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It also works with WIDTH column and row settings in various screen modes.

Ted

Nice idea Ralph. I would add 1 to the row counts however.

Ted

Good to know Myst. Sometimes it is hard to find things so old that STILL work LOL. PEEKPOKE.ZIP information file:

http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.php? ... &filecat=4

Ted

YOU must learn the screen resolutions for Text and Graphics. Screen 0 has several WIDTH options for text. They are listed in the SCREEN Help section. The Text character sizes are also listed. I saw an Interrupt routine that returned those values, but it messed up my Monitor settings. Here are some P...

You cannot use ON ERROR in a SUB or Function. You don't need it there. Place ON ERROR ahead of the FUNCTION or SUB calls in the main program. It will still work from the main module. Also move your ErrorHandler sub to the main module! That is where ON ERROR looks for it. Be careful with error handle...

Sorry for sending you here! The FB people are kind of clanish. Try FB.COM if you can tolerate the rules.

You could post a competition in the Discussions areas of this forum.

Good Luck,

Ted

Cause FB does not have that option?

Cute kid! Hope he turns out like his mother

This QB program should set up a Windows session in XP or NT to use data sent to the LPT1 port by LPRINT. Go to the Control Panel - Printers list. First you must set the USB printer Properties to Shared in the Shared Tab and set the Printer Processor mode to Text in the Advanced Tab : CLS COLOR 11: L...

Yeah the site is down. I sure hope it has nothing to do with the owner Jack, as he SELDOM even visits. I have a lot of Uploads there too!

Ted

Is the single player option available at QbasicStation.com ?

I'd say Lachie has as much class as the other FB community leaders. Absolutely NONE!

He probably just wants to copy your game for his site!

Try using WAIT or page flipping in Screens 7 or 9. Don't use CLS!

Screen 13 can use the screen buffer directly from a BSAVE file.

Ted

There may be help on the NET. You have to verify if some of XP's files for NTVDM are installed correctly. I have the info somewhere if I can find it.

One thing you can try is to make a shortcut to QB.EXE. Then XP may recognize it better. For some reason, it worked for me.

Ted

But 64 bit XP machines cannot display graphic modes. TheBob has one of those monsters and has to use DosBox. I have rarely even tested it, but it does have settings you can change permanently or in the command line.

Stick with XP if it works well. 64 bit machines can only display Screen 0!

Ted

True Moneo, but the BAS file needs to be saved as Text Readable in the QB Save dialogue box. Otherwise you end up with machine code in Notepad which is useless!

Ted

DosBox can be configured to run faster! Read the documentation!

Ted

What is Windows EP? The printers must be connected to LPT1 to use LPRINT. Some may still not work correctly. Qbasic cannot use the USB ports directly! There are some other programs that can help for USB printers. Most are not free! Try creating text files with PRINT # and opening them in Notepad fro...

If your program runs different on every machine, perhaps you should try using a delay from the PC clock or TIMER. It returns actual fractions of seconds. In QB the highest speed measured is .05 seconds, but good enough for most programs. You can make one SUB program for delays and just send the valu...

Please don't place files on your root C drive! Qbasic may overwrite Windows files without warning! Use a folder for QB and it's files.

Ted