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- Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Favorite MS Operating System
- Replies: 26
- Views: 37481
Windows XP Pro with SP2, without a doubt. When configured correctly, it's decently lightweight, and it's hands down the stablest Microsoft OS I've ever used. Plus, I've never had any trouble running a huge number of QB (and DOS in general) programs with it. Of course, there are the stubborn few, but...
- Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:58 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: Spammers
- Replies: 51
- Views: 113222
- Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:49 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Compatibility
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22163
- Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:23 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: Can QBASIC decect your OS
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22242
In Windows NT-based OSes (like XP) the default command interpreter is cmd.exe, which is a regular 32-bit Windows console application, whereas 16-bit DOS apps get a classic 16-bit DOS COMMAND.COM whenever they try to execute anything, as in QB's SHELL. As for your question, I don't know of any easy w...
- Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:35 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: MBR with QB?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15221
The MBR is 512 bytes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBR You can't really write a boot sector in QB, because the code it emits requires the QB runtime to function. You won't be able to fit it into 512 bytes. Every boot sector I've seen has been written in assembly language. You can find a minimal work...
- Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your favorite search engine...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 63272
I normally use Google, but now and then I grab Pillage if I can't find what I'm looking for.
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:36 am
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: big stupid newbie questions
- Replies: 34
- Views: 46566
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Join the Linux Revolution!
- Replies: 217
- Views: 2246812
I don't want to use C in an operating system because it is case sensitive * smacks forehead* Just because identifiers in a language are case sensitive does not mean that there are no case-insensitive string comparison functions (stricmp ring any bells?) In order to get the lowercase version of a st...
- Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Join the Linux Revolution!
- Replies: 217
- Views: 2246812
- Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:20 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: QB Express #14 Now Available
- Replies: 57
- Views: 133018
Um... something went a little wrong on my tut. It should say: #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> But it just says: #include #include #include I opened up the source, and it does have the include files in the tut. So it must be mistaking it for HTML tags or somethin. In HTML, <...
- Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: COM to PS/2 port... help?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22145
I undestand what you're saying -- I know that most IBM laptops with PS/2 connectors only have one, which can be used for either mouse or keyboard; however, there is also a Y cable (like SebMcClouth was speaking of for Fujitsu/Siemens laptops) that allows you to connect both mouse and keyboard. I've ...
- Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:54 am
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: QB Express Article Requests
- Replies: 140
- Views: 838427
- Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:12 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: QB Express Article Requests
- Replies: 140
- Views: 838427
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Post your favorite SUBs here!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20739
Just a quick note - Eclipse is also the name of a major Java IDE: www.eclipse.org Some commonly useful procedures that came to mind: function intmax(a as integer, b as integer) as integer if a >= b then intmax = a else intmax = b end if end function function intmin(a as integer, b as integer) as int...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:23 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: QuickBasic for Mac?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15184
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:20 pm
- Forum: News and Announcements
- Topic: PTCXL 1.1 released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8158
Hmm, when attempting to run the provided demo executable, it just showed the non-client area of the window and promptly crashed. :( If I figure anything out, I'll let you know. EDIT: hrm... I tried recompiling from source but discovered that ptcxl.bi was not in the archive. That could be slightly im...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:17 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: QB Express Article Requests
- Replies: 140
- Views: 838427
I saw Pete's request for additional articles for the next QB Express, so -- any last-minute article requests, anyone? I could probably hack something together in the remaining days if it's something I'm well-versed in... I might even consider doing a game review if I can find a complete game that ru...
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
- Topic: inches of a monitor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13008
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A 2d Game
- Replies: 92
- Views: 117354
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:35 pm
- Forum: Pete's QB Site News
- Topic: QB Express Article Requests
- Replies: 140
- Views: 838427
An article about learning C(++) would perhaps be more realistic - to really be able to understand code written in another language to the extent that one can port it to another language, one must be versed in both languages. Just my 2 cents, anyway. :) I'm considering writing an article for this one...