Superbase is an end-user desktop database program that started on the Commodore 64 and was ported from that to various operating systems over the course of more than 20 years.
It was often used only as an end-user database but a very large number of applications were built throughout industry, government, and academia and these were often of significant complexity.
The Amiga version also featured an internal language and the capability to generate front end "masks" for queries and reports, years before Microsoft Access.
Eventually a Microsoft Windows version was released and a couple of years later the company was sold by its founders to Software Publishing Corporation.
This relatively unknown company created a subsidiary called Superbase, Inc. and after finishing off the late stage alpha of version 3 and launching it as Superbase 95, eventually appeared to have lost interest in the product, at which point it was bought by a small group of former customers and brought back to the UK.
In April 2009 this company launched SIMPOL Professional, which is the next generation product, as a cross-platform language and database tool set.
[3] Superbase has been used for very basic end-user tasks, but its real strength lies in the ability of relatively untrained programmers to create complex applications.
It concluded that "anyone planning on harnessing the C-64 in an office or business environment can't go wrong with SuperBase".