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- Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speeding up the coding process
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37758
Don't think about coding faster, think about coding better. Usually, the problem is not about writing fast, it's about thinking the code to write; you can't think that the computer will write the code for you (well, it could, but you'll always get similar programs, with a few changes). Make subrouti...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Should I stop making my RPG?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 35404
If you need a better dos emulator than the one included in winXP, use dosbox http://www.dosbox.com , it allow you to run your old programs in the original qb (so even external libraries can be used). Should work even in vista (even 64), and emulates 16-bit modes even if the os doesn't support them. ...
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:20 am
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: UNZIP IN QB 45 BETA Source
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14593
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:17 pm
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: UNZIP IN QB 45 BETA Source
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14593
Great!
It works even in FB, with a little change (http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopi ... 038#121038)
I could not believe that there was no unzip subroutine in QB, your work is really appreciated
It works even in FB, with a little change (http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopi ... 038#121038)
I could not believe that there was no unzip subroutine in QB, your work is really appreciated
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Text screen again...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18736
Use PRINT CHR$(...); to display special characters (see QBasic help--ASCII character table) Use COLOR foreground, background to display colors (a foreground bigger than 16 will make blinking text) Remember that if you are using your program under windows, maybe when it ends the window will close too...
- Wed May 13, 2009 3:31 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Another little game of my
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7044
- Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: OS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18634
You can write a program that works outside windows, since qbasic requires only dos. You can even write a GUI shell, with a windows-like interface (the most known one is GIMI) You cannot write a real OS, since qb runtime library (needed for memory management, strings, file I/O, graphics...) uses some...
- Sun May 03, 2009 2:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SGOS Worth it?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11340
It seems very similar to DexOs (http://www.dex4u.com). Have you already checked it?
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:29 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: run another program within qbasic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17503
If you are using a program written in qb, you can load it over DOS, and shell will work (but you won't be able to use long file names). If you are going to write your own kernel, you'll need something like bootprog to load it directly from the boot sector, but you have no dos services (so, no file c...
- Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GameBasic a good idea?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21139
Well, a game-oriented basic compiler is needed for DexOs ( http://www.dex4u.com ). DexOs is a tiny, dos-like 32-bit OS with an original GUI, that instead of using a window interface tries to simulate a gaming console. It's 100% written in ASM, so if you are a good ASM coder maybe it could be your ta...
- Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GameBasic a good idea?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21139
To be honest, I'm not much interested in a shareware. Also, XST Basic for DOS is already a good solution, and it's free. It can be found at http://www.geocities.com/snakessoft/xst.html or at http://www.geocities.com/snakessoft/vault.html . It provides an interpreter, a c emitter, 2d and 3d games cre...
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GameBasic a good idea?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21139
How are you going to do it? It will have a RAD/IDE or a command line? It will be an interpreter, a P-code compiler/interpreter, or a true compiler? An interesting idea could be a compiler that create flash or java executables (emitting java/actionscript code) so that games can be developed for inter...
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GameBasic a good idea?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21139
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Future of Windows 7
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27663
Maybe there will be again a microsoft basic embedded in the OS? M$ is developing a language called SmallBasic ( http://www.smallbasic.com ), and someone is asking about embedding it in Win 7 Read about it: http://services.social.microsoft.com/feeds/FeedItem?feedId=00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000...
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:46 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: qb in explorer under html
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16360
Why don't you post some exaples of your code, so we can test it? I'm not sure that I understand what did you do: you open qb from a HTML page, or you run qb commands inside the browser? (IE has VBscript, that is similar, for some aspects, to QB... did you use VBscript?) Qb inside web pages seems ver...
- Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:25 am
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: QB64 8.1 is out
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20284
QB64 8.1 is out
The new version of QB64 is available, with IDE similar to QB and support for linux
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:50 am
- Forum: Freebasic Questions & Answers
- Topic: QB/FB discriminator
- Replies: 1
- Views: 46173
QB/FB discriminator
This little piece of code allows to understand if a program has been compiled in FB (-lang QB) or QB. Declare Sub TestVersion () Dim Shared Version TestVersion: If Version = 1 Then Print "This is FreeBasic" Else Print "This is Quickbasic" Sub TestVersion Version = 1 End Sub Test ...
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:57 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: HTML to QB Colors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8536
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:24 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: PAINT command
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7977
The usage depends of screen mode. In monochrome (screen 2, screen 11...) the usage is very easy: The tile MUST have a width of 8 bit, and can have a variable height. You draw the tile by converting the bit-matrix to bytes. Example (drawing a cross): 00001000=8 00001000=8 00001000=8 11111111=255 0000...