day, feel quite competent. And
experienced Basic programmers, after many years, may still find themselves
learning things, occasionally. Also, with NSB products, one has this
community to call on for help (and to commiserate! ;=)
-- Karl Roebling |
| I love the environment. Thanks for a great tool. -- David Springs
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| I am very satisfied with your product. It is the most comprehensive I have seen for the price. -- Joseph S. Moore |
| Great (and affordable) tools are hard to find. NSBasic is one of those tools that keeps on giving. -- Jeff Bachiochi, Circuit Cellar Magazine |
| NSBasic really is a great product and is saving me an untold
amount of time in developing my project in a timely fashion : )
-- Brian Murphy |
| I really would like to congratulate NS Basic .. the product is a fast, reliable and quite easy to use developer plataform. -- Marcelo Guimaraes, Brazil
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| I'm very happy with the software--I've never developed an application this easy or quickly before. -- Billy Johnson
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Wanted to write and let you know I am very pleased with the two packages
purchased from your firm:
- A. NSBasic / Palm
- B. NSBasic / Desktop
Within two days, a few applications have been developed/ported and are
undergoing testing on a Vista desktop and a Palm Treo Centro device. I am
very pleased with the software packages, their documentation, the sets of
tech notes on your company's website and the YAHOO Forums nsbasic-palm and
nsbasic-desktop. -- Richard C. (Rick) Murphy
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| Many thanks for your fast reply and direction..
I got color working aok, it's amazingly easy with your compiler..
Everything I needed to know to get a sample going was on the link you sent
of your website 'drill down' links and menus..
THIS EDITER/COMPLIER and THE PALM EMULATOR is just flat out AMAZING!!!!
You guys are GOOD!!!!!!
Since I'm getting hooked here, will have to buy the program by time the demo
frame runs out in 30 days. However, I hope the 7 version you mentioned is
ready and it'll coincide with 'time to buy' !!!
Also, the yahoo group is excellent.. if you need a beta tester , i'm not
exactly and expert but i'm no dummy and have made, installed and supported
many hardware automation systems to run TV commercials and also another line
to do A.T.E. systems using a program development kit called "Testpoint"..
built the hardware and all software.. very neat stuff..
Anyway, I am new to the Palm stuff and really excited on possiblitly of
testbox control and data logging for ATE applications ... may NOT work, but
need to go down the rabbit trail and find out what limitations I may run up
against...
A Palm unit is much smaller and easier to integrate than a full size desktop
PC running just ONE little'ole program to automate a testing process. .. No
windows, No computer, No monitor, No keyboard, etc you know the idea....
-- Dave
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NS Basic is the greatest! -- Robert Carson
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