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lps <<= 1 is essentially equivalent to lps = lps * 2, assuming you are running outside the IDE so that overflow doesn't cause an error. The while (lps <<= 1) loop will run until the last 1 bit "falls off" the high end of lps (which is probably a 32-bit int). Similar code for BASIC: do while lps <> 0...

@echo off REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment. REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF. REM Install CD ROM extensions lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe REM Install network...

Guest wrote:P.S. DOSBox is not an Emulator unless you're running on AMD processors. It is a Virtual Machine if you're using an Intel processor.

Huh?

DOSBox Information wrote:DOSBox is a DOS-emulator ...

DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 ...

DOSBox is an emulator, regardless of who made your CPU.

No, uGL is a totally different library built by different people. uGL is designed better and implemented better than Future.Lib.

Nathan1993 wrote:If you do have an issue, use DosBOX: the best DOS emulator ever (next to FreeDOS, but that's an OS by iteself).

You've got the capitalization backwards; it's "DOSBox".

You need a packet driver (dunno if there's an equivalent for dial-up) and a DOS port of wget, like the one here: http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/

Antoni wrote:uGL rocks!

+1

Just a side note: PowerBASIC is the descendant of Turbo BASIC - according to Wikipedia, Bob Zale wrote it, then sold it to Borland, then bought it back when Borland no longer wanted to sell it.

Well, I was just curious... For a small look at some different browsers other than the big 6 (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, and Safari), check out this handy page: http://browsers.evolt.org/ - it's a little outdated though, but it has older versions of Mosiac, the browser Mi...

Apparently, you can access ext3 (and ext2) file systems from Windows with this thing: http://www.fs-driver.org/ In any case, I've given up on running multiple OSes on one box, so Samba/Windows file sharing works just fine for file transfer. What computing really needs is quieter, cooler equipment an...

The best QB library for game programming or anything remotely similar is UGL. Nothing comes near it in speed or capabilities (VESA, Sound Blaster waveform audio and module playback, keyboard, mouse, blits of all sorts, optimized affine and perspective-correct texture-mapped triangle drawing, etc...)

May I remind you Z!re is capable, and likely to, murder you? This sentence not English! :) If you remove the appositive: "May I remind you Z!re is capable murder you?" :wink: Anyway, ZLIB seems like a pretty nice license to me, but I usually prefer the GPL for non-libraryish things. Bad stuff happe...

Yeah, FB's RANDOMIZE and RND are built around the libc srand() and rand() functions, which are implemented differently on various platforms. You could probably get away with writing your own pseudo-random number generator if you need a reproducible set of "random" numbers from a particular seed.

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I don't believe this has anything to do with QB, but anyway... Get a tape deck with a line output (NOT amplified speaker output). This will probably be one or two RCA-style connectors, so get a stereo RCA male-to-male cable (plus a Y adapter if the tape deck only has a single output jack), attach on...

You can use PRINT without any arguments to jump to the next line:

Michael Calkins wrote:

by holding F5

Pressing F8 gets you a menu from which you can choose "Command prompt only".
HIMEM.SYS, and thus XMS should be loaded either from your CONFIG.SYS or automatically.

As I already stated, this only works in Win9x derivatives, not in NT-based OSes like Windows XP.

Windows XP cannot be started in "Pure DOS mode"; that's only available in the Win9x family (95, 98, Me). You also cannot disable the mouse driver; it's built into the NT VDM. (There may be some way to disable it, but it would not be useful.) I assume this is just a bug in the emulated mouse driver -...

Oh, the irony...