Pete's QBASIC Site

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:

I'm Italian.

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... piler.html

Can this help you?

As for QBasic or any other BASIC, it is not dead. Many programmers still see it as an important part of the programming world and that you are missing out i you do not learn QBasic. I've never said that: qbasic is still used (at least, on network54 there is still a community), Freebasic is in good ...

General interest in Basic coding has been decreasing since newer PC's cannot run Qbasic properly. But Network54 is still active. Plus negative people like you tend to lose my interest! I'm not negative. I like coding in basic, and I often use freebasic (have you seen my MiniB3D port? I hope it will...

Last site update: 2008 Last QBExpress update: 2008 Forum has posting bugs. When somebody asks for help, the answer is almost the same (i.e. "how can I run QB under Windows 7? Use QB64. How can I use more than 256 colors? Use QB64. How can I use sounds? Use QB64. How ...? USE QB64!") This site was on...

Because he is one of the last users still here...

FB is 32-bit, it's faster, supports OOP, and can produce executable for DOS, Windows and Linux.

Beside that, it's compatible with QB.

At the end of 2008, many communities suffered (effect of the recession?) FB community is coming back to life: there are some developers working on the compiler (V1ctor came back for a while, and there is also dkls). Also, FreeBasic is now in the list of the best compilers for linux, so it should gro...

Many QBasic fans have switched to QB64 (and since the success of QB64 started in 2008, that's why in 2008 the qbasic community "disappeared") Back in the past, many QB fans switched to FreeBasic, because it was very similar to QB, and very compatible; but now, Freebasic is going on its own way, and ...

This one?

http://hem.passagen.se/hedsen/prg/others/acid30.zip

E.K.Virtanen wrote:Hi all.
There is copies of it at web.archive.org, but site at geocities does not exist anymore.

geocities does not exist anymore, it has been shut down on Oct 27, 2010.

Use input$

That's what I do: I write a message, select all, copy it, and try to send: if I need to log in again, I do, then I paste the selected text and send it.

Looking now at my first experiments with QB (that I've written years ago), I see many errors, bad practices and spaghetti code. I'm sure that I'm not the only one: many of us have realized horrible, bad coded programs that actually work well, and only later we've understood how to code properly. So,...