Liquid Studio

[Bryan Flick]

I have spent the last few years developing Liquid Studio, a BASIC-like programming language with lots of features.

From the website:

Liquid Studio is a powerful development suite that creates programs for the Liquid Virtual Machine (LVM). Programs are written in Echoes, a modern object-oriented BASIC-like programming language.

Liquid Player implements the LVM, a virtual machine that sits on top of Windows. Programs that run in the LVM have access to many advanced features, such as consoles, 2D/3D graphics, audio, SQL databases, XML, Internet access, and much more!

Programs written with Liquid Studio compile into a compact bytecode, called a Liquid Executable. Liquid Executables, along with the Liquid Player application to run them, can be distributed royalty free.

Check it out at http://www.globalheavyindustries.com

Thanks,
Flick

[tide]

Bryan,

This is a fantastic looking program. You have obviously put a lot of thought into designing the language and implementing it along with the IDE - and succeeded admirably. Liquid Studio is now on my to buy list - just as soon as I pay off some of my Christmas shopping bills.

[tide]

Here's an update. I've had a chance to become more acquainted with Liquid Studio over the past couple of days and I have to say that the more I use it the more impressed I become with it. So much so that I even bought a license despite not having paid off my Christmas bills yet!

LS is brim full of features. It's reminiscent of C++ with its object oriented structure but is far far easier to use. You might call it object BASIC. You can mix and match graphics and console programming. Graphics include a full array of 2D and 3D functionality including textures and lighting. And don't let the fact that it's a byte code interpreter dissuade you from trying it out. It's one of the fastest I've seen particularly with regard to graphics.

I've barely scratched the surface with all the built-in features and I'll be busy exploring them for a while. It comes with a vast array of informative and entertaining sample programs that show off many of its features. If you want to mix programming and fun then I can heartily recommend Liquid Studio.