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I noticed on Rubber Mallet's website, they said the web server version only allows one connection at a time, but I guess that's not an issue because you only have the one system talking to it or was that updated as well?
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And now, I'm using it more than ever due to my future goal, running a lazertag center.
Yes, I made custom hardware with an 8052-based microcontroller that people think is old, and meant to be abandoned but electronic shops today STILL sell that microcontroller! and THAT is even more old-school than Quick Basic.
Nice thing about that micro is that it has an on-board uart and despite its uart only having a 1-byte buffer where as the one in the PC has a 14 or 16-byte ring buffer, it communicates with my code in Qbasic flawlessly. and get a load of this... I have no problem with 56Kbps communication and I didn't even use assembly at the Qbasic end to achieve this. I referred to the old beyondlogic.org pages on how to set the serial speed beyond 9.6Kbps. Its stored on 3rd party servers because beyondlogic changed their site since. but here's a copy:
http://wearcam.org/seatsale/programs/ww ... erial1.htm
Now to add to the mix, I made my code as an external CGI application to rubbermallet's webserver software (also written in QuickBasic). See:
http://rubbermallet.org/software/webserv.html
And I also used Dos TCP utilities which the author updated just last year to see if tcpip works which it does!
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
So basically what I did is turn a portable computer into a DOS web server that loads content but the content is based on what my custom microcontroller hardware spits out to the server, so in effect, the computer is the proxy server and the mini hardware is the server itself. I'm going to reply with pictures and steps people can take if they want to pull off the same kind of thing themselves.
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If you haven't yet checked the QB64 site, you should. The people there are enthusiastic for programming, but QB64 uses 4.5 and I find it limiting due to some necessary issues it has in order to run on 64-bit machines, including Win. I'll stick with 7.1 in DB, thanks. And thanks again to Pete for keeping this whole site up.
Statistics: Posted by nikomaru — Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:46 pm
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Does QB64 have a decent sized community? I never got into it so I don't know. I guess there's also the issue with the number of BASIC versions/types around throughout the years splitting things up. You have C64, Atari, MS, and many others splitting the community. I actually just started learning BatariBasic for Atari 2600 recently and it's a whole different beast than QB even if the syntax has some similarities.
Probably another issue is that even Visual Basic is on the decline. After it moved to VB.net, it changed from a more similar syntax to a re-skinned C# language (And even then, people are using it less and less).
Anyway, I've been floating around since the QB hay day and it's crazy to see how empty it is these days. Hopefully we'll get more people popping back for nostalgia reasons!
Statistics: Posted by Erik — Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:59 am
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That is why many now use QB64, but its site has been hard to link to at times.
I edited the QB64 WIKI which also has old QB code that may work.
M$ also blocked serial and parallel ports which I dealt with in my QB tutorial that can be downloaded from my signature below...
Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:54 am
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Yes, if we treat it like a "real" programming tool, it's kinda... no-way
But, if we think of it as a part of retrocomputing universe, why not?
It's like an old DOS game or Arduino, and a lot of people have warm memories with it.
Statistics: Posted by RETROQB45 — Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:50 am
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Perhaps up in the Pete's site area up top...
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But this website still does get a fair amount of traffic, all things considered.
The big tutorials archive is still the most used part of the site... lots of beginning programmers around the world still start on QB, believe it or not.
I plan to keep the site up forever, but will probably never do any major updates on it ever again.
Statistics: Posted by Pete — Wed May 30, 2018 6:31 pm
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