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by MystikShadows
Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Computer acronyms
Replies: 9
Views: 17027

DOS = Definitaly Overwriting Something

LCD = Load of Crap Display

Linux = lurah is never understanding X-window
by MystikShadows
Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:46 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Q Basic ?????????
Replies: 13
Views: 23678

by MystikShadows
Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Programmers Day
Replies: 12
Views: 24049

One date of reference is when the first bug was found

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/fir ... _large.htm

September 9th, 1945 :-)
by MystikShadows
Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:31 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: "^Line too long" error when making EXE
Replies: 14
Views: 15351

put it in a message here, with the code tags

[ code ] [ /code ] <- without the spaces
by MystikShadows
Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:37 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: "^Line too long" error when making EXE
Replies: 14
Views: 15351

one of those lines must be longer than 512 characters...

perhaps if you post the code, we'll be able to pinpoint it.
by MystikShadows
Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:35 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Network support in DOS
Replies: 2
Views: 7636

You might be surprised at what you can find here:

http://www.dossolutions.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/home.htm

or here:

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/We ... #Alternate

For example LSPPP might come in handy:
http://members.tripod.com/~ladsoft/lsppp/

Hope this helps.
by MystikShadows
Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:56 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: PCOPY! Issue 10 (10 our numbering system) is now here.
Replies: 2
Views: 12023

PCOPY! Issue 10 (10 our numbering system) is now here.

After some editing, the first issue of PCOPY! is now available.

No need for long post, just click here and read all about it. :-)
http://www.ascii-world.com/pcopy/issue10/
by MystikShadows
Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:05 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: big problem!!!!!
Replies: 16
Views: 47828

i tried making a hello world app for FB and the dos compiler does'nt make any thing but i might just do qb4.5 plus why have FB games\apps on a site that says QBASIC!!! Although I don't disagree with badmrbox's description ;-). There are better reasons hehe. FreeBasic is probably the closest thing t...
by MystikShadows
Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:11 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: skewed text menus
Replies: 5
Views: 10519

IS this assuming you want the numbers right justified? and you don't want the right vertical line to cut off or offset? (pardon my french, I'm not 100% sure what skewing mean. But one of the things I do is convert the number to a string with STR$ and add spaces based on the length of that string. (i...
by MystikShadows
Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: some c code
Replies: 45
Views: 63965

Hi again Seb.

There's a dos port of GCC called djgpp. You can get that right here:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

Hope it helps.
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

except for minix (a unix implementation designed to be studied), a neat readable core, I haven't really seen yet ;-)....I mean linux itself isn't that bad, but it could be alot better imo...:-)
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

that's rare for a core ;-)...but it's great to know that hehe.
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

what C code are you porting? and what is the poprted version looking like?
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

Quite possibly yes....maybe you just need to do something else for a day...and get back to it...I do that and usually the answer suddenly becomes very clear :-)...
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

I know there's subtle differences between PDS and VB-DOS professional...I wonder if it would be enough to fix this.
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:43 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

for the sake of experimentation, have you tried this with VB-DOS or the PDS ?
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:40 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: battle engine
Replies: 26
Views: 42902

Nice tutorial Eclipzer. you need to get writing on some more for your fans to read ;-) ... namely...me...from now on hehe.

Great work.
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

oh? hmmm...bummer...notsure what's happening...but you'd think QB manage itself better than this.
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

I see....ok so how is BC_DATA defined?
by MystikShadows
Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compile time
Replies: 24
Views: 30283

well typically this means a sub or a function is bigger than 64 Kb in length...or perhaps a data type (UDT for example maybe one with an array in it) would exceed 64Kb. IF youre using dynamic arrays of UDT's for example, if the TYPE definition length is not a multiple of a power of 2 (128, 256, 512,...