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(I) Download FreeBASIC compiler & help

Welcome everybody!


 You can download FreeBASIC from SourceForge in this link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/files/

 If you use Microsoft Windows on your computer you can go to Binaries - Windows folder and download the zip file with the name FreeBasic-1.07.1-win32.zip that will run both 32 and 64 bits systems. Note: 1.07.1 is the last version while doing this blog entry.

 We will also download the help file going back and entering the folder Documentation and downloading the zip file FB-manual-1.07.1-chm.zip

 Now decompress both downloaded files in the path you desire. Me I decided to use my desktop.
Go into FreeBASIC-1.07.1-win32 folder and create a Projects folder that we will use to save our programs and their resources.
This is enough by now, in the next entry we will download and setup our IDE to write and run our programs.

 Contact me for any question, see you!

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