Pete's QBASIC Site

moneo wrote: I have the original Microsoft QuickBASIC reference manual. I never use QBasic, but when I need to look something up, I use the QB Online Help at Qbasicnews instead of having to go to my manual. They are fundamentally the same, and actually the QB Online Help is better and quicker to use...

Is there, by any chance, a copy of the language rreference manual on-line?

Any enlightenment will be appreciated.

Vic Fraenckel
victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com

Antoni wrote: Be warned QB-VBDOS comms had some quirks, some word widths wre incompatible with some stop bit numbers. I can find the exact values if you need them.. I would be interested in those exact values as part of my project would require RS232 comms with a microcontroller based sensor board t...

Thanks for the responses. I believe the questions were; 1.) Does QuickBasic 4.5 generate 16 bit code? and 2.) Does Visual Basic for DOS generate 16 bit code? Rattrapmax6 has answered question 1. What about question 2? Any enlightenment will be appreciated. :) Vic victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com

I have just acquired a copy of QuickBasic 4.5 and will be using it to produce code for a 16 bit 80188 level embedded controller. This requires the generated code bi 16 bit. The controller came with Borland's Turbo C++ version 4.5 (I think that is the version) which is the development platform from t...