Pete's QBASIC Site

Heck, in high school I was literally the best Quick Basic programmer. And now, I'm using it more than ever due to my future goal, running a lazertag center. Yes, I made custom hardware with an 8052-based microcontroller that people think is old, and meant to be abandoned but electronic shops today S...

For me to make my assembly code work fast with Qbasic code in a test-like environment without involving disk access, this is what I do. 1. I setup my environment. A Linux box with KDE and QuickBasic 4.0 running in DOSBOX 2. I use a linux text editor (its called kate) to create my code, and nasm asse...

I have confirmed this on two instances that an incorrect value is returned each time in both Qbasic 1.1 and QuickBasic 4.0. The code is this: DIM SHARED v as STRING * 100 PRINT LEN(want$) 'Prints 100 instead of 3!!! FUNCTION want$ v$="123" want$=v$ END FUNCTION To make this bug happen, the...

OK, I think I fixed it. for my calls to the XMS code I needed to add the FAR keyword in asm. This is my new assembly code that works: segment code ;XMS ACCESS ;Call absolute(codeseg+ptr,dataseg+ptr,codeseg+ptr) ;Type xms... ;int: func ;int: install check ;int: xms ver ;dint: xmsaddr main: PUSH BP MO...

I followed the guide on QB chronicles to allow me to access the XMS routines, and I am still stuck. I don't know if its all because DOSBOX 0.74 is playing with XMS routines or not. This is what I read: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/zines/chronicles/1-xms.html So I then created assemb...

Ok, so I finally figured out a way to get a little web server running in Qbasic without relying on "CALL interrupt" or "CALL interruptx". See attached ZIP I ended up making my own assembly routines. some function calls might not work yet as it is a work in progress but the main o...

Right now I'm trying to reinvent the TCP/IP initialization routine (tcpinit()) from: http://rubbermallet.org/software/webserv.html because I ran his software as a server and there have been lockups. He mentioned he would offer a new release on his site but never did. what he did was use "call i...

I was fiddling around with webserv.bas from http://rubbermallet.org/software/webserv.html and am still doing so especially now that it breaks down after each HTTP request. I could partly blame some web browsers because they like to do prefetching. So now I want to make the software even faster by re...

I almost lost it because I spent a few hours trying to understand why a simple piece of assembly code would not work and it turned out after further examination that it wasn't formatted correctly for QB. I want to know of a simple way to import assembly code into my QB program. Because my only dos i...

Here's your answer with source codes:

http://rubbermallet.org/software.html

That makes a delay of 0.1 seconds (1/10th) of a second. Adjust the number to suit your fancy.

you could try CTRL+C but then its like CTRL+BREAK but you'd lose status. In a Qbasic program you need to modify your endless loop from: Do **insert whatever Loop To: Do **insert whatever if inkey$="X" then reset system end if **insert whatever Loop but replace "X" with the actual...

the beyondlogic.org used to host information about the PC parallel ports but they have since changed their whole site around. Luckly I found a copy of such a resource on the net still. Have a look: http://wearcam.org/seatsale/programs/www.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm Parallel port has 3 modes of...

From a general QB programming standpoint, volume is always fixed and sounds using qbasic commands only will go through the PC speaker. Now if you want to get crazy with hardware, feel free to open your computer, and add a resistor (electronic part) in series with the speaker so that it can be quiter...

Well if the poster returns, what I suggest is to download Qbasic from the internet and put it in its own folder then download DosBox. then run DosBox and run Qbasic from within it.

I'm guessing you want to set the path of a new exe file you're compiling with Quickbasic. In that case, you would have to specify the entire filename in the prompt that appears when it asks you for the filename, not just the filename itself. Example: c:\path\to\new.exe Not: new.exe But if you want t...

I was thinking more endian on byte-level not bit level.

For example,

Converting &H0000FE to &HFE0000 programmatically with simple commands, not multiple for-next loops going through each ascii character.

Perhaps I should learn more 8086 assembly and use call absolute more.

Not only does it contain Qbasic, but its all setup as a boot image as well. See: https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/dos.html And looking at the contents listing at: https://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_contents/dos.html I find that if you download DOS 5.0 or higher, you'll get QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC....

I was just browsing a few posts here and some contained direct links to image files stored on photobucket.com but when I looked at them, the images were extremely blurry and have the grey photobucket logo stamped on them. Its too bad there isn't a better service to share real images out there withou...

This guy has some pretty good software you can use to interface with DOS TCP/IP and Quick Basic. All that's needed to be loaded is the network packet drivers and Trumpet TCP ntcpdrv.exe then this web server is a beauty to serve single-pages. Heck, if you know enough programming, you can tweak it to ...