BobDye Interesting. You're using TBilt?
I probably stopped using True BASIC about the time you started. I don't think I'll do much programming with it now, but it's been a nostalgia hit to review it. As near as I can tell, I had been using TB 2.0, and had not seen any of the extensions in TB 3.0, nor the improvements in the IDE, such as it is. (Both were slight.)
Retrospectively looking at a future I did not notice then, it appears I may have experienced peak True BASIC in 1988, on a Macintosh computer. Also, the history of BASIC from about 1985-1995 is pretty fascinating. Digging bits and pieces out of the wayback machine about True BASIC's trajectory in this period is meager work.
The versioning was apparently insane. Here's a note from a 1990 reference manual:
This appendix describes the changes between True BASIC Versions 2 and 3 that are also incorporate in Version 5. It is primary for Macintosh users, who most recent version of True BASIC was 2.7 or 4.05, which is the Pro version of 2.7. True BASIC version 3.0 for DOS platforms differed from True BASIC 2.0 in a number of ways, mostly to conform to the ANSI Standard for BASIC (ANSI document X3.113-1987, American National Standard for the Programming Language Full BASIC, American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018).
Macintosh Versions
The changes can be described as either incompatibilities or extensions. The description below give the differences between Macintosh versions 2.xx and 4.xx as compared with DOS versions 3.xx and 4.xx, and Unix versions 4.x.
I hope True BASIC's code repository is not lost to the ether.