Mobile basic looks interesting... Looks like their current version is web based only which doesn't really interest me. It also looks phone-centric which also isn't my cup of tea. But it's basically a BASIC to Java converter. I'll take a closer look later.
You can still download the PC compiler... the environment is not highly sophisticated but its functional enough and emulates (to how accurate a degree I cannot say) a variety of phones. Not being able to import GFX into the tile editor is a bit of a pisser, but at least there
are tile and map editors and I read that work is ongoing. Compare it to Omega BASIC (which doesn't even appear to
do anything at the moment) though, and it becomes easier to appreciate MB.
I just wonder how easy it is to make MB applications play ball on a real phone... y'know, suspending when a call arrives etc. I've never seen it mentioned on their forums.
EDIT: Oh, there's also NetBeans and its
mobile package... with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit that'll get you up and running with what looks like a nice Java enviroment. (Java scares me, personally - I didn't realise the virtual machine was such an empty shell until I took a look at some "simple" example code and noticed that... phew, it's
massive because you have to have classes for
everything under the Sun. Pun intended.)