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What happens with my program? Does it crash? Does my program mode list report any truecolor modes available? Try the older version, as the newer one is more picky? Perhaps your card uses 24 bits, not 32 bits....

For QB, do the jpeg loader in my site work?

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I don't give a direct link to the file, as these do not work in Geocities

open a dos box
cd to the qb folder
key in close the dos box
browse qb folder and you will find a file brun45.txt you can read with notepad

Binding is always here, but it's hardly noticed. Perhaps your program is starting to grow big? Or are you running something else in the bacground you did'nt run before?

Use lib
[lib]
lib brun45.lib,brun45.txt,
[/lib]
It will print to brun45.txt the list of subs/functions of brun45.lib with the module they are in. Unforunately it will not tell you anything about the list of parameters.

Was the last message from someone who wanted to stay anonymous or it did the login fail again?

Now cookies work for me. The forum identified me when I entered.

You must parse the input line and set the timer accordingly...

Forgot to login again... Someting like this: 'main loop type timertype t as integer p as string*12 end type dim shared timers(10) as timertype for i=0 to 10:timers(i).time=-1:next i dim shared t! ' '-------------------------------------- sub startimer(timeout,prog$) 'search for an unused timer i=0 w...

Use timer variables: When starting a timeout, set a timing variable to the number of seconds to wait. In your main loop check regularly for the timer, each time a second passes decrease all active timer variables If one active timer reaches zero, the timeout has expired, so run whatever program you ...

To make a filesystem is not trivial work, I have never done it, my ideas are from how DOS filesystem works. You should ask some GUI guru... You should create two RANDOM files, one for the sector table, one forthe actual data. The size of the datafile is up to you, DOS supports up to 2GB.You should d...

Usually the COM ports are accessed as files, with OPEN, PRINT # and INPUT #. Why are you doing it the hard way?
Comm ports are the same in QB and in PDS

This should help http://faq.qbasicnews.com/?blast=SerialComms

For your own filesystem do you mean not merely intreface the DOS filesystem? In this case, create a huge file (2 GB) and manage it as you like. You could divid it in chunks of perhps 2 to 4 k and break files in pieces of the same size.You should maintain a table of which chunk is allocated, and whic...

FreeBasic has a transparent PUT that would save you a lot of work. No need of masking....

It was me. I forgot to register again...

victor: My memory degrades every year. The limitation is the compiler does'nt allow 8 bits data to have parity. I found it in Dav's MS Knowledge base for QB database. http://qbnz.com/dav/qbkb/?action=dict_find. Do a search for COM1, you will find interesting things. I forgot most of the issues about...

I'm afraid Mystik Shadows is wrong in this case... QB4.5 has no LOCAL error handling, whatever the online help says (perhaps a bug) ... Local error handling works only with PDS 7.1..or FB. The error handling routines must be at the end of the main program, or in the main part of the modules. They ca...

How many times do I need to tell you people! Notice how nearly everyone that posts code in plain text gets no replies (exept for me yelling at you). So post it in a code box and we may reply. Obey the moderator, guys.... Halifax: Mode 12h is very quirky, as each color in a pixel is in a diferent me...

Now seriously...
Being poker played for centuries with the same rules, is there still place for strategic improvements? It must have been studied by generations of statisticians. Ibelieved it was more a matter of psychology, of deducting what's the contrary's game from his/her reactions...
Am I wrong?

VBDOS creates 16 bit code too. Be warned QB-VBDOS comms had some quirks, some word widths wre incompatible with some stop bit numbers. I can find the exact values if you need them.. This old forum archive can be useful as a reference, 15 years ago QB was more used for comms than today http://www.out...