PowerBASIC Inc was the company set up by Robert Zale in 1989 to continue development and support of the BASIC compiler he had bought back from Borland, which was renamed PowerBASIC. It published PowerBASIC 2.0 through Spectra Publishing in May 1990 and published release 3.0 directly in 1993, then developed the Windows compilers PBWIN and PBCC alongside the DOS product. Zale died in November 2012, and the company later said it would continue operating and work on new versions, but no version after 10.04 in 2011 was released. In 2016 the owner sought a buyer, and in January 2017 Drake Software announced that it had acquired the PowerBASIC source code from PowerBASIC Inc.
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set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue further development and support
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Bob Zale, in 1989, purchased back all the rights to Turbo BASIC source code, renamed it PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue further development and support.
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