| Message Title | Author and Date |
| The astric* | MissouriBoi on Mar 19 |
| * is a string or denotes multplication. Use quotation marks: CASE "*" |
on Mar 19 |
| Case Mismatch error | Missouriboi on Mar 19 |
| Type Mismatch Error ** (That's what I meant to type) Thanks for your help too. | Missouriboi on Mar 19 |
| Problem solved. Forgot to make it a string$ variable. | MissouriBoi on Mar 19 |
| My QBasic Experience... What Do YOU Think of Basic Programming Today? |
on Mar 19 |
| * Methinks you think too highly of yourself! I AM the celebrity here! |
on Mar 19 |
| I think musing about such things is a waste of time unless you know what's out there |
on Mar 20 |
| * Almost all Linux systems come with gcc, Perl, and Python | qbguy on Mar 20 |
| *And Windows still comes with Debug |
on Mar 27 |
| Re: My QBasic Experience... What Do YOU Think of Basic Programming Today? | g on Mar 20 |
| * Next you'll want one to write the code FOR you............... |
on Mar 20 |
| Check out the QB64 sub-forum in the Index page or click on... |
on Mar 21 |
| * What INDEX page? Don't you mean the "SubForums and Chat" Link |
on Mar 21 |
| It has 'Index' in the URL | qbguy on Mar 21 |
| Yeah and it also goes by various other names in areas........ |
on Mar 21 |
| * Try freebasic <= very good compiler | Ben on Mar 20 |
| Reminder --- This site will be down to move servers from 4pm - 12am Pacific Coast time. |
on Mar 19 |
| Well of course -- they use GNU/Linux with Apache | $teve Ballmer on Mar 19 |
| * No operating system can make up for N54's incompetence | qbguy on Mar 19 |
| * Let us bow our heads and PRAY they find a bigger garage! |
on Mar 19 |
| Part of QBASIC source found on Internet | Anonymous on Mar 18 |
| Re: Part of QBASIC source found on Internet | * link is rot13ed on Mar 18 |
| * ROT 13 on this! |
on Mar 18 |
| Re: Part of QBASIC source found on Internet |
on Mar 18 |
| * Crapola as expected from ghosts |
on Mar 18 |
| The link works for me... |
on Mar 18 |
| * Yeah, you mess with M$ and you lose anyhow. That is theft! |
on Mar 18 |
| *Hey, how many programs and info have you stolen. lol | roy on Mar 19 |
| * That's for you to find out London boy Roy! |
on Mar 19 |
| The QB64 implementation of RND was taken from here | qbguy on Mar 19 |
| * That did come in handy for Galleon |
on Mar 19 |
| How to set palette in screen 9?!!? | Ben on Mar 17 |
| What the hell? | Ben on Mar 17 |
| Some explanation... |
on Mar 17 |
| * The Palette i, i statement reassigned the attributes to normal colors 0 - 15 |
on Mar 17 |
| * I see, thanks. | Ben on Mar 18 |
| Obama QBasic program to help the United States FED resolve the economic recession. >>> |
on Mar 16 |
| Ahhhhh, that will take my pension dollars. Ranks a rot! |
on Mar 16 |
| It's all smoke and mirrors at the white house |
on Mar 17 |
| * My role is certainly not to be tricked down on! I RUST! |
on Mar 18 |
| All right | qbguy on Mar 18 |
| That takes me back 30 years... |
on Mar 18 |
| Sorry, there already was a formula for amortization |
on Mar 18 |
| That should be "paid." | qbguy on Mar 18 |
| *What bullets? I don't see any. I just copied it from a site as a picture. |
on Mar 18 |
| The ones before you you have | qbguy on Mar 18 |
| * Blame it on ARGH Group or N54. At least I could post it! |
on Mar 18 |
| Cool Clippy, where were you 30 years ago? |
on Mar 18 |
| Coincidentally, 30 years ago I bought my first house |
on Mar 18 |
| A search of Wikipedia revealed this (* URL) | qbguy on Mar 18 |
| I didn't look at the article, but the rule of 78 was used to calculate... |
on Mar 18 |
| * Sounds about right. 78 on loans and 72 on deposits, lol. |
on Mar 18 |
| *Don't feel too bad -- the Canadian dollar is only about $.78 American. |
on Mar 16 |
| * I'd move up there but I hear all the women are in Manitoba! |
on Mar 17 |
| *lol |
on Mar 17 |
| game help | mike on Mar 15 |
| *No, but I can refer you to our Homework link above so you can get help with building one. | Pete on Mar 15 |
| Re: *No, but I can refer you to our Homework link above so you can get help with building one. | mike on Mar 15 |
| * The link above entitled: Homework Help? Click Here Before Posting |
on Mar 15 |
| LOL, I hope you are kidding. We all have ankle "link" bracelets on! |
on Mar 15 |
| QB PLAY macro decoder |
on Mar 15 |
| * too bad galleon didn't have this when he was implementing PLAY in QB64 | qbguy on Mar 15 |
| Is that which you coded anything similar to this? URL:* |
on Mar 15 |
| * I don't think so..? |
on Mar 15 |
| i need help | drew on Mar 15 |
| If you are new to the forum, drew, see the homework link and post back. |
on Mar 15 |
| Tell us more... |
on Mar 15 |
| Well, first you need a deck of 52 cards. Then................. |
on Mar 15 |
| *tace, non iuvas |
on Mar 15 |
| Any chance of a QB LXIV port? | aoeu on Mar 15 |
| help | drew on Mar 16 |
| Here is an idea... |
on Mar 16 |
| To tell if an ace should be a one or an eleven when totalling | qbguy on Mar 16 |
| To tell if ace should be 1 or 11 when making total | qbguy on Mar 16 |
| To shuffle the array | qbguy on Mar 16 |
| POST your attempted code! Or do you sleep in class? |
on Mar 16 |
| Code for drew's program | Solitaire on Mar 17 |
| * That's not very nice :( Maybe he just needs help getting started. | Ben on Mar 17 |
| Help! I had 17 and input 5. Now I'm stuck in an endless loop. | Pete on Mar 17 |
| * It's not an endless loop -- just keep adding numbers until it overflows | qbguy on Mar 17 |
| Here's my code | drew on Mar 17 |
| * LOL, drew is LONG GONE! |
on Mar 17 |
| * That wasn't me, Pete. | Ben on Mar 17 |
| I thought it might not be but I love the running gag... |
on Mar 17 |
| * Try accusing QBG............. |
on Mar 17 |
| Yep, he was next on my list. |
on Mar 17 |
| * Sorry, no. | qbguy on Mar 17 |
| * What do you mean by sorry? |
on Mar 17 |
| Attention All Personnel... |
on Mar 15 |
| * Second "Go Back" link added to navigate back from the 3D Forum. Thanks, Clippy. | Pete on Mar 15 |
| * No problem, but I think you are seriously jeapordizing Bob's sex life :) |
on Mar 15 |
| * As long as he runs his programs in protected mode, who am I to judge? |
on Mar 15 |
| Let's keep the VB forum going a while longer. | Solitaire on Mar 15 |
| Will do... |
on Mar 15 |
| How to draw a spiral ? | Lisztfr on Mar 14 |
| Spiral | Ben on Mar 14 |
| Looks very good ! | Lisztfr on Mar 14 |
| Maybe this. | Ben on Mar 14 |
| *That's great, Ben! Simple, too ;-) |
on Mar 14 |
| Not sure if this is what you meant... |
on Mar 14 |
| * Show them some REAL smoke Bob. Not 6 year old stuff! |
on Mar 15 |
| I'd be glad to, if lisztfr is interested... |
on Mar 16 |
| Smoke | Ben on Mar 16 |
| I'd be interested in seeing such an algorithm, myself... |
on Mar 16 |
| That is pretty nice thebob | Ben on Mar 16 |
| Very nice... |
on Mar 16 |
| An idea... |
on Mar 16 |
| That looks great... |
on Mar 16 |
| No offense, it looks like time-lapse photography of mold growing on my monitor. SOLUTION> |
on Mar 16 |
| * What is that, a penguin? Is TileX some sort of Linux distribution? | qbguy on Mar 16 |
| TileX is a product similar to simple roy... |
on Mar 16 |
| Speaking of Simple Roy............ |
on Mar 16 |
| Well... |
on Mar 16 |
| * I did that stuff with the union! It will NEVER work! PAC's do. |
on Mar 16 |
| Ascii art picture of Tux (the Linux penguin logo) [* URL] | qbguy on Mar 16 |
| * Looks kinda fat. Must not do much. :P |
on Mar 19 |
| Linus Torvalds quote | qbguy on Mar 19 |
| smoke.bas | Ben on Mar 17 |
| You definitely captured the "cigarette smoke" swirl effect... |
on Mar 17 |
| bravo |
on Mar 21 |
| * Translation: SUPER! Did it take long to code? I add to my tutorial. |
on Mar 21 |
| Not what google gave me. | Ben on Mar 21 |
| Not too complicated, and foremost in screen 2 | Lisztfr on Mar 16 |
| *lol - I think you better stick with the spiral idea. |
on Mar 16 |
| I just remember i had an amazing sky demo .BAS | Lisztfr on Mar 16 |
| *lol - well, it's a great header, but the program seems to be lacking something. |
on Mar 16 |
| * Copied from IDE? Try using Notepad to copy it. |
on Mar 16 |
| Rainstorm, URL* | Lisztfr on Mar 17 |
| I moved it to the Graphics Forum... |
on Mar 17 |
| Probably you should have 3.14159265459 | qbguy on Mar 15 |
| Question about QBasic to Unicode in a SHELL to Notepad... |
on Mar 13 |
| Use temp file |
on Mar 13 |
| Thanks Don but that won't work in my system... |
on Mar 13 |
| It should work... |
on Mar 13 |
| * Don't work on mine neither! |
on Mar 13 |
| * He has it in the 'Terminal' font which is CP437. | qbguy on Mar 13 |
| Getting old sucks, I wouldn't recommend it.. |
on Mar 13 |
| ALT+??? works for me in notepad, I have the "Courier" font selected |
on Mar 14 |
| Thanks but don't bother on my account, Galleon... |
on Mar 15 |
| What is UT-8? |
on Mar 13 |
| Now that one works in at least some fonts... |
on Mar 13 |
| Suggest Metapad |
on Mar 13 |
| I'll stick with the more universal software... |
on Mar 13 |
| Metapad won't work with UTF-8.... | Antoni on Mar 14 |
| Need help in math/QBasic. URL* | Ben on Mar 12 |
| * Nooo!!! | Ben on Mar 12 |
| Don't worry, it will be seen and responded to in there... |
on Mar 12 |
| It is going to be another empty pointless forum | Ben on Mar 12 |
| *Nevermind |
on Mar 12 |
| * :-( | Ben on Mar 12 |
| *Nevermind |
on Mar 12 |
| * And last I looked, it already received a member response. |
on Mar 13 |
| Yeah? How can you tell until you actually look in there? |
on Mar 13 |
| Actually, Pete... |
on Mar 12 |
| Yes Bob, it is kind of pointless to have a forum hidden in a forum. |
on Mar 12 |
| It's just inconvinient | Ben on Mar 13 |
| *Nevermind |
on Mar 13 |
| What ignorance? | Ben on Mar 13 |
| Don't star out words, that's not helping... |
on Mar 13 |
| I may fan the flames, | Ben on Mar 13 |
| Yeah but the thing is Ted, you get to be the adult here... |
on Mar 13 |
| *Nevermind |
on Mar 13 |
| Here are your false accusations again.. | Ben on Mar 13 |
| I agree with the inconvinient part... |
on Mar 13 |
| What I would be willing to do is archive the Pascal Forum and put the 3-D Forum... |
on Mar 13 |
| Is Myst still alive? I could have moved a city by now! |
on Mar 13 |
| reply to artelius in 3d forum URL | Ben on Mar 13 |
| QBASIC programs on 64-bit Linux | qbguy on Mar 12 |
| You need to ask this in the Linux Forum where our Linux Moderator can help you... |
on Mar 12 |
| No it does not run on Linux x86-64 | qbguy on Mar 13 |
| Maybe this will help? (*URL) |
on Mar 14 |
| * Just HACK IT silly or use Windows(LOL)! |
on Mar 12 |
| QB64 does not have ANY 64-bit version | qbguy on Mar 13 |
| URL to reply* |
on Mar 13 |
| I seriously doubt that Galleon will let you |
on Mar 13 |
| OK, but I still trust him enough to give him a shell account on my computer | qbguy on Mar 13 |
| * Sorry, I was still in shock about QB64 not running on 64 machines............ |
on Mar 13 |
| first steps in 3D images | Lisztfr on Mar 12 |
| Would POINT/PSET not be slow on the 7Mhz proc? | Ben on Mar 12 |
| Yes it is slow | Lisztfr on Mar 13 |
| Sorry i wrote B.S | Lisztfr on Mar 13 |