Best IDE for BASIC

[aimeeandbeatles]

All right, so me and my friend are writing a kind of "choose your own adventure" story (interactive fiction), which we want as a standalone program. It's going to be text-only, so I thought BASIC should be good enough for it. (She's gonna write it, and I'm gonna program it)

Now, my question is, what is the best free BASIC IDE? I was looking at FreeBASIC and a few others, but I'm still a noob at this stuff, so I'm looking for suggestions. yabasic is good, but not standalone.

Thanks

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Visual Basic.NET express is free. But it's more like C# with different syntax.

BASIC sucks though, I'd recommend Python (free download from Python.org) instead, if C# is a bit scary.

EDIT: Oh, and get thee to Gamedev.net for all your games coding questions answered.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

thank you.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

As ParadigmShifter said, you should probably try using Python.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

i'll check it out thanks

 

[lndm]

BASIC sucks though,

Horses for courses. For the intended application I don't think it would suck, probably a good choice, actually.