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QBasic.com under new management!
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I don't think that QBasic and FreeBasic should be treated that seperately -after all FreeBasic is born from qbasic and it's qommunity. Is desgined for best compability with QBasic as is possible. And the result is that lots of QB sources work under FB with no modification at all or require minor changes.

Therefore I feel that FreeBasic should be treated as successor to QBasic and not entirely seperated from it. It extends the language and brings QBasic to the 21st century: Native Linux, Windows and dos versions -allow it to use on far greater range of systems, it's 32bit architecture gives a great speedburst and removes memory limitations that QBasic has lounged for all these many years, great range of professional apis and libraries that already exist for FreeBasic makes it even more attractive. And not to mention new features and concepts it has introduced. And yet it has remained just as simple as qbasic. If not even simpler.

Why I'm saying all this is: many people who search for qbasic find this site first -it is listed in top of many search engines and naturally get's lots of traffic. Qbasic is old ( face it people ) in a few years with next windows it won't probably even work anymore under windows. Wich will make it truly extinct. And if there is alternative? Why not?

I'm not clmaiming that QBasic.com should host 100% FreeBasic -my believe is it would be best if this site would serve as a museum site of qbasic and be dedicated for qbasic -but have a recomendatory reference to FreeBasic as prefered successor.

One more reason is a legal point of view. QBasic is not free and posting it for download anywhere is illegal. FreeBasic is free for download and any kind of use. Including for producing commercial software on it.

About your claims to VisualBasic -VisualBasic is too different and enirely different entity on its own. Therefore cannot be taken seriously -from the standpoint of QBasic and being it's successor.
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QBasic.com under new management! - by Mark - 10-28-2005, 04:43 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by KiZ - 10-28-2005, 04:53 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by marinedalek - 10-28-2005, 05:06 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Mark - 10-28-2005, 05:32 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by dumbledore - 10-28-2005, 07:40 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Anonymous - 10-28-2005, 08:19 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by dumbledore - 10-28-2005, 09:45 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by matthewr2_1 - 10-28-2005, 11:20 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by sid67 - 10-28-2005, 12:43 PM
QBasic.com under new management! - by sid67 - 10-28-2005, 12:45 PM
QBasic.com under new management! - by NecrosIhsan - 10-28-2005, 04:26 PM
QBasic.com under new management! - by matt2jones - 10-28-2005, 04:41 PM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Mark - 10-28-2005, 05:10 PM
QBasic.com under new management! - by matthewr2_1 - 10-29-2005, 05:58 AM
Great Timing! - by TecBrat - 10-30-2005, 04:21 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by ShadowWolf - 10-30-2005, 05:20 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by VonGodric - 10-30-2005, 06:16 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by rpgfan3233 - 10-30-2005, 08:13 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Sumo Jo - 10-31-2005, 12:37 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Anonymous - 10-31-2005, 11:44 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by dumbledore - 11-01-2005, 01:10 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Oz - 11-01-2005, 02:45 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Z!re - 11-01-2005, 04:24 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by Anonymous - 11-01-2005, 05:50 AM
QBasic.com under new management! - by v3cz0r - 11-01-2005, 09:10 AM
Re: Great Timing! - by TecBrat - 10-01-2014, 01:05 AM

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