 Lightwright 1.0 was written in QuickBASIC for MS-DOS and released in August 1988.Lightwright 2.0 was released in January 1995 for both Microsoft Windows and MacOS, and written in Visual Basic and ZBASIC respectively.The subsequent two versions—Lightwright 3.0 (1998) and Lightwright 4.0 (2003)—were maintained using separate code (Visual Basic / ZBASIC) for each operating system.