HotPaw Basic feature list:

• over 75 functions and 30 commands built-in;
• allows you to write BASIC programs in your MemoPad;
• simple built-in dialogs for displaying results and prompting for input parameters;
• custom form creation with user definable buttons, fields, checkboxes and pop-up lists;
• access to some standard database formats (including HanDBase 3, JFile and List) instead of a proprietary format;
• supports running Basic programs contained in pedit32 Memos or "Doc" files,
• sound and graphics commands, auto-scaling 2d and 3d plots, COLOR graphics; sound commands include tone and Morse code generation;
• support for the complete ANSI/ISO Minimal Basic programming language standard, most GWBasic(tm) functions and statements, plus block structured programming constructs (no line numbers required!);
• uses double precision floating point arithmetic and the MathLib transcendental function library;
• programmable ToDo, Datebook appointment and alarm creation;
• serial port, infrared(SIR), Bluetooth, and internet network socket communication support;
• compatible with the newest Palm OS 5.2 devices;
• includes several example programs;
• and more...

HotPaw Basic requires Palm OS 3.1 or higher and the MathLib library.

Download HotPaw Basic version 1.4.5   - (zip archive including documentation)
or a beta test release of HotPaw Basic version 1.4.6b0.0 (includes fixes for Treo 650 and the missing ^ character, 2007)  

This is a 30-day Free Demo of HotPaw Basic. Additionally, the demo version of HotPaw Basic also allows you to run up to 4 small Basic programs for an unlimited time period.

You can purchase a single-user registration for HotPaw Basic at these web sites: pdassi.de (European distributor).
Thanks for you support!

HotPaw Basic also requires that you have the MathLib 1.1 library installed. (zip archive, GNU LGPL, local copy )

HotPaw Basic Documentation and Example Programs:

• HotPaw Basic README text and Quick Reference Documentation - ( this is the most up-to-date documentation )
  
• An excellent HotPaw Basic Tutorial - Contributed by greertech.com  
  
• Basic Language text man page reference (just the Basic syntax) , HotPaw Basic preliminary HTML documentation (web page, obsolete version) , HotPaw Basic revision history , BCMD plug-in module source code and documentation (methods of extending HotPaw Basic for add-on developers).
• Some older tutorial material and some examples for HotPaw Basic

• Buy The Essential Palm Programming Guide a book by Christian Immler, which covers HotPaw Basic programming in detail.
  Info on another book in German on hardware interfacing using HotPaw Basic.
• Join the Yahoo Groups HotPaw Basic discussion forum to ask questions, share information, see problem reports, and find (or contribute) more HotPaw Basic programs. (New URL)

• LoanCalc.bas - an example of using the equation solver built into HotPaw Basic to solve for payment, interest rate or loan principal. (images)
  
• example MemoPlot.bas a HotPaw Basic program to graph data from your MemoPad (draws line graphs and XY scatter plots, also calculates some statistics on the data, zip file, version 1.4)
  
• example Parametric Graphing program for HotPaw Basic (text, includes subroutines for autoscaling chart grid)
• example Match Icons game in HotPaw Basic version with launchable applet.
• example Kanji Match Icons game in HotPaw Basic version with launchable applet.
• contributed RsrcMan 1.11, a Visual Form Editor for HotPaw Basic, by Magnus Wohlen .
• contributed Bitman custom bitmap editor in HotPaw Basic, by Magnus Wohlen .
• a website with some HotPaw Basic example code, plus tutorials and a new GUI editor, by Simon Nattress
• More small example programs for HotPaw Basic
• Matt Smith's Page has a nice Graphing program in Basic that will plot up to 6 user defined functions. (Written for the older cbasPad classic, but still compatible with HotPaw Basic.)
• greenchile505's HotPaw Basic (yBasic) website (example programs and tutorials)

There's also an experimental release of the new cbasPad5 a (pno)armlet Basic interpreter, for OS 5 only, here .

HotPaw yLexiSpell

• Given 4 to 6 scrambled letters, how many words of 3 or more letters can you find?
  Increase your score by finding longer words.
  Here's the twist: you get bonus points if you can spell a word backwards.
  Easy to play. Exercises your brain power.
  Includes a dictionary of over 9,000 words.
  You can choose between playing timed and untimed games.
  Keeps a record of your high score, average score and the percentage of words you've found.

• Download HotPaw yLexiSpell - version 0.2b0 (new version, updated for Treo 6x0 models) (zip file, 14-day Demo)  

• If you like this application, please register your copy of yLexiSpell at: Handango ( Thanks! )

HotPaw Utilities for Palm OS handhelds

Download yCPUBench - CPU Benchmark new Palm OS 5 handhelds (Tungsten, Treo, Zire) (version 0.9)

Some General Information about Palm Organizers

• Our Palm OS Computing General Information Page ( * including Beta-test HotPaw applications and Freeware applications )
• Ron's Short FAQ on PalmOS Handhelds ( Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for comp.sys.palmtops.pilot ; text version, less than 32K)

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