Aha, look what I found

FreeBASIC is an open source, 32-bit BASIC compiler with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others.

FreeBASIC has the following other editions available: FreeBASIC for Linux.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/FreeBASIC_for_Windows/1150122646/1

I might integrate this into SkyIDE and treat it like a C++ compiler.

.NET is cross platform in a way. MONO for Linux and Windows.

As much as I have "not" been doing any work lately, over the weekend I have spent a lot of time, almost entire day working on SkyIDE.

I think you will like what you see in here.

http://www.skyide.net/images/testing/betapart1.png
http://www.skyide.net/images/testing/betapart2.png

I have been very busy lately but I finally managed to find a way how to manage my time more efficiently.

Oh yes also, that code above is obsolete :) I don't use it. It started causing me a lot of "unexpected" problems so instead I moved the whole thing to the child window via design time and it does not take a lot of memory when creating new instances of the form.