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by GarryRicketson
Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Linux Newbie/QB64
Replies: 14
Views: 30755

Installer

Your welcome, I had the same problem, there was one SDL package, that was not showing up in the package manager, I am using Linux Mint 13, but had the same problem with Mint10, What distro , (version) are you using ?, Matt, whom wrote the installer, if it dose not work, for your distro, let us know,...
by GarryRicketson
Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Is Petesqbsite dead?
Replies: 25
Views: 61613

Happy New Year

A little late, but seriously, I wish every one a happy new year, I am glad to see petesqbsite is still alive, There seems to be some new, and interesting, programs and posts here, I hope to get back over here in the next few days, and read more, Guess for right now, that is about all I can think of ...
by GarryRicketson
Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hello from new member TuLithu
Replies: 3
Views: 11466

Welcome and hello

Hello TuLithu, Welcome, to the forum, I have not been here for so long, I am almost like a stranger, or a new comer, too,...I am glad I stopped in, this is where I started when I first tried qbasic, Interesting about Turkey, I have allways wished I could afford to go there and see the country, also ...
by GarryRicketson
Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Linux Newbie/QB64
Replies: 14
Views: 30755

Installing qb64 to Linux

These are some links to some threads that may help,. The first is a installer, that DSMAN wrote, it worked great for me, it even downloads qb64, then installs it , Linux installer http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=5315.msg54691#msg54691 Then these threads also discuss some problems people ha...
by GarryRicketson
Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:14 pm
Forum: Freebasic Questions & Answers
Topic: Is FreeBasic, the same as BASIC
Replies: 2
Views: 23327

Is FreeBasic, the same as BASIC

I am not trying to be funny or anything, but is FreeBasic the same as Basic ? My reason for asking is, I have never anything much with either BASIC or FreeBasic, what little I know is with qbasic, and qb64,.. all though qbasic and qb64 do have a lot in common, I did look at a little on Free Basic, b...
by GarryRicketson
Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Is Petesqbsite dead?
Replies: 25
Views: 61613

Some Time Ago

Well , not sure on Mallards, thats a new name to me,...This was over a year ago, lots of things changed, more,...Now I am trying to learn about Linux,..totaly new to me,...But I still enjoy, my Dos programs,..and qbasic,.. Good to get a reply though,--- here is my newest adventure: http://creativemi...
by GarryRicketson
Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QB legacy
Replies: 1
Views: 9745

XBasic? Xbasic, , XBlite. GaBasic, MoonRock, UltraBasic?
I had never herd of these, I did not realize there were so many,...
from Garry
by GarryRicketson
Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:37 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Works in QB4.5 but Not in Qbasic
Replies: 4
Views: 14266

Thank s

Both , Clippy and TmEE, Thanks for the replys,.. the errors I got were illegal functions, but I need to get the line numbers,.. I am worried, ...Ok Clippy ,says it ran fine,.. I have other qb4.5 and qbasic programs, that used to run fine, for me,..and just recently ,lately, many are not running,..On...
by GarryRicketson
Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:48 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Works in QB4.5 but Not in Qbasic
Replies: 4
Views: 14266

Works in QB4.5 but Not in Qbasic

This code worked ok in qb4.5, but if I just try to run it useing qbasic,..I get a lot of errors,.. SCREEN 12 OPEN "Asmile.AXB" FOR BINARY AS #1 ArraySIZE& = (LOF(1) - 7) / 2 DIM AsmileARRAY(1 TO ArraySIZE&) AS INTEGER CLOSE #1 DEF SEG = VARSEG(AsmileARRAY(1)) BLOAD "Asmile.AXB...
by GarryRicketson
Tue May 17, 2011 10:16 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: MY PAGE
Replies: 4
Views: 23180

colors, My Page

Opression, It dose look informative,..but the colors ?,..I have on my site a option, for the user to be able to switch the color sceme,...If you want I would be happy to share the html/css code,...? You can see the code here,or download the file as a .txt file. http://wittywittywhatisthat.freesmfhos...
by GarryRicketson
Tue May 17, 2011 9:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Posting images
Replies: 2
Views: 8707

Posting Images

Let me see, so I would do it like this:
I guess these are 2 ways,...
http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n56 ... Ricketson/

Image
And that is all there is too it ?
From Garry
by GarryRicketson
Tue May 17, 2011 9:52 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: COLORS ON QB SCREEN
Replies: 11
Views: 24208

PRINT QBCOLORS_qb64

LEGRAND: LOOKS VERY INTERESTING BUT I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THIS QB64 Ijust wanted to add it is real easy to install QB64,..only takes a couple of minuets.....Alot or most of what you already know about qbasic,can work in QB64, plus more things (commands),.. Ted knows alot more about it then me, thou...
by GarryRicketson
Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:56 pm
Forum: Freebasic Questions & Answers
Topic: 13 years old and intrested in programming a game...
Replies: 8
Views: 40070

Re: Tutorials,

Garry have you tried freebasic? Not really, I did sort of, I managed to do a hello world, then I started with qbasic, which led too qb64,... Sorry my response, is kind of out of date,...usually I get a e-mail notice of any replys, but never did ,just noticed now your question,..I amy sometime try s...
by GarryRicketson
Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:28 pm
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: Helloo
Replies: 11
Views: 58556

New Moderator ?

Are you realy ? Now thats news,...Image
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by GarryRicketson
Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MY very first program
Replies: 13
Views: 28856

bots

Actually not to much, I don't think, thats the first time that happend to me,
unless this is another one, he explained to me how he knew, but now I ahve forgotten,...
from Garry
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by GarryRicketson
Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PRINT "Hello World!"
Replies: 15
Views: 35118

OOPs! sorry about that, I made the correction.
from Garry
by GarryRicketson
Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PRINT "Hello World!"
Replies: 15
Views: 35118

not GIF in Qbasic. You can load BMP files using GET # file reads and using BSAVE or BLOAD. You will need a photo program to change GIF to Bitmap. I have already created these programs to do the dirty work. Goto this link: http://qbasicstation.com/index.php?c=p_member&filecat=2 I hope you know w...
by GarryRicketson
Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:22 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: LOOPS, QB64, QB4.5. and dos
Replies: 6
Views: 19449

I use DosBox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15387474/DOSBox0.73-win32-installer.exe Yes you need some kind of emulator Also this on is pretty good http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15387474/VDMSound2.1.0.exe and there are others,,... good luck from Garry P.S. The best way, is to have a seperate partition, for Dos, ...
by GarryRicketson
Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:51 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: New site design
Replies: 3
Views: 22367

looked nice

Well, just to say I took a look at your site, it looks nice, I will look forward to see what you add to it, over a period of time.
Anyway keep it going and add to it as you discover, or write new programs ,etc..
from Garry
by GarryRicketson
Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:55 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: My Piano (PLAY)
Replies: 0
Views: 21580

My Piano (PLAY)

I just started playing with this, Dose anyone know what code would make it hold a note (continuiously) until the key is released) if that is possible ? here is what I have so far: --------code below------ CLS REM Use A B C D E F G to play notes, W move up octv Z down also X ,S REM I find it is best ...