Pete's QBASIC Site

I don't know if this stuff is of interest to anyone else, but just in case anyone's interested in how electronic compass calibration is performed, here's the current state of play at this end ... After studying around two dozen patents from the hundreds devoted to this topic it appears that there ar...

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_key "While both Ctrl+Break and Ctrl+C combination are commonly implemented as a way of breaking the execution of a console application, they are also used for similar effect in integrated development environments. Although these two are often considered ...

Thanks Ted - appreciated. Your 36_Q-Basics tutorial is impressive - looks like it contains just about everything I'll be needing. I've only one query: if you take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_circle it can be seen that 0 degrees is located at '3 o'clock' and the incremental direction...

Thanks for the replies - appreciated. I can call-up Help via F1 ok, but I personally find on-screen help difficult to work with, and I'd much rather have the same info in some form of hard-copy. Ted - your Command Tutorial is really good - think I'll print out the relevant page as I come across each...

Greetings to all. An introduction .... If you should do a Google for "DIY Fluxgate Compass" or similar, you'll find that there are NO viable DIY projects that are concerned with the construction of home-brew sensors themselves, or with the writing of the associated software. There are a hu...