Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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In this series of videos, which are aimed at those who have never coded in PowerBasic before, I cover one element of the language or programming - today we're looking at how to load and save the in-built Link List Collections in both the PowerBasic Console and Windows compilers.

Allowing storage of Strings, Arrays and UDTs all in the same collection to be saved to and loaded from disk.

00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - Preparing to load and save collections
05:15 - Initialisation of Data
07:03 - Saving the Collection
10:17 - Initialise Data function
12:16 - Loading the collection
15:46 - Testing the load from file
16:35 - Adding to collection after load
18:37 - Summary

I don't work for, nor am I paid by, the owners of PowerBASIC or any company mentioned in these videos , I'm just a fan of their products.

For more information on PowerBASIC visit pbusers.org

Music by ghosthack.de

Source files for these projects are available from here
gsfsoftware.co.uk/PBTutorials/Projects.htm

GitHub
github.com/gsfsoftware/Tutorials/tree/master/Both_Snippets_LinkList_3