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- Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:54 am
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: Scrapship, a randomized top-down shooter programmed in Qbasic
- Replies: 4
- Views: 56156
Re: Scrapship, a randomized top-down shooter programmed in Qbasic
Are you sure it is a QBasic program? The site claims that, but to me it looks made with QB64
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:45 am
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: Microsoft released a modern Qbasic for Windows 10
- Replies: 4
- Views: 37852
Re: Microsoft released a modern Qbasic for Windows 10
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...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:20 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Clearing half a screen fast
- Replies: 2
- Views: 29440
Re: Clearing half a screen fast
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- Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: shortening loading time for call absolute
- Replies: 4
- Views: 35163
Re: shortening loading time for call absolute
Can't you compile it to a .OBJ file, then make a QLB and a .LIB file? Or link it directly?
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:44 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Making QuickBasic 1.1 use less memory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 27830
Re: Making QuickBasic 1.1 use less memory
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...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:24 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: A bug in QB? Or is this a feature?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41405
Re: A bug in QB? Or is this a feature?
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...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:43 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: A bug in QB? Or is this a feature?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41405
Re: A bug in QB? Or is this a feature?
Wow! It's the first time in about 10 years that I see something new about QB, on this forum.
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: Well, is this the end?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 128848
Re: Well, is this the end?
Can. But it isn't.burger2227 wrote:This site can still be used for many programmers using QB64 who need ideas or help.
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:45 am
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: Well, is this the end?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 128848
Well, is this the end?
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.
- Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:40 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: Been a real long time
- Replies: 19
- Views: 136274
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 ...
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DOS-based IDE?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12818
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:18 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: CODES OPENER
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24460
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:56 pm
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: Seb McClouth is back
- Replies: 5
- Views: 31786
If you use freebasic, you could code a real operating system:
http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBASIC
http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBasic_Bare_Bones
http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBASIC
http://wiki.osdev.org/FreeBasic_Bare_Bones
- Thu May 10, 2012 12:08 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: VBDOS executable size?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14332
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...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: qbasic on android phones
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15656
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,...
- Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:58 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Calling function by reference for QB4.5/VBDOS 1.0?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12770
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: QB legacy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10790
QB legacy
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...
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Uploading problems...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14415
- Sun May 22, 2011 3:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Once upon a time... QBasic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10630
Once upon a time... QBasic
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...
- Thu May 19, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: TrueQB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11230