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by Erik
Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:18 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: cha0s opens a new forum to try to fill the QBN void...
Replies: 4
Views: 38815

I think I might jump on the bandwagon myself. :P
by Erik
Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:34 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help with PRINT command...
Replies: 7
Views: 15744

If you're looking for something similar to the C/C++ "\n" then see the post above me. If you're going to be writing them out a lot, you could always create a sub called "DisplayBattleText" (or whatever) and store the text in there. Then just use a "CALL DisplayBattleText&quo...
by Erik
Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:01 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: game problem
Replies: 11
Views: 19818

Also, you could try using SUBs or GOSUBs instead of GOTO label markers. This might prevent "fall through" that could lead to strange and hard to track errors...
by Erik
Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: GeorgeBASIC
Replies: 5
Views: 13461

Sounds interesting. I wonder where it will land in the trade off of complexity, flexibility, and possible instability to simplicity, inflexibility and stability.

:D
by Erik
Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:29 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Display lines from text file
Replies: 10
Views: 17634

Re: No Money

idk about online, but I know at my town's Library there's still a bunch of Qbasic/QuickBasic programming books... this is a better idea if I had the money. Just to go out and $$$ one would be even better. It's just to go or do any thing out side my own home would cost money. ? You're library charge...
by Erik
Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:27 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: end if without block if error
Replies: 3
Views: 9119

Check to see if you don't have an extra "END IF" in your IF statement blocks.

I know I've found myself doing that sometimes when they get large... (esp. when they're nested)
by Erik
Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:24 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Is it possible to CALL the main module in a program?
Replies: 3
Views: 8854

Once your sub ends it dumps you right back to the line after it was called. :)
by Erik
Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:15 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Help with CALL ABSOLUTE
Replies: 4
Views: 9584

If you're using Qbasic it should work but in Quick Basic you need the following:
http://www.qbasic.com/classic/q&a.html wrote: ...load QBasic up like this from the command line: qb /l. This will fix all of your problems with programs that use the CALL ABSOLUTE command. Have fun.
Hope that helps!
by Erik
Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:09 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Display lines from text file
Replies: 10
Views: 17634

idk about online, but I know at my town's Library there's still a bunch of Qbasic/QuickBasic programming books...
by Erik
Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:00 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: GAME HELP
Replies: 6
Views: 14573

I actually used your way in one of the last programs I worked on. It worked great. (And wasn't as intense as I thought it'd be once I sat down with it :P)
by Erik
Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: qbasic license: really shareware?
Replies: 4
Views: 12610

Re: qbasic license: really shareware?

It's hard to imagine Microsoft releasing "pay after 30 days if you want" shareware. Is it really legal to distribute this software for use on versions of Windows with which it was not sold? I'm thinking because it came with MS operating systems from Dos 5.0+ to Win 9x that MS didn't feel ...
by Erik
Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: (Poll) Why use QBASIC?
Replies: 21
Views: 53296

I actually still use it for nostalgia and b/c it's quick and easy to throw something together... :D