Escaped from the FreeBasic country!
- Spotted Cheetah
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Escaped from the FreeBasic country!
Hello everyone around here, probably you know me already... The same Spotted Cheetah as everywhere else
Now as i had seen i got three and a half star for my web site at the Links section (Wow! Although i just used HTML!) i thought it good to finally end up here...
Not to mention that i got certainly highly awfully upset about what goes on with FreeBasic. I want to program real retro working on a 2.86, i want to tamper with the hardware, and i run everywhere in "no, no, no", and yet "no" again, and use FreeBasic instead of QB. AARRGGHHH! Got enough of that. If i want 32Bit i grab my Dev - C++, not Basic. If i want DOS and retro i switch back to the good old blue screen. But i not want to mess with days of code - conversion because i try to program in FreeBasic and C(++) the same time!
Just introduced myself for who did not knew... So at one side i am a real old retro programmer "madly in love" with the blue screen of QB and the other side a modern programmer who not really want to mix this two. Of course if anyone is interested my true love are Cheetahs - just to mention, you might have guessed from my user name.
Now as i had seen i got three and a half star for my web site at the Links section (Wow! Although i just used HTML!) i thought it good to finally end up here...
Not to mention that i got certainly highly awfully upset about what goes on with FreeBasic. I want to program real retro working on a 2.86, i want to tamper with the hardware, and i run everywhere in "no, no, no", and yet "no" again, and use FreeBasic instead of QB. AARRGGHHH! Got enough of that. If i want 32Bit i grab my Dev - C++, not Basic. If i want DOS and retro i switch back to the good old blue screen. But i not want to mess with days of code - conversion because i try to program in FreeBasic and C(++) the same time!
Just introduced myself for who did not knew... So at one side i am a real old retro programmer "madly in love" with the blue screen of QB and the other side a modern programmer who not really want to mix this two. Of course if anyone is interested my true love are Cheetahs - just to mention, you might have guessed from my user name.
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- ShadowWolf
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bla bla bal retro if i wanted 32bit i would use dev bla bla bla.
the argument is flawed basic is a language it not restricted like any programing lang to some platform.
people use basic because it's basic not because one version of basic was for 16bit system.
also 16bit isn't retro go start programing for a old 6502 and i will consider that retro.
the argument is flawed basic is a language it not restricted like any programing lang to some platform.
people use basic because it's basic not because one version of basic was for 16bit system.
also 16bit isn't retro go start programing for a old 6502 and i will consider that retro.
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I'd expect nothing else from an old timer like you . LOL
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Yeah... I remember spending hours over hours exactly 2 years ago learning QB on a old 133 mhz dell laptop... hmm... since my old one is broken, Ill fix that one, but anyway...
That blue screen was awsome... I still remember my first program, I was soooo proud... just a simple:
I made my whole family run it... and my mom was is the middle of making pasta sauce... ouch, that didn't help my laptop. So stay there, stay with ye olde english or move on 2 slang, yo!
And yes, that really was my first program... I wish I would have saved it...
And nope, no "Hello world!" for me.
That blue screen was awsome... I still remember my first program, I was soooo proud... just a simple:
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INPUT "What is your name", Name$
PRINT "Hello, "; Name$
And yes, that really was my first program... I wish I would have saved it...
And nope, no "Hello world!" for me.
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heh, that reminds me of my first programming. I was afraid to use the PRINT command, cause we were low on paper, so all text output was done through input statements. and I couldn't handle strings, so it was all
thestart:
INPUT "HELLO THIS IS A PROGRAM"; A%
INPUT "I don't know what will happen if I re-use a variable"; B%
input "Where do you want to go";C%
if C% = 1 then system
if C% = 2 then goto thestart
I for some reason I never (even in the beginning) used END to exit, allways SYSTEM...
matt
thestart:
INPUT "HELLO THIS IS A PROGRAM"; A%
INPUT "I don't know what will happen if I re-use a variable"; B%
input "Where do you want to go";C%
if C% = 1 then system
if C% = 2 then goto thestart
I for some reason I never (even in the beginning) used END to exit, allways SYSTEM...
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I remember thinking that too, but we had paper and I tryed it only to find it printed to the screen... lol.. And, the tutorial I was reading, I thought I had to do this to Begin a code:matt2jones wrote:heh, that reminds me of my first programming. I was afraid to use the PRINT command, cause we were low on paper, ...
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'----------- Begin Program ------------
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'---------- End Program --------------
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My first one was "Kicsi Kocsi" (Little Car)... Well, not really... But as i had no Network acces, nor any book, i started QB on my own. As i can remember my first ever made program was a number - guessing game (A random number for example between 1 and 100 and guess it basid on the hints "too large" or "too small". Of course that time in Hungarian).
For me Basic is for retro as i said. I use C for 32bit stuff and i do not want to screw up with code conversion (at least now) so i only use C for 32bit. I like old 16bit machines with all of their restictions and usual hardware so i like QB. FreeBasic not exists for me: if i want some nasty "Exception raised at..." C is there (Sadly i could not end up in a blue screen of death yet by just 32bit programming).
For me Basic is for retro as i said. I use C for 32bit stuff and i do not want to screw up with code conversion (at least now) so i only use C for 32bit. I like old 16bit machines with all of their restictions and usual hardware so i like QB. FreeBasic not exists for me: if i want some nasty "Exception raised at..." C is there (Sadly i could not end up in a blue screen of death yet by just 32bit programming).