I was thinking about getting the PowerBASIC compiler and after visiting their site saw they have two main versions (Windows and Console Compiler). My main use would be putting my Big Integer stuff into a thinBasic module (and I'm thinking about a high-precision floating-point module) and larger projects for myself. For daily programming I would probably still use thinBasic as working with an interpreter is so much easier, and thinBasic has all the stuff I could ever want.

Is it true that you need the Windows version of PowerBASIC to be able to create DLLs?

Also, the previous version of PB is a quarter of the price of the most recent one (US$49 instead of US$199), which is of course a great bargain. Would I be missing out on useful or necessary stuff if I got PB/W v8 instead of v9 (or the announced v10)? Again, I would be using PB mainly for creating thinBasic modules and speeding up processing that is complicated to program in assembler.

Thanks in advance for any information.