Pete's QBASIC Site

I used to have a TI-10, a $150 calculator that did the four basic arithmatic functions, plus SQUARE ROOT! Due to my being an electrical engineer in the power consulting business, the square root was a real wonder for me and made my short circuit calculations so much easier! Then, I bought myself a T...

Right click on the top, blue bar where Microsoft QuickBASIC is, then select Defaults, select the Layout tab. In the second frame on the right-hand side, change the height to 39. This should allow up to 36 visible lines on your screen.

To Paste in QB, click on the left-topmost corner of the windowed QB screen, or just to the left of the QuickBASIC name, choose Edit, Paste, done. SUBs hae a little problem, in that two, instead of one, END SUB appear at the bottom of each SUB, so, one must be removed. Also, indentation is sometimes ...

Oops, posted twice! Sorry. How does one delete such a second posting?

As Burger 2227 explained to you in your next post, we believe that homework is a very necessary part of one's path towards learning, so, "we don't do homework". However, all here want to help others. It is our firm intention to help if you make an honest effort and post some code, explaini...

I must say that I have gained from each of the above posts! :D In particular, I love burger2227's very simple code for the 256 colors in SCREEN 13, and kiyotewolf's color-number table, with group descriptions. I noticed that there are three repeating groups of 72 numbers each, namely: 1st group: 32 ...

Let's say you have a 4-pixel-long snake, and that is located at coordinates x,y, as follows: (4,10), (4,11), (5,11), and (5,12). To move it so the last pixel, (5,11), which I will call the head, moves down one pixel, with the rest following, just review my SnakeRAE code, as it is all there. Now, to ...

Well, Malifecs, coding is such a vast field, that one can only concentrate on one thing at a time. At this point, I feel that I supplied you with some code that you should study and understand. Then, you can do a few, experimental changes, with some forethought about what you expect to happen, in or...

I guess Malifeks' snake is hibernating! LOL!

Malifeks, here is a sample program for you. I am not using the code option, which you reported changed your code: '=============================================== 'SnakeRAE serves as a guide for making snake-like games. SCREEN 13: w = 320: h = 240 CLS LOCATE 8, 13: PRINT "S N A K E" 'color...

Malifeks: It is obvious to me that you have not run this program! Which makes me think you might not have made it. The program base is fairly done, the graphics seem too superior to have been made by you, without even having run the program. As to limiting the snake's size, you can do that by using ...

Exploring farther:

My QuickBASIC 4.5 Help/Modules/Modules and Procedures says that there can only be one main module, or "the main program". So, it would seem to me that you need to farther reduce your code, anyway you can, before you can create your object and compiled files.

The url below deals with "Program memory overflow" in qbx (PDS), as due to too many constants )over 680). Perhaps that is your problem? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/61349 Also, this question is answered here: http://www.outer-court.com/basic/echo/T37.HTM In the second case, the error me...

gurmeet: I will try to help you after you fix your option2 label, as you still haven't fixed it! Why haven't you addressed this problem? If you do as we have asked you more than once, "Run your program", you would have found that to be a problem, and would have tried to fix it. Remember, w...

As to "the option 2 thing". It's quite simple. Labels cannot have spaces (empty places), so, just change it from option 2: to option2: See the difference? EDITED ON April 18, 2008: In a previous post, I wrote, as correct code, the partial line: AND(Y <12> THEN WRONG! Please change it to: A...

Mestrinho: Because it seems that Michael will be pretty busy, I am taking the liberty of informing you that Michale has already pointed out that the following partial code is wrong: IF melh <5> 1 THEN In BASIC and QB, the above line should be written as: IF melh > 1 AND melh < 5 THEN O.K., it seems ...

Lee: If you only want the text background to match the SCREEN background, here is another way. Since it involves GETting and PUTting, first of all, let us know if you understand how to use those two graphics statements. Assuming you do, here's how: 1. Print the string. 2. DIMension an array to (L*8,...

gurmeet: Did you try to run your code? You should learn how, so you may trouble shoot it when it doesn't do what you want it to. When I ran it, it stopped, showed the error message "ExpectedL BASE", and highlighted the 2 in the line, option 2: The problem here is that a label must be conti...

Michael Cakins' one liner really did the trick! When I added one line at the beginning, and one at the end, it showed the answer as 3437, the correct value. I = 27917 i = CVI(RIGHT$(MKI$(i), 1) + LEFT$(MKI$(i), 1)) PRINT i TmEE's code, when I added the line at the beginning, theinteger%=27917 and, a...

When you use a SUB (consider it as a sub-program), the main program simply goes to the address of that SUB, the SUB executes its code, and, at END SUB, the program simply returns to the next line from where it took off for the SUB. So, if you execute one or more SUBS, and want to end up someplace di...