Pete's QBASIC Site

Uhm... Waits for a keypress...

Doesent fill the buffer, and doesent mess everything up like SLEEP does.


SLEEP should be avoided like a plague and syfilis infected 70yr old obesed... err... woman that.. err.. do stuf... err.. for money.. err...

Start QB from the commandline like this:

If using QB45:
QB /LQB


If Using PDS71:
QBX /LQBX

There are ways around that... I'm using a 32MB world map, and over 2200 tiles, all of which are 64x64... Not counting the sprites, which range from 32x32 to 128x128... Only loading the needed psrites into memory is the trick. Like... you don't need the LAVA tile, when you're in the smiths house, do ...

Name of Mag: SpearheadQB, or QB Spearhead


And as a subline: "Spearheading the ways of QBMags since [and the date of first release here, I'm too lazy to check it up]"

QB Spearhead

Spearhead QB



"Spearheading the way of QB Mags since [start date here]"

1) REM $DYNAMIC DEFINT A-Z SUB Mouse (AX%, bx%, CX%, DX%) MouseData$ = "5589E58B5E0C8B07508B5E0A8B07508B5E088B0F8B5E068B175B581E07CD33538B5E0C8907588B5E0A89078B5E08890F8B5E0689175DCA0800" Mousei$ = SPACE$(57) FOR I% = 0 TO 56 a$ = MID$(MouseData$, 1 + I% * 2, 2) H$ = CHR$(VAL("&H&...

I've never seen a program that can't be compiled using PDS 7.1 Either from inside the IDE, or from the commandline. If you are using QB45, or PDS 71 (QB71) then you do: Run -> Make EXE: Enter your options, make sure to select: Stand Alone EXE. Press Ok... Now there will be an EXE in your current fol...