I have an old computer with Windows 95 and MS-DOS QBasic Copyright 1987-1991.
I like to write programs to solve complicated recreational math problems.
Should I download a newer version of QBasic or QuickBASIC?
I would like to stay with QB language and not get into C++.
Thanks for your help!
Don Dechman
Charleston, WV
There isn't a new version of QBasic, you have the latest (v.1.1, free with MSDOS 6.22 and Windows 9X). QB was also discontinued in 1988 (last version: 4.5), the Basic Compiler was discontinued in 1990 (with PDS 7.1) and Visual Basic for DOS only released one version in 1992.
I would recommend getting Visual Basic for DOS. It is the most powerful compiler in the Microsoft line for MSDOS. You can grab it from
http://www.download-qb.tk . The BASIC dialect it uses is a superset of QBasic's, that means that everything that works in your QBasic interpreter will work in VBDOS, plus it has a lot of extra features.
VBDOS is good, but it's an extra 5 megs to download. IMHO 7.1 is fine.
Qb v7.1 is the best =). It has a lot of good features. Also, if you get into advanced stuff you can use math libraries which add more features to the existing language.
QB 7.1 does not exist. You mean PDS 7.1.
But no, VBDOS is better.