NS BASIC announces Palm Programming Contest! NS BASIC Corporation is sponsoring its second programming contest for NS Basic/Palm. The deadline for entries is midnite EST, March 1st, 2001. There will be prizes awarded in 3 divisions: Business, Games and Open. Each prize is $100.00 USD, plus recognition as one of the top NS Basic/Palm programmers in the world. Applications will be judged on the basis of originality, usefulness and/or general coolness. The decisions of our celebrity panel of judges will be arbitrary and final. Programs can be written for any Palm OS device. Entrants must be registered users and can be from any country and be of any age. If you are willing, we would like to share your entry with other users. Please indicate with your submission whether you give us permission to put your program in the Downloads area of the NS BASIC website. Send your questions and entries to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. NS Basic/Palm is a complete, powerful development environment. You can write and test your BASIC program on the desktop, then download it to your device to run. * Easy to use, standard and structured BASIC * Over a dozen standard Palm OS screen objects * Create buttons, fields, popups, menus and more * Serial and IR Communications * Math and trigonometric function support * Produces standard standalone Palm apps * Built in database support * Test on the Palm OS Emulator * Lots of sample code * 150 page Handbook * $99.95, royalty free distribution Here are some useful pointers for more information: Tour: http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/Tour.html FAQ: http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/faq.html Specifications: http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/Specifications.html Samples: http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/contestresults.html What users say: http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/kudos.html There is also a demo program in NS Basic/Palm you can download that gives all sort of info about itself: http://www.nsbasic.com/NSBDemo.zip George Henne NS BASIC Corporation http://www.nsbasic.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
