Mac Programming
RealBASIC is a cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) development tool available in a trial version. Price ranges from ¥9,900 for the Personal Edition, to ¥118,000 for Real Studio.
FBtoC creates Mac OS X universal applications (Mach-O executables) from FutureBasic projects. FutureBasic is freeware.
Chipmunk Basic is an old-fashioned freeware Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Apple Macintosh computers. It uses a traditional command-line console. Supported features on Mac OS X include color graphics, sprites, sound (including Quicktime MIDI sounds and morse code), speech synthesis, matrix ops, AppleScript, network sockets, pipes, serial I/O, and even some rudimentary OOP (object oriented programming) capabilities. Versions are available for System 6.0.7 thru Mac OS X 10.6, for systems from very old Mac 512Ke’s, up thru the latest Apple iMacs & MacBook Pros.
Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. Sponsored by Novell, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.
