Anyone know of a functional BASIC to QB converter around?
Which question? Antonio's, or mine?
GW-BASIC, if possible.
Ah, THAT Basic!
Most of GW-Basic programs should run in QB. Just load the program in GWBASIC and re-save it in ASCII form, so QB can load it.
If what bothers you is line numbers there is a QB utility called REMLINE.BAS removing all unneeded line numbers.
Yeah. If you have your GW-BASIC program saved in token format, just load your GW-BASIC, load your program, and type:
Code:
SAVE "progname.bas",a
The resulting ASCII text can be run in QB without any changes. In the past time, M$ cared about backwards compatibility, such a thing that they have surely forgotten a while ago.
Zack has REMLINE.BAS, courtesy of yours truly (I found it from a very obscure place, who else has it?), so I thought he'd know how. (Zack, you even put REMLINE on your site saying it could be used to convert GW-BASIC to QBasic, why the question?)
REMLINE.BAS comes with DOS 5.0
REMLINE.BAS came with everything. I think I first saw it back with BASCOM 1.
However, if you can't find it, so what? Do the conversion like Nathan said above, and leave the program with all the line numbers in it. They won't hurt or effect anything.
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Oracle: I got Remline from...ah...wait, I forget...but it wasn't from you, I know that.
Remline gets rid of line numbers. It doesn't convert the prog.
Hmm, a converter from BASICA to QB, then? I don't have my BASIC version straight.
