Pete's QBASIC Site

burger2227 wrote:This site can still be used for many programmers using QB64 who need ideas or help.

Can. But it isn't.

Ten years ago this site celebrated the fact that it was ten years old. Now, that announcement is still the most recent one: in the last ten years, nothing new has been done. So, I'd say that petesqbsite could be considered officially abandoned, and just an historical archive.

We could use an update in participation around here! All I do anymore is control spammers. This forum has become a satellite of QB64 forum. Is there anybody, here, who still use qbasic? Or everybody uses qb64? Because, for qb64 users, there is no point in using this forum. Also, the site is almost ...

A very good IDE in dos already exists:

http://www.rhide.com/

Are you sure you're trying to open YOUR folders? Or you are trying to crack somebody's else folders?

If you use freebasic, you could code a real operating system:

http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBASIC

http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBasic_Bare_Bones

You complain about a file of 150 kilobytes ? Nowadays there are hard drives with a storage of 1-2 Terabytes , and files of 1-2 Gigabytes can be downloaded in half an hour, and you care to spare 20 kb? Well, the compiled file is so huge because it include also some runtime libraries (i.e. all the stu...

QBASIC is for 16 bit x86 processors, smartphones use 32 bit arm processor. And qb cannot be recompiled for smartphones because nobody here has the source code (only microsoft has it); there is a pseudo-source code of qbasic, but it's in assembly so it's still processor-specific. QB64 can, in theory,...

In FreeBasic, you can do that by using a function pointer.

In QB, you'll have to use CALL ABSOLUTE... but your function needs to be written in assembly (qb itself doesn't allow function pointers)

QB64 is considered the heir of qbasic. But there were other offrings: the most know is FreeBasic, but do you remember XBasic? Xbasic, like QB64 and FreeBasic, has been originally written in QB, then it became self-hosting; and, from it, originated XBlite. And who recall less fortunate compilers writ...

Wow, Harry, you are alive!

I'm glad to see you are coming back.

I was looking some old qb e-zines (my favourite was QBCM), and a thought came in my mind: in year 2000, there was a lot of speculations and previsions about the future of basic. Somebody said qbasic was dying, and somebody proposed solutions. There was no dosbox, no qb64, no freebasic... there was o...

dead site

Have you tried booting your machine in DOS mode? You should be able to do that using mouse only, from windows. If your keyboard works in dos, it's a setup/driver problem, otherwise, it could be an hardware problem. If it's an hardware problem, you can determine if it depends on computer or on keyboa...

1) A program compiled with qb contains not only your code, but also runtime code (i.e.: the PLAY command provides a true mini-language, it needs a sort of "interpreter", and it will be included in the .exe file, consuming memory) 2) use COMMAND$ variable: in your example: myprogram.exe /h COMMAND$ w...

Lately, I got back at work; also, I wrote something for Back to Basic, and now I'm messing with MiniB3D (I hope to be able to release a new version).

I haven't tested your program, but I believe the error is in section: FOR i% = 2 TO 28 Align 13, i%, "El Cielo es Caiendo!" Align 13, i% - 1, SPACE$(19) ... In fact, Align should print "El Cielo es Caiendo" at row I%, using color 13. And, in your loop, I% goes from 2 to 28; the problem is.... there ...

Answer to question 1: The official way to repeat a set of commands is by FOR... NEXT for i= 1 to 5 play "abcdefg" print "hello" next If you want to do the same in DO ... LOOP I=0 DO I=I+1 play "abcdefg" print "hello" LOOP UNTIL I=5 You need to use a variable (the Iterator) that is increased every ti...

Save the .bas file as text, not as binary, so it can be loaded also with QB64

If you want to have the same syntax of QB, the first line of your program must be: