Pete's QBASIC Site

Are you sure it is a QBasic program? The site claims that, but to me it looks made with QB64

It is an open source program, written in javascript (with some WASM and TypeScript). It can be downloaded for free here: https://github.com/IshikawaMasashi/QBasic It is not windows only, it can be used also on Linux. It seems to be based on this old demo: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=92 , that hasn...

Can't you compile it to a .OBJ file, then make a QLB and a .LIB file? Or link it directly?

Yes, there is: don't use SHELL. If you want to execute other DOS programs, after your QB program, you should use a .BAT file that calls your program, and after that calls the other one. If you want your QB program to send a message to the .BAT file, you can use something like: DECLARE SUB ExitWithEr...

Here's an interesting bug I've found messing with my old QuickBASIC programs. ..... Then run it in any ORIGINAL DOS QuickBASIC (QBasic/QB4.5/PDS/VBDOS) and be shocked with its "correct" answer (10 10 10 2 :shock:) Interesting thing: I tried it in QB45, and indeed it happens like you descr...

Wow! It's the first time in about 10 years that I see something new about QB, on this forum.

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