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by ShadowWolf
Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:11 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Overflow
Replies: 7
Views: 12276

it might not be a logical problem. this Shell of yours is getting big right. you simple might have reached the point you have some much Code QB starts acting funny. try commenting out some unneed or simple take a unneed model and try a compile. another option would be to dump the QB ide and compile ...
by ShadowWolf
Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:03 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: QB quicklibrarys with C
Replies: 17
Views: 21611

your still going to need a 16 bit C compiler. i don't belive you can get away with using DJGPP so your going to have to pick up one of the older Borland Turbo C. or if you can find it Quick C (kind of like QB Same IDE)
by ShadowWolf
Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:26 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: DirectQB 2.0
Replies: 4
Views: 10119

if your going to build a usfull lib based off of directQB why not focus the effort in Freebasic that where the community is moving to. there is a simi need for a DirectQB compatible Lib to grandfather over old DirectQB games to freebasic. i was kind of writting one but the code got screwy and bugy a...
by ShadowWolf
Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I think I'm ready...
Replies: 11
Views: 15489

PQBC freebasic linux version runs on most linux distro can see why it woudn't work on Linspire 5.0
by ShadowWolf
Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:33 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: Believe me or not...
Replies: 19
Views: 25184

you know you might want to ask lillo about this just to get the Okay to use his lib name and API system
by ShadowWolf
Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:02 am
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: Spamming Today -- Site Database Corrupted
Replies: 6
Views: 17937

why not a simple hack to reject as submits for post with the word Texas and poker in them

or rejecting submits for post that have that URL in them
by ShadowWolf
Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:33 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: controversy free question: DSOCK + DOS?
Replies: 11
Views: 12429

i don't think freebasic dos version will have built in support for socket programming. for the simple fact writting a network backend from the ground up is a large job. writting all the network layers would take alot of time for IP and TCP/UDP protocals that would take atleast a month to write and t...
by ShadowWolf
Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I'm Arce...
Replies: 15
Views: 20787

ya you will like freebasic a lot more since it takes alot of things from C. also alot of things C users can't live with out like pointers are supported.

www.freebasic.net

it a command line compiler the primary IDE most people seem to use is FBIDE should be a link to it at www.freebasic.net
by ShadowWolf
Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:22 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: searching a file for specific data
Replies: 10
Views: 14843

if your going to store wapons status/iteam states in a file might be esayer for you to use a UDT like Type Iteams IteamName as string*20 iteamclass as integer ' you can sue this as a flag i.e. wapons or iteamextrainfo as integer ' heal then the next member in the type can end type 'define the attack...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: other basics
Replies: 10
Views: 15104

not a bad idea to have sub forums for FB and QB or other dialects of basic but there would be a nasty con to doing it. when the QBN forumed the FB subforums a uniqe little thing happened the QB related forums were neglected for the most part all the attention was in the FB forums. so FB based questi...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:37 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: NEW DirectQB! Assitance needed!
Replies: 3
Views: 6004

okay Z!re hasn't said anything so i guess it up to me to be the voic of reason. this looks like more vaporware to me if Zamaster really had the ablity to pull this off he would have shown a demo of it in work or atleast screen shots. his post even shows he doesn't have even a basic work model yet he...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jul 01, 2005 12:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Escaped from the FreeBasic country!
Replies: 13
Views: 19172

bla bla bal retro if i wanted 32bit i would use dev bla bla bla. the argument is flawed basic is a language it not restricted like any programing lang to some platform. people use basic because it's basic not because one version of basic was for 16bit system. also 16bit isn't retro go start programi...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QBasic.com is DOWN
Replies: 13
Views: 20066

holy crap i think the domain has changed hands. before it was register under network solution now it being handled by goDaddy.com. i think somone put snapback rights or challenged the domain name since www.qbasic.com was registered as a coperation which is illegal(at least somone told be that before...
by ShadowWolf
Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:19 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: qbinux Compiler
Replies: 4
Views: 7115

you don't need know asm. you just got to make up a bytecode lang somthing simple and low level.
by ShadowWolf
Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:16 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: qbinux Compiler
Replies: 4
Views: 7115

okay from what i have seen on qbinux from the quick google search doesn't look that advanced for a fake OS. although that could be old code and you improved it dramaticly. ok for qbinux to need a compiler it first need one big thing a byte code interputer. that way the bytecode the compiler outputs ...
by ShadowWolf
Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:08 am
Forum: Freebasic Questions & Answers
Topic: what about libraries such as DirectQB and FreeBASIC
Replies: 3
Views: 11332

directqb can't be used with FB because like the other poster said it a 16bit real mode gfx lib. FB is a 32bit basic compiler it generates 32bit asm instruction along with the memorey being Flat. also directqb use ems memorey somthing that does not exist in 32bit mode. but i am working on a SDL backe...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Like Percifal, you're the last on standing.
Replies: 5
Views: 9619

neozones still exist just new domain www.neobasic.net also www.qb45.com is back in working order. and http://forum.qbasicnews.com is also a big hub kind of then there TBN http://basicnetwork.net/. oh ya there also www.fbtk.net the reincarnation of qbtk freebasic has changed alot of stuff. www.freeba...
by ShadowWolf
Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Frustration Poll
Replies: 12
Views: 18903

painting your self into a corner that's always annoying. i have done that so many times although i never deleted a projected because i screawed up on the programs structor i just write nasty hacks to work around the problem. and then later i'll rewrite the project from scratch but keeping the stuff ...
by ShadowWolf
Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Want a good laugh?
Replies: 27
Views: 39509

hacking as in the orignal meaning was a term ment for people who riped apart pice's of hardware and hacked them togather to get somthing functional out of it. i.e for example back in the days of the first homegrown micro computers when kids and adults basicly through togather hardware with no real d...
by ShadowWolf
Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: give up the OS emulators
Replies: 6
Views: 10044

yess feed the Trolls feed them. there so very very entertaining watching them post there worthless opinions as if they ment somthing :)