Pete's QBASIC Site

I am now beginning to code my new DirectQB. There was a delay due to graphics card problems... At any rate, it's gonna have graphics reaching 1024x768 and true colors and mixable sound and pretty 3D stuff (Binary Space Partioning!) and so on and so forth. You get the idea. So as I said believe me or...

What does "grtz" mean (for the 5000th time!)?

A quick explanation o' masks... You can think of masks as holes you put down on an image that allow your sprite to fill them without messing up the background pixels or your sprites pixels. To make a mask you need to make a black cutout of your sprite and slap it on a box of white pixels that are th...

Which type of memory is faster: XMS or EMS?

Oh ok, thats cool! Well then ill change my question, Does anybody know any good -yadda,yadda,yadda...?

Does anybody know any good sites/books/ect... where I could learn about XMS memory?

With you there 100%!

What does "GRTZ" mean?!!!!!

Well this is sorta an odd question but does anybody know if NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 cards support VESA modes? I know that NVIDIA GeForce4 MX's do!

What the heck does "grtz" mean?

Well, my one computer(the one that has a gfx card) lists ten bazilloin different modes whereas the other computer lists 3 which dont work anyway. I then tried some of the 24 bit modes(not using your program) which returned the same results. Your program worked just fine, need not worry! Its just tha...

Works fine on my computer that HAS a graphics card. Turns out I need a new one!

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So than do you know how to get high resolution /w true colors without using VESA?

thats creepy!

I cant seem to get true color VESA modes to work on my computer(256 color modes do work)! The strange thing is though is that I got it 2 years ago. Does anybody know why?

As far as I know it works fine, except what is the "something"?

Ok, cause your too thick to figure it out on your own: The Library is one unified block of commands and though I say "seperated into sections" thats just for better organization. All of the commands are first being done in QB. After one "section" is finished it gets re-written in...

Im currently creating a new DirectQB, (IM ALREADY HALF WAY THROUGH AND I CERTAINLY DONT PLAN ON QUITTING!) Im looking for anybody who is interested in helping for that would really speed up the proccess! This one however will have full 3D support! (already have a "polyfill" routine for thi...

Other, I always get numbers wrong! Like when im accessing a file in binary mode, Ill skip one byte over or behind the destination I was aiming for!