Lachie has posted the new FreeBASIC Games Directory competition with the theme of "Seasons of the Year" for more information please see the official thread at http://games.freebasic.net/forum/index.php?topic=559.0

Lachie has updated the FreeBASIC Games Directory with 18 new games. Visit http://games.freebasic.net/ to catch up on your FB gaming.

This came out in September, I should have posted it then..

Galleon is hard at work with a new version of the QB64 compiler (QBASIC code compatabile!) that makes smaller standalone EXE's that don't need the SDL DLL's to run.  One complaint people had with QB64 is the large SDL library overhead compiled EXE's required to run.  QB64 GL version is eleminating that!

Not every QB64 command up and running yet in the GL version, but most are.  This is a major development in the QB64 project and I encourage every QB fan to check it out.

A Windows & Linux version of QB64 GL is available (an Android version is in the works!)

Download page: http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=7122.0

- Dav

I cannot get an Epson Stylus S22 USB printer to printout using the usual LPRINT with QB. I expect other USB printers do not work now with QB

Any suggestions please. The printer works OK with other Basics etc.

Lachie has released Issue 8 of Basic Gaming. Take a look at the latest release/projects in the Basic Gaming scene.

Lachie has released the seventh edition of BASIC Gaming, read about the latest developments/project in the BASIC gaming scene at
http://games.freebasic.net/BASICGaming/I...index.html.

Lachie has released the sixth edition of BASIC Gaming, read about the latest developments/project in the BASIC gaming scene at
http://games.freebasic.net/BASICGaming/I...index.html.

Like some other Baisics I believe there is a way of persuading a printer to printout just text, even if you have no printer driver installed or perhaps the wrong driver.

Does anyone know the code please.

Gordon

The fifth edition of BASIC Gaming has been released, read about the latest developments/project in the BASIC gaming scene at http://games.freebasic.net/BASICGaming/I...index.html.

A few years back I wrote some programs(non game) which input data, write it to files, read these files and do different processes and print them/drop them into files which I could email the results out.  Now the wife bought an IMac.  So my question is, what programs are out there that are free/close to free, which are similar to qbasic/pds71 that i can rewrite my existing programs that will work on a mac?  I am no longer a computer guru (mabe 25 years ago, I used to write programs in business basic, but things change fast), so it would have to be something that is easy enough for me to do.