Pete's QBASIC Site

Yes, windows, dos, and linux. Cross-compatibility is great. Me, Lurah, and PQBC all use linux and everyone else uses windows. Yet we can still run their programs without any much problems, if any at all...

Moneo, I was trying to make it easy for him to understand, not be technichial (wow, I suck at spelling...) about it.

Don't listen to RDC! As the first person mentioned... www.freebasic.net!!!

Darn, he beat me to it. Freebasic is the best, you already know it if you know any microshit varient of basic.

I library is a collection of subroutines that are in an external program and "included" into you program. Because many people need speed-intesive routines for games and QB lacks and speed in graphics, libraries are ofton written to replace QB's graphics routines with faster and more routin...

Thanks! I have been using too much linux lately...

It might, but it might not, since dqbman builds dqb.qlb... if that doesn't work, make sure you are using QB version 4.5 and maybe thinking about re-downloading it.

I was gonna say that...

When you install the printer (add a printer) you must click "Yes" to "Allow DOS programs to print" or something like that then set it to LPT:1, Then, you can just use the LPRINT statement.

You could try implimenting it into a QB file as Data and '$INCLUDE: ing it,,, but then you wouldn't be able to have it all in one time...

*cough* *freebasic for dos* *cough*

I'll do that next time I'm on windows/dos (may be a while).

I got my dos emulation running perfectly in ubuntu. The copy+paste always works, its much faster than windows... maybe he just needs to update his system?

Err... I downloaded it to test my new linux skills just for the heck of it (because last time I couldn't figure anything out) and it wouldn't compile. Here is debug.txt. (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1993. <S. McClouth -- MS-DOS Versie 6.20 -- di 21-03-2006 -- 15:31:18,06> C:\PROJECT\MCQB>compile...

Will QBinux ever have support for linux programs?

It is now...

lol @ nek... so... sigg'd!

Yes. Open up notepad and copy + paste this. @echo off qb.exe -l And save that as a .bat file in your QBASIC directory. Double click it, open DQBman, and run it. Also, to start DQB you will have to this in a .bat file. @echo off qb.exe -l dqb Again, in your QBASIC directory. DQB has to be in there to...

I would be interested in a tutorial that shows how to do read directory contents, CD, MD, RD, all that kind of stuff that you usually need to do by hand.

You just realized that? Just kidding... yeah, it does own QB's ass, doesn't it?!

Yeah, since it's not running on the linux kernel, it's not a linux distro. It's more of a linux shell or linux port...