GODboy Junior Member Posts: 2 From: Here, Ontario, Canada Registered: 12-03-2003 |
Any QBasic techies around here? Alex~ ------------------ |
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
*FLASHBACKS* --D-SIPL ------------------ |
Miami Brice Member Posts: 41 From: Baltimore, MD Registered: 04-19-2004 |
I just dug some QBASIC code out the other day for a maze generator. It was a nice trip down memory lane. |
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
That does indeed brimg back fond memories of hacking Gorrilla and Nibbles  .------------------ Switch Mayhem now available! Get it here |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
wow... loooooonnnnnngggg time ago. ------------------ |
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LeoWong Member Posts: 100 From: Registered: 02-27-2004 |
Sometime during the last century I was asked to look at a Foxpro program that was breaking. The original program was in Foxbase, ran overnight on an 8088, and was considered a great success. The change to Foxpro brought the time down to 4 hours. But now the program was crashing, and the original programmer was unavailable. Not knowing any Foxpro, and not wishing to learn it, I re-engineered the thing in QuickBASIC, which if I'm not mistaken, is a QBasic that compiles executables. It ran in under a minute. On today's machines it completes much faster than my Java programs load. Leo Wong |
AmazingJas Member Posts: 437 From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA Registered: 04-03-2003 |
Even worse...I'm thinking of doing some old C64 coding.... |
Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
go for it.. c64 coding was da bomb, with the 6502 4not having a multiplication intruction, it was definately barebones.. but what an amazing machine. I wish commodore could have survived, it would be amazing what their current machine would be like. but finally the whole purpose of technological advance has been reached. you can get a commodore 64 emulator for pocket PC, so now you can have a pocket C64 ------------------ |
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ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
what the heck.. Cobol, no...ForTran, no..Assembly!!! eh, no. ------------------ |
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AmazingJas Member Posts: 437 From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA Registered: 04-03-2003 |
quote: I used to code C64 basic and used some interupt driven graphics machine code routines for extra speed, but I was recently given a C64 compiler which seems to work a treat! Also, Tulip, the owners of the Commodore license have announced they are releasing an all-in-one console (basically a joysick that plugs straight into the TV) which will include 30 famous C64 games built in. Mostly EPYX titles I believe. [This message has been edited by AmazingJas (edited May 10, 2004).] |
AlexB Junior Member Posts: 3 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: 05-08-2004 |
PS - Im GODboy.....forgot my password....meh WEll......anyways...now that i got everyone on QBasic, you should check out www.bad-logic.com , where you can find the BEST Qbasic (4.5> ) library UGL:. ....hi res, millions of colours.....if you want Qb4.5 or 7.1 (winrared) e-mail me at oz_atosoft @ yahoo.ca or alex@biotech-warfare.com (this ones buggy.....server error i think.....i dunno..im server admin and haven't found anything) Alex~ ------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
Has anyone been a real geek and checked out KBasic on Linux  --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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Miami Brice Member Posts: 41 From: Baltimore, MD Registered: 04-19-2004 |
KBasic looks nice  One of my fave BASICs remains MS BASIC on the CoCo2, but BASIC on the TI-99 4/A was awesome if you have the expansion BASIC cartridge that was blistering fast. |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
Kbasic it sounds cool because it starts with the letter K, but the problem with it is it is still basic.. and it looks like visual basic for linux ------------------ |
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Miami Brice Member Posts: 41 From: Baltimore, MD Registered: 04-19-2004 |
I found this on an old CD backup (originally downloaded from Planet Source Code). It is a QB 2 VB converter. I have no idea how well it works, but the sourece is there to mess with. I will probably remove this in a couple of days so if you want it snage it while its still on my server: |
Oz Junior Member Posts: 4 From: Dutton, Ontario, Canada Registered: 12-05-2004 |
woohoo! Qbasic! ------------------ |
