| Message Title | Author and Date |
| Challenge | qbguy on Apr 1 |
| Must I optimize everything you do? | Pete on Apr 1 |
| *Brain [teaser] is good fun :) Yeah, Pete edited out an optimized word for teaser. | Pharoah on Apr 2 |
| *...which also happens to be the actual name of an esoteric programming langauge. | Pharoah on Apr 3 |
| What is the QB Library name that holds the InterruptX procedure? |
on Apr 1 |
| * QB.lib | Pete on Apr 1 |
| * QBX.lib in QB 7.1 | qbguy on Apr 1 |
| Lost in Cyberspace... and the question is... |
on Mar 31 |
| * Did you try looking on Uranus captain? |
on Mar 31 |
| * Silly Vulcan, Klingons are on Uranus. |
on Mar 31 |
| * You're right Captain! Even in the mysik shadows there! |
on Mar 31 |
| Program |
on Mar 31 |
| To do it right is about 85 lines of code. What do you need this for? |
on Mar 31 |
| *Yeah I wanna see how you automatically enter 2nd month digit. |
on Mar 31 |
| There is only a partial solution for that... |
on Mar 31 |
| * Which makes me wonder if DATE$ might be all he needs. |
on Mar 31 |
| *Maybe. Anyway I posted an example in that forum we use for that. | Pete on Mar 31 |
| * INPUT requires you to press the ENTER key! |
on Mar 31 |
| *I think he knows that and wants a way around it. I'll provide it when he replies. |
on Mar 31 |
| To mozna wykombinowac uzywajac INKEY$ |
on Mar 31 |
| * Oh great, a Warsaw Coder in Kangaroo Court. |
on Mar 31 |
| I thought it was Czech |
on Mar 31 |
| I didn't use the Polish-specific letters because this forum doesn't support Unicode |
on Apr 1 |
| April first is over so.................................. | Clippy on Apr 1 |
| Computer | qbguy on Mar 31 |
| * WHY do you continue to do that? Pete was gonna do that! |
on Mar 31 |
| Honestly? I think he does it to get a rise out of you! ;) |
on Mar 31 |
| Simplified version by Pete (*URL) | qbguy on Mar 31 |
| * P.S. Linux | qbguy on Mar 31 |
| * B.S. Linus! |
on Mar 31 |
| * X.D Edsger W. Dijkstra! | qbguy on Apr 1 |
| * LOL (And they used to think I was the A.I. around here.) |
on Mar 31 |
| * Sure, blame me! I'm gonna GIT that thar wascal! :-) |
on Mar 31 |
| But on a side note.. When the hell do they wake up in Poland? |
on Mar 31 |
| * try freebasic | Ben on Mar 31 |
| No Way Baby |
on Mar 31 |
| Same here, I'd rather hit my head with a hammer. |
on Mar 31 |
| Freebasic is good | Ben on Mar 31 |
| Yeah, FreeBasic Rules... | Pete on Apr 1 |
| They wake up the SAME time! Except they are on OTHER side of world. |
on Mar 31 |
| Program |
on Apr 2 |
| * Use SUB procedures. They only use memory when run. |
on Apr 2 |
| It's a bit late | David on Apr 7 |
| Re: It's a bit late |
on Apr 8 |
| Kris returned. 2 routines you can use... |
on Apr 8 |
| OH, let us all rejoice that the Slacker has returned. |
on Apr 8 |
| You have him confused with the other non-English speaking poster. |
on Apr 8 |
| * Am I? His email is the same! hkp@hkp.pl.pl <hkp@hkp.pl.pl> |
on Apr 8 |
| My apology, he is the same poster :( |
on Apr 8 |
| Is this forum copyrighted? | drew on Mar 28 |
| Legal, probably, but ethical... |
on Mar 29 |
| ALL content is Copyrighted! N54's Rights to posted content................... |
on Mar 29 |
| Not legal or ethical... |
on Mar 29 |
| I hereby release all my postings of over seven years of age to the public domain | Iain on Apr 2 |
| * According to your post, you just turned 14? |
on Apr 2 |
| Depends on what you're doing. |
on Mar 29 |
| He suggested that he was gonna TAKE our Forum data somewhere ELSE! |
on Mar 29 |
| It doesn't need to have anything in the TOS about qoutes... |
on Mar 29 |
| The TOS was to protect N54 from copyright issues. |
on Mar 29 |
| Even your stupid ideas about this are copyrighted! |
on Mar 29 |
| Sorry, but no. |
on Mar 30 |
| Favors the public? | qbguy on Mar 30 |
| Berne Convention does not apply to internet, see WIPO instead |
on Mar 30 |
| * Don't worry! Yours are safe here, lol.......... |
on Mar 30 |
| That sounds right | qbguy on Mar 30 |
| *Come on Clippy, please try to argue the topic and not pic on the poster. |
on Mar 30 |
| But London... most taggers don'r pack that much spray paint... |
on Mar 30 |
| *Doesn't Tommy Tutone have that copyright? |
on Mar 30 |
| * London, I've got your number ;) |
on Mar 30 |
| * lol wow, thanks guys | drew on Mar 30 |
| Just what did you have in mind anways? |
on Mar 30 |
| * Drew? He just needed ONE person to say "go ahead", lol |
on Mar 30 |
| *lol how do you know me that well? | drew on Apr 3 |
| drew recently suggested that we change hosts and write our own forum software |
on Mar 30 |
| *Ahhh, then the others are right. My notions of referencing would not apply here. |
on Mar 30 |
| * Ahhhhhh! You finally got it....................... |
on Mar 30 |
| * I recently bought a domain and was trying out forum conversion with PHP and SQL | drew on Apr 3 |
| *Feel free to quote any of my posts in whole or in part, as long as reference is given. |
on Apr 9 |
| Untitled | Enviroment variables on Mar 27 |
| Batch file to read Windows settings with SET |
on Mar 27 |
| Environment variables are ancient, and they still work |
on Mar 27 |
| ENVIRON$ works better on NT (XP) machines |
on Mar 27 |
| Re: Environment variables are ancient, and they still work |
on Mar 27 |
| * According to QB Help, all changes to the table are reset upon END. |
on Mar 27 |
| A little late but... | Sai on Mar 26 |
| Never to late to read a thank you... |
on Mar 26 |
| Sorting out Sorting! | qbguy on Mar 24 |
| Parts 3 and 4 | qbguy on Mar 24 |
| *Oh man, that music is burning my brain |
on Mar 25 |
| Qbasic cannot run compressed QB4.5 code. |
on Mar 24 |
| Always use QB Fast LOAD and SAVE to save your files! |
on Mar 25 |
| Vista and Qbasic? | Navist on Mar 23 |
| *Face it.........Vista sucks! Go back to XP32 or wait for Windows 7 |
on Mar 23 |
| *Forget Windows 7. It uses the same Vista engine and won't be any more compatible with QB | Solitaire on Mar 23 |
| Your right! At this time, your ONLY decent alternative is FB! :( |
on Mar 23 |
| The first "Your" should be "You're." | Punctuation Police on Mar 24 |
| * Sorry Teach! |
on Mar 24 |
| Speaking of grammar | Blondie on Mar 25 |
| * |
on Mar 25 |
| Make sure you have the latest version of DOSBOX |
on Mar 23 |
| i can run qbasic in vista |
on Mar 25 |
| *Any 16-32 bit M$ OS will natively run QB, but 64-bit computers and 64-bit OS's won't. |
on Mar 25 |
| LOL @ potentially dangerous! Gates would call it DEADLY. |
on Mar 25 |
| mike: Can you run QB in full screen in Vista? | Solitaire on Mar 26 |
| It's not a secret, you just change the video driver. (use an XP driver.) |
on Mar 26 |
| Whenever I use a Windows computer, it usually gets a fast boot to the main screen. | qbguy on Mar 27 |
| no i cannot... |
on Mar 26 |
| If you are having problems running full screen modes on 32 |
on Mar 26 |
| Old QB prog needs code change |
on Mar 23 |
| * Decompilers don't exist, sorry | Tim on Mar 23 |
| Re: * Decompilers don't exist, sorry | DonaldG on Mar 23 |
| Those darn dongles are hard to find theses days....... |
on Mar 23 |
| Options | qbguy on Mar 23 |
| Perhaps IDA Pro will help |
on Mar 23 |
| * Oh well, he probably left when Clippy said there were no QBASIC decompilers | qbguy on Mar 23 |
| *I'm not convinced that was Clippy |
on Mar 23 |
| * WHAT part of TIM don't you understand? Blame QBguy! |
on Mar 23 |
| * OK, Sorry. | qbguy on Mar 23 |
| IDA Pro info | DonaldG on Mar 24 |
| Which begs me to ask, what was the "dongle" connected to? |
on Mar 24 |
| * He actually did that in his original post | qbguy on Mar 24 |
| I know where my "Dongle" is connected! But I need something to connect to. |
on Mar 24 |
| dongle needs |
on Mar 27 |
| You can fake the dongle being there but........... |
on Mar 27 |
| It is NOT THEFT |
on Mar 27 |
| It is NOT THEFT part 2 |
on Mar 27 |
| OK, I get it. You can use VB6 to read the dongle values |
on Mar 27 |
| * nevermind |
on Mar 27 |
| GO AWAY |
on Mar 27 |
| *Nobody has asked anyone to REWRITE the program |
on Mar 27 |
| Progress report |
on Mar 25 |
| A few more comments |
on Mar 27 |
| * Maybe it's just me, but I'd avoid anything named "dongle." Good luck with it. |
on Mar 27 |
| Avoiding the dongles |
on Mar 27 |
| other possibilities |
on Mar 27 |
| Is it possible to use a USB adapter cable or device that has external legacy ports? | Solitaire on Mar 28 |
| Interesting idea | DonaldG on Mar 28 |
| Please post results at the top of the forum if you do obtain such a device. | Solitaire on Mar 29 |
| URL number? | qbguy on Mar 29 |
| How does your cable work Solitaire? |
on Mar 29 |
| I never actually got around to using it. | Solitaire on Mar 29 |
| Thank you |
on Mar 27 |
| Progress report from OP | DonaldG on Apr 1 |
| * To access ports on XP or NT with 98 programs, you need PortTalk. |
on Apr 4 |
| Presto. Watch me make QBasic disappear! |
on Mar 22 |
| Re: qbasic disappear | qbguy on Mar 22 |
| Thanks for testing it out. I always wanted a QB solution to lock files but... |
on Mar 22 |
| How DO you change the icon? |
on Mar 22 |
| XP has a customize tab under properties... |
on Mar 22 |
| *I'm not using XP so it won't work for me |
on Mar 22 |
| *Can't afford good stuff? Try the new Simulated Human Intelligent Technology from Windows. |
on Mar 22 |
| *Yeah, that stuff's the ---- |
on Mar 22 |
| * Kirk was not an actor, but Bill Shatner is captain. |
on Mar 22 |
| Another approach --- Backup Qbasic folder | Moneo on Mar 23 |
| Why not just ZIP the folder and HIDE it? |
on Mar 23 |
| Re: Why not just ZIP the folder and HIDE it? | Moneo on Mar 23 |
| Fastest way to emulate REDIM PRESERVE | Qlink on Mar 20 |
| * Make the array large enough in the first place. |
on Mar 20 |
| Re: * Make the array large enough in the first place. | *Obviously that is not an option on Mar 20 |
| *Dammit, I always do that :( | Qlink on Mar 20 |
| * Rewrite your program in C and use malloc and realloc | qbguy on Mar 20 |
| *...I'd rather write it in Python, but I'm restricted to QB for this one | Qlink on Mar 20 |
| * Using a random access file would work | qbguy on Mar 20 |
| *That's not a bad idea, they're cached in memory anyway, I think. | Qlink on Mar 20 |
| *Darn it you always come up with the EASY way QBG! |
on Mar 20 |
| I've cludged this together, it suits my purpose pretty well: | Qlink on Mar 20 |
| Dynamic arrays |
on Mar 20 |
| A difficult question: DOS emulators and a QB program | Michael on Mar 20 |
| * PAGE NOT FOUND error to link supplied! New URL to v8 |
on Mar 20 |
| The OPEN line you refer to is for Output. |
on Mar 20 |
| Thanks! Problem solved! | Michael on Mar 20 |
| Looping |
on Mar 19 |
| * Just place the PRINT # or WRITE # in a FOR i = 1 TO 20 loop |
on Mar 19 |