**broken link removed**, a QBasic that lets you create .exe files. It is a good software for prototyping serial and parallel ports interfacing problems...
oh man...qbasic, that brings back some memories. My dad brought home a pc from work, a whopping 386 (with the math coprocessor :lol: ). My brother and friends would go onto the old bulletin board systems and stuff. We even wrote our own games in qbasic. I think I was only 9 years old at the time too. (Im 21 now)
I am 21 too... My first PC was probably a 186. PC XT. It has 640 Kb Ram and 20 MB HD. a 5 1/2" floppy drive. It had a basic built in into it's ROM. SO if no OS is found, it started GWBasic.
I started withy QBasic when I was 13. It was a mac with a DOS compatablity card.
I still have a running 286 in my daughters bedroom. 8 Mhz. 64k ram expanded to 1 meg. and 20 meg hard disk.
5 1/4 disk and 3.5 inch floppies.
It costed $5000 brand new.
Thats really weird that you mentioned that. I'm working on this locomotive simulator project at work with a couple other interns, and we are using unix based systems. None of us have used Unix before, so its kinda difficult to learn, but since I am familar with dos, I've picked up on it quicker than them. which makes me appear to be smart :lol:
I've also noticed that I pick up on how to use software very quickly. Which could be related to my early exposure to computers.
Fantastic, thanks lord loh :!:
I look forward to using this - just finished downloading
I bought (!) VB6 Pro (a legal installation?) and use it for odds and ends but being an object oriented laguage it is USELESS at those little tasks we took for granted with good old linear BASIC, such as converting ASCII coded HEX to binary for ROM codes etc.
I started on DEC PDP 11 series at work and a Sinclair Spectrum for home - I still think the Spectrum a really good computer, no M$ bloatware !
I bought (!) VB6 Pro (a legal installation?) and use it for odds and ends but being an object oriented laguage it is USELESS at those little tasks we took for granted with good old linear BASIC, such as converting ASCII coded HEX to binary for ROM codes etc.
Don't use the object oriented features then?, it's a 'super set' of an old BASIC, you should be able to do pretty well anything you could with an old BASIC. In fact, if it's anything like Delphi!, you'll probably find many of the things you want to do are already supplied as part of the compiler. I've written a number of things in Delphi over the years, only to find out later I could have done it with a single line of code! - just by using a supplied library
Yea I downloaded the file too but I've no idea what type of file it is. Even running the file on an old win 95 in dos mode doesn't work. Bugger as I'd luv a copy of Qbasic to tinker with
You probably did not read the download page. It is compressed in 7zip format... Better than RAR or zip. You need to download a 7zip software from 7-ZIP.org