03-26-2005, 11:28 PM
I learned completely on my own.
Actually, I stumbled upon QBasic when I was searching the hard drive of my i486X a while back.
Here's how it started:
I got this computer from my godmother about 2 years ago. It had Win95 and 3.11, but I accidentally uninstalled 3.11. One day, I was in Explorer, and I noticed a small little folder called "DOS". I opened it, then saw the name "qbasic.exe" and I double-clicked it. I'm a fast learner, and in about 2 weeks I had everything down.
What I'm trying to say is that most everything you need to know can simply be stumbled upon, say when looking at other programs, fooling around with commands, etc. Basically it's all logic.
Just for kicks, here's the specs on RADIUM-V (that's what I call my computer)
Intel 486X 33MHz processor
6mb RAM (7mb if not running W95)
425mb Hard drive compressed to a total of 600 MB (with host)
Win95 with Microsoft Plus!
3 1/2 floppy
5 1/4 floppy
newly installed CD drive
A directory, games, about 20mb of freeware and shareware games from http://Dosgames.com (all copied from one computer to this with a single floppy, back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and...)
And, of course, QBasic 4.5!
And, I was the one who inspired Pyrokid to use QBasic (he started with HTML, but asked for more when he saw my BOWLING), and now he's better than me!
I say if you want to use QBasic, I'm already a fan of your creations.
Actually, I stumbled upon QBasic when I was searching the hard drive of my i486X a while back.
Here's how it started:
I got this computer from my godmother about 2 years ago. It had Win95 and 3.11, but I accidentally uninstalled 3.11. One day, I was in Explorer, and I noticed a small little folder called "DOS". I opened it, then saw the name "qbasic.exe" and I double-clicked it. I'm a fast learner, and in about 2 weeks I had everything down.
What I'm trying to say is that most everything you need to know can simply be stumbled upon, say when looking at other programs, fooling around with commands, etc. Basically it's all logic.
Just for kicks, here's the specs on RADIUM-V (that's what I call my computer)
Intel 486X 33MHz processor
6mb RAM (7mb if not running W95)
425mb Hard drive compressed to a total of 600 MB (with host)
Win95 with Microsoft Plus!
3 1/2 floppy
5 1/4 floppy
newly installed CD drive
A directory, games, about 20mb of freeware and shareware games from http://Dosgames.com (all copied from one computer to this with a single floppy, back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and...)
And, of course, QBasic 4.5!
And, I was the one who inspired Pyrokid to use QBasic (he started with HTML, but asked for more when he saw my BOWLING), and now he's better than me!
I say if you want to use QBasic, I'm already a fan of your creations.