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by Pete
Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:42 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

I definitely understand about preserving the QB forum since the forum at N54 has been around forever, but I guess I was just thinking of what might happen when there's another "Zip" that comes along and does something to ruin it. Ahh, gotcha. Well, if all the people on the N54 forum would...
by Pete
Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:22 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

By the way, I think #1 is the best option -- the QBasic Portal. To illustrate it better, here are examples of what I mean: The NEWS FEED consolidates RSS feeds from all the sites in the Qmunity (we could use Yahoo Pipes to do this very easily, or do it server-side). Each post references which site i...
by Pete
Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:07 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Well, if QBasic.com is ever going to get a good ranking on search engines again, you HAVE to get rid of those spam links. It would still be #1 otherwise. On a side note, I don't think that we should create a NEW forum at QBasic.com -- it should continue to link to the Network54 forum. The N54 forum ...
by Pete
Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:21 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Well, for me, the reason why this is important is because it's QBasic.com. If this was http://www.marksqbasicsite.com or http://www.qbasicmark.com or some other personal/undesirable domain name, it wouldn't matter. He could let it sit there idly and die for all I care. But we're talking about QBasic...
by Pete
Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:18 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Yeah, it's really a shame that Mark has the QBasic.com domain name. There are dozens of people who could have done better things with QBasic.com, and it just so happened that Mark lucked into registering it on the day it expired. It's not like Mark had any track record in the QB scene -- he was a 16...
by Pete
Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How QB Are You? quiz
Replies: 12
Views: 32082

How QB Are You? quiz

I found this on DarkDread's old website...

http://darkdreams.rpgdx.net/qb_quiz.html

Heheh. A lot of the questions are pretty outdated, and go back to QB sites that haven't been around for almost ten years. I still scored 33/40 though!
by Pete
Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:16 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Hmm, it seems that if you search for "qbasic" or "quickbasic," QBasic.com is no longer in the top search results. In fact, it's not even on the first page anymore.

I wonder if that's a search engine penalty for the spam links?
by Pete
Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:12 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Either that, or Mark added those links himself to generate some sort of advertising revenue. QBasic.com has a very high Google PageRank because of all the links pointing toward it, and gets a lot of traffic since it's been the #1 ranked site for "qbasic" for years. I remember Mark was maki...
by Pete
Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:12 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: QBASIC.COM gone?
Replies: 102
Views: 339016

Ugggh, it sure bothers me that such a great domain name is going to waste like that. Mark could have really done a great thing with QBasic.com, but he flaked out. The only worthwhile parts of it are Lachie's http://games.qbasic.com and the N54 forum...not because the layout is that great, but becaus...
by Pete
Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: In case you haven't seen it...QBasic Nerd music video
Replies: 5
Views: 12696

In case you haven't seen it...QBasic Nerd music video

Jack Thomson from the QBasic Station made this video a while ago, and it's pretty awesome. It's also gotten 78,000+ views (!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mal6XbN5cEg Lyrics are here: http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.php?c=i_qbnerd I think I'm going to put the lyrics in the next issue of QB Exp...
by Pete
Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:03 pm
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #30 needs submissions!
Replies: 12
Views: 61040

Stumbled across a funny quote:
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
by Pete
Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:47 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: chat v3 is released
Replies: 15
Views: 33558

Yeah, I'd like to figure out a way to use the PHPBB accounts here and link it to the old Perl CGI back-end that I'm using. That way, you wouldn't be able to submit stuff unless you're logged into PHPBB. The only problem is I need to figure out how to do that, and then find the time to do the work. :)
by Pete
Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:26 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: chat v3 is released
Replies: 15
Views: 33558

Thanks for the info! The backend system here works fine -- I could just turn it back on -- but I disabled user submissions because it got completely inundated by spam. It got to the point where there would be 500 spam posts for every 1 legit one, and the spambots would crash the site at least twice ...
by Pete
Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:24 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: chat v3 is released
Replies: 15
Views: 33558

Dang, I need to fix the upload system for this site. Everyone's putting all their programs on the QBasic Station. :)
by Pete
Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:22 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: Two Lords :: Official Release Of Episode I
Replies: 3
Views: 12977

Wow, I never thought this would come out! I think I first previewed it in like QB Express #2. :)

Downloading now.
by Pete
Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New blog: Pie Heaven
Replies: 5
Views: 15393

In case anyone's interested, I still keep Pie Heaven updated every day.

Check it out for the best in viral videos!

http://www.pieheaven.net

And post comments on the ones you like. :)
by Pete
Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:24 pm
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #30 needs submissions!
Replies: 12
Views: 61040

Okay, the deadline has come and gone, and I only received a PATHETIC number of submissions so far. I've decided to extend the deadline for one more week, until: NOVEMBER 20TH The next issue will be out shortly thereafter -- that is, if I receive enough submissions. So far, I've received only the fol...
by Pete
Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:48 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: QBasic communication through COM1 port? (reader question)
Replies: 3
Views: 10020

QBasic communication through COM1 port? (reader question)

Question from QB Express reader Eric: Hi Pete, I am going to try to use Qbasic to talk to a piece of equipment through the COM1 port via RS232. I did this may years ago but I have forgot how to do this. I will need to both read and write information. Can you tell me the correct command, format and ...
by Pete
Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: SVGA in QBasic question (from Tolga Sizene)
Replies: 1
Views: 5725

SVGA in QBasic question (from Tolga Sizene)

A question from a QB Express reader... Hi!. I really need help. I am triing to set a svga screen in qb4.5. I've tried 'call interruptx' and even 'call absolute'. And I set the svga screen. Since I have a LCD monitor, the systems with a CRT monitor installed, does not runs my program. The monitors sa...
by Pete
Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:11 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: neozones
Replies: 9
Views: 22262

Wow, almost every QB site used the same message board format: http://web.archive.org/web/20010803104155/http://neozones.tekscode.com/qboard.php3 Just like FlatForum (by Plasma) and QB45's original message board. There's a reason for that... back in 1997 and 1998, this website Server.com gave away f...