| Message Title | Author and Date |
| ***GET OFF THE FORUM! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SKIING!!!!!! |
on Jul 5 |
| *LOL, I'm back already. It was good. |
on Jul 5 |
| QB64 V0.84 Released! (*URL) |
on Jul 4 |
| Please change name to WB64 or adjust logo, accordingly... |
on Jul 5 |
| *These robot bees don't buzz, hence he is a Quiet Bee (64 years old). |
on Jul 5 |
| So you're stating that QB64 is nothing to buzz about??? |
on Jul 5 |
| * Aren't "Queen" bees gay or sumtin? |
on Jul 5 |
| Opening Notepad in a shell creates screen defects or freezes QB |
on Jul 4 |
| * Remove the START from the command | qbguy on Jul 4 |
| Notepad doesn't require START or CMD /C but START gets it to terminate... |
on Jul 4 |
| Thanks. This worked without Screen 9 |
on Jul 4 |
| Just another day in this Goth-am City... or as the Caped Crusader would put it... | SCREEN ZERO HERO on Jul 4 |
| *What was that command to check the colors of pixels in graphics mode? thanks | qbasic forgetter on Jul 3 |
| * clr% = POINT (x, y) |
on Jul 3 |
| FLEXPORT GAGE INTERFACE DATA ACQUISITION PROGRAM - REVISITED | C. Bey on Jul 3 |
| * This was also posted elsewhere............my ears hurt. |
on Jul 3 |
| QuickBASIC For Mac | Nightmare on Jul 2 |
| it's destined for system 6.X.X or lower. |
on Jul 2 |
| * Will QuickBasic for Mac work with System 7.1? | Solitaire on Jul 2 |
| 7.1 should work yes... |
on Jul 2 |
| ... | Nightmare on Jul 3 |
| * Technically they're DOS versions not Windows versions | qbguy on Jul 3 |
| Here's a link "QBasic for Mac" | Nightmare on Jul 3 |
| * Looks like garbage to me! Did you try it? |
on Jul 3 |
| You can't use wget to download it | qbguy on Jul 3 |
| There's not much point in downloading it unless you actually have a Mac, though. | qbguy on Jul 3 |
| * Really? Wow you ARE a genius! |
on Jul 3 |
| How can I transfer this file to my Mac? | Solitaire on Jul 3 |
| There is a way to do that transfer to a mac.... |
on Jul 4 |
| * The link on PC to Mac broken |
on Jul 4 |
| New Dosbox version 0.73 can be used in Mac OS X. (link) |
on Jul 2 |
| Need some ideas | Ben on Jul 2 |
| * How many BASIC programmers here understand CS? | E. W. Dijkstra on Jul 2 |
| * About 42 | Anonymous on Jul 2 |
| By CS, do you mean C#? | Solitaire on Jul 4 |
| * I think he meant "computing science", which is what Dijkstra called computer science | qbguy on Jul 4 |
| Can I do this with VIEW and WINDOW? | Pharoah on Jul 1 |
| All you need to do is... |
on Jul 1 |
| *Thanks! VIEW is very useful :). | Pharoah on Jul 2 |
| *Unfortunately the new coordinates don't seem to apply to DRAW's "M" command | Pharoah on Jul 2 |
| Nope, doesn't work, however... |
on Jul 2 |
| Interpreter or Compiler? | Nightmare on Jul 1 |
| QBasic vs. QuickBasic | Solitaire on Jul 1 |
| Excel creates Semicolon Separated Variable files? |
on Jun 30 |
| Excel uses... | Antoni on Jun 30 |
| * Thanks Antoni. I figured it was something like that. He found a 2003 Excel that works. |
on Jun 30 |
| Out of curiosoty, is anyome programming anything in QB now and if so, what? |
on Jun 28 |
| Still working on my QB demonstrator............. |
on Jun 28 |
| I will be needing your QB demonstrator soon as possible to overthrow the government... |
on Jun 28 |
| I don't think that the internet will be the future for programming |
on Jun 28 |
| QB64 basically emulates an 8086 running DOS | Anonymous on Jun 29 |
| * P.S. Freebasic isn't that great either | .. on Jun 29 |
| * YOU are useless............ |
on Jun 29 |
| * Putting lots of periods for an elipsis instead of just 3 is useless... | Anonymous on Jun 29 |
| * Pete PLEASE change the no name entry back to "WANKER"! |
on Jun 29 |
| RE: QB64 basically emulates an 8086 running DOS... (Really?) |
on Jun 30 |
| * All I wanted was for Interrupt 21h to be added. |
on Jun 30 |
| Actually, yes you did | Anonymous on Jun 30 |
| RE: "A QBASIC-like language is USELESS without support for CALL INTERRUPT/ABSOLUTE" |
on Jun 30 |
| Re: Call Absolute | Ben on Jun 30 |
| RE: How far are you planning to go with the support for call absolute? (*URL) |
on Jul 1 |
| Projects in the last year... |
on Jun 28 |
| Another SCREEN 0 convert to the Church of Basictology. |
on Jun 28 |
| A check printing program, Reverend? ... |
on Jun 29 |
| You mean your program was just | Anonymous on Jun 29 |
| *New Balance is a footwear company |
on Jun 29 |
| * Really? Now I'm afraid to ask what 'End Balance" is. |
on Jun 29 |
| I do my banking online. Don't they have that in Canada? |
on Jun 29 |
| Online banking? What'll they think of next! ... |
on Jun 29 |
| Well I think you forgot something....... |
on Jun 29 |
| *Nothing -- I never get to Calgary anymore. |
on Jun 29 |
| * LOL nevermind |
on Jun 30 |
| * It's still on my 3.1 backup, somewhere. I believe it was around 30KB. |
on Jun 29 |
| Hmmm where is my 3.1 backup? Oh I forgot, my wife threw it away! |
on Jun 29 |
| *Mine's about 11KB, and half of that is ASCII decoration. |
on Jun 29 |
| I did a canadian accounting system once. .... |
on Jun 30 |
| You can't write serious programs in BASIC | E. W. Dijkstra on Jun 28 |
| * Oh go hang your NUTS on another fence! |
on Jun 28 |
| A student report comment generator |
on Jun 29 |
| Cool and useful! | Solitaire on Jun 29 |
| *You assume right! Assigning grades is never a perfect science. |
on Jun 30 |
| *Grades... 6,3,3,4,3/4,?... |
on Jun 30 |
| Recent QB activity not much to talk about. | Moneo on Jun 29 |
| Maybe we're having the same dream but.... |
on Jun 29 |
| What? Qute Babe isn't thought in school anymore? |
on Jun 29 |
| * That's OK, Clippy probably thinks Moneo gets his phone service through Taco Bell. |
on Jun 30 |
| I'm keeping myself busy with QB :)... |
on Jul 1 |
| QuickBasic or QBasic | Nightmare on Jun 23 |
| Ya got that backwards............. |
on Jun 23 |
| *Actually QBasic 1.0 came after QuickBasic 4.5 - but before QBX/PDS |
on Jun 24 |
| Microsoft is stupid... |
on Jun 26 |
| IF M$ is so stupid then none of us would be here.......... |
on Jun 26 |
| Skilled workers need not apply... |
on Jun 26 |
| *lol@Intel chocolate chips (do they also make potato chips?). |
on Jun 26 |
| Wait, how do you parse that sentence? | Grammar Police on Jun 26 |
| * What an eeF.................................... |
on Jun 26 |
| * WTF is an EEF? | Anonymous on Jun 26 |
| It's French for don't post WTF here anymore. |
on Jun 26 |
| * You must have been watching "Hardball" on MSNBC, lol |
on Jun 26 |
| *Another sign of the times: MILF Island on 30 Rock (very funny, though). |
on Jun 28 |
| *What's so funny about a Mother-in-Law with flatulence? |
on Jun 28 |
| *I don't know, I always thought it was a gas! |
on Jun 28 |
| Microsoft is stupid, but I do like M$ Word... |
on Jun 26 |
| * Do you mean the Damerau-Levenshtein distance (* URL) | qbguy on Jun 26 |
| *Yes, how could I forget? I knew the name was either Jones, Smith, or Damerau-Levenshtein. |
on Jun 26 |
| This is interisting | Anonymous on Jun 26 |
| Any tips for reducing the number of lines in a program? | Pharoah on Jun 23 |
| There's always the colon... |
on Jun 23 |
| *Oops! Just realized you were talking about FB -- not sure if colons work there. |
on Jun 23 |
| FB does nasty things to a lot of people's colons. |
on Jun 23 |
| * OMG! He actually answered a FB question? |
on Jun 23 |
| It is actually "an" FB question... |
on Jun 26 |
| Re: It is actually "an" FB question... |
on Jun 26 |
| OK, let's settle this with a quick quiz. FB should only be used with... |
on Jun 27 |
| WTF is an Akthough | Anonymous on Jun 27 |
| Weirdest posting problem I've seen yet with N54... |
on Jun 27 |
| I remember that day. |
on Jun 28 |
| * Yes, that was it! Lacking in SCREEN 0. No wonder I disliked it so much. |
on Jun 28 |
| * WHERE IS the documentation in QB Help for PCOPY in Screen 0 anyhow? |
on Jun 28 |
| Here | Anonymous on Jun 30 |
| Don't let ELSEs go to waste! |
on Jun 23 |
| FreeBASIC does have ON GOTO and ON GOSUB | qbguy on Jun 24 |
| Actually... |
on Jun 24 |
| Write an interpreter? |
on Jun 29 |
| big problem | student on Jun 20 |
| * It all depends on your skill level and what interests you. | Solitaire on Jun 20 |