Credits (in alphabetical order)

FreeBASIC

Credits (in alphabetical order)
 
Project Members

  • Andre Victor T. Vicentini (av1ctor[at]yahoo.com.br):
Founder, main compiler developer, author of many parts of the runtime, FB headers (FBSWIG)
  • Angelo Mottola (a.mottola[at]libero.it):
Author of the FB graphics library, built-in threads, thread-safe, runtime, ports I/O, dynamic library loading, Linux port.
  • Bryan Stoeberl (b_stoeberl[at]yahoo.com):
SSE/SSE2 floating point math, AST vectorization.
  • Daniel C. Klauer (daniel.c.klauer[at]web.de):
FB releases since 0.21, C & LLVM backends, 64bit port, dynamic arrays in UDTs, virtual methods, preprocessor-only mode, miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
  • Daniel R. Verkamp (i_am_drv[at]yahoo.com):
DOS, XBox, Darwin, *BSD ports, DLL and static library automation, VB-compatible runtime functions, compiler optimizations, miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
  • Ebben Feagan (sir_mud[at]users.sourceforge.net):
FB headers, C emitter
  • Jeff Marshall (coder[at]execulink.com):
FB releases since 0.17, FB documentation (wiki maintenance, fbdocs, offline-docs generator), Gosub/Return, profiling support, dialect, specifics, DOS serial driver, miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
  • Mark Junker (mjscod[at]gmx.de):
Author of huge parts of the runtime (printing support, date/time, functions, SCR/LPTx/COM/console/keyboard I/O), Cygwin port, first FB installer scripts.
  • Matthew Fearnley (matthew.w.fearnley[at]gmail.com):
Print Using & Co, ImageInfo, and others, dialect specifics, optimization improvements in the compiler, many fixes and improvements.
  • Ruben Rodriguez (rubentbstk[at]gmail.com):
Var keyword, const specifier, placement new, operator overloading and, other OOP-related work, C BFD wrapper, many fixes and improvements.
  • Simon Nash:
AndAlso/OrElse operators, ellipsis for array initializers, miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

Contributors

  • 1000101:
gfxlib2 patches, e.g. image buffer alignment
  • Abdullah Ali (voodooattack[at]hotmail.com):
Windows NT DDK headers & examples
  • AGS:
gdbm, zlib, Mini-XML, PCRE headers
  • Claudio Tinivella (tinycla[at]yahoo.it):
Gtk tutorials
  • Chris Davies (c.g.davies[at]gmail.com):
OpenAL headers & examples
  • Dinosaur:
CGUI headers
  • D.J.Peters:
ARM port, ODE headers & examples, Win32 API header fixes
  • Dumbledore:
wx-c headers & examples
  • dr0p (dr0p[at]perfectbg.com):
PostgreSQL headers & examples
  • Edmond Leung (leung.edmond[at]gmail.com):
SDL headers & examples
  • Eric Lope (vic_viperph[at]yahoo.com):
OpenGL & GLU headers & examples, examples/gfx/rel-*.bas demos
  • Florent Heyworth (florent.heyworth[at]swissonline.ch):
Win32 API sql/obdc headers
  • fsw (fsw.fb[at]comcast.net):
Win32 API headers, Gtk/Glade/wx-c examples
  • Garvan O'Keeffe (sisophon2001[at]yahoo.com):
FB ports of many NeHe OpenGL lessons, PDFlib examples
  • Hans L. Nemeschkal (Hans.Leo.Nemeschkal[at]univie.ac.at):
DISLIN headers
  • Jofers (spam[at]betterwebber.com):
ThreadCall keyword, libffi/libjit headers, FreeType examples
  • Jose Manuel Postigo (postigo[at]uma.es):
Linux serial devices support
  • Laanan Fisher (laananfisher[at]gmail.com):
FB test suite using CUnit
  • Matthew Riley (pestery):
OpenGL, GLFW, glext, FreeGLUT, cryptlib headers
  • Matthias Faust (matthias_faust[at]web.de):
SDL_ttf headers & examples
  • Marzec:
SDL headers, SDL_bassgl, SDL_opengl and SDL_key examples, First file routines for FB's rtlib
  • MJK:
big_int header fixes
  • MOD:
wx-c, BASS headers; -lang qb support for built-in macros, "real" Rnd() algorithm
  • Nek (dave[at]nodtveidt.net):
Win32 API headers
  • Plasma:
FMOD and BASS headers & examples
  • Randy Keeling (randy[at]keeling.com):
GSL matrix example
  • Saga Musix (Jojo):
BASS examples with sounds
  • Sisophon2001:
gfxlib2 fixes, Nehe OpenGL lesson ports
  • Sterling Christensen (sterling[at]engineer.com):
Ex-project-member, author of FB's initial QB-like graphics library
  • TeeEmCee:
gfxlib2 fixes
  • TJF (Thomas.Freiherr[at]gmx.net):
ARM port, GTK+, glib, Cairo, Pango headers & examples, SQLiteExtensions headers
  • zydon:
Win32 API examples

Greetings

  • Plasma:
Owner of the freebasic.net domain and main site hoster, many thanks to, him.
  • VonGodric:
Author of the first FreeBASIC IDE: FBIDE.
  • Everybody that helped writing the documentation (and in special Nexinarus who started it):
http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=ContributorList
  • All users that reported bugs, requested features and as such helped improving the compiler, language and run-time libraries.