Zack and Oracle

[na_th_an]

This post is regarding your QB downloads. There is some stuff that I would like you to fix, if possible:

1.- QBasic 1.1 is not the first version of QB. In fact, it came in 1993 after QBasic 1.0, which came out in 1990 after QB 4.5. M$ just wanted a easy interpreter to include with MSDOS 5 and 6. QBasic 1.1 came with MSDOS 6.22 and Windows 9X.

2.- QB 3.0 is way better than 2.0. In fact, QB 2.0 is really buggy. I could send you QB 2.1 which fixes all the bugs. QB 3.0 improves language wise. Personally I never used it, but my friend Clarita began with that compiler and she says it is fast and nice.

3.- You both still lack QBasic 1.0 and Bascom. I can send you those as well.

4.- Your QB40.ZIP file is corrupted and can't be extracted. Winzip claims that 4 bytes are missing. You can download a valid archive here: http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/disciplinas/T...d/qb40.zip

5.- You both should include VBDOS, which is really hard to find.

6.- I believe you don't have the complete (9 megs!) version of PDS. Am I wrong?

And that's all

Btw, oracle, you have Moonrock .16 in your site. The last version is Moonrock 0.50 which can be downloaded here: http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/moonrock.html . I coded a lot for this nifty tiny compiler. I could not find QB45 and the communty until summer of 2000, so all I had was QBasic 1.0. This great little compiler was one of my only ways to compile something that looked like basic. Having games under 10 Kb is also great

The best thing about moonrock is that it is coded in QB. Rowan (the author) is always investigating about simple compilers. You can check his other stuff at his site as well.

Cheers.

[Zack]

Eeeek! No time to do that all now..but I will have time in about 36 hours, or maybe more like 48.

[na_th_an]

Oh, no rush intended, I just wanted to point that out

[oracle]

That's a big list

I'll see what I can do

[na_th_an]

Just for the sake of correction.

BTW, QBasic 1.1 source code comes with a BCOM50.LIB file... So QBasic 1.1 can be considered as a ripped off version of the missing QB50

[oracle]

Oh, and when you say VBDOS... I have it (I think), but it's huge, and I can't host any version of QB on my QBNZ server. So is it 6|9 megs? Then I know I've got the correct one.

[na_th_an]

[...] I can't host any version of QB on my QBNZ server.

Typo? Did you mean VB? I think that VBDOS is as outdated and abandoned as QB45 or PDS

So is it 6|9 megs? Then I know I've got the correct one.

I have the standard version that is around 4 megs.

[oracle]

Hmmm... no I meant QB, I'm not hosting any version of QB or VB on my QBNZ server, I'm not allowed

..your version is 4 megs, eh? P'raps you could post a link where I could get it from?

[na_th_an]

I could upload it for you tomorrow. My file list is:

Code:

El volumen de la unidad E es DATOS 1
El n£mero de serie del volumen es: 3163-16D5

Directorio de E:\Compila\VBDOS

16/12/2001  18:50    <DIR>          .
16/12/2001  18:50    <DIR>          ..
19/08/1992  23:59            44.355 CMNDLG.BAS
19/08/1992  23:59             1.249 CMNDLG.BI
19/08/1992  23:59             1.851 VBDOS.BI
19/08/1992  23:59               688 FIXSHIFT.COM
19/08/1992  23:59             6.947 MSHERC.COM
19/08/1992  23:59            36.615 LEARN.CTX
19/08/1992  23:59           150.562 BC.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59           320.900 FD.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59            33.820 FT.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59            76.864 LEARN.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59            59.171 LIB.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59           202.912 LINK.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59             4.206 PATCH87.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59            77.640 TRNSLATE.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59           555.520 VBDOS.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59           242.787 VBDRT10.EXE
19/08/1992  23:59            19.942 CMNDLGF.FRM
19/08/1992  23:59           985.236 VBDOS.HLP
19/08/1992  23:59           222.748 VBDPSS.HLP
19/08/1992  23:59             1.086 VBDOS.ICO
02/12/2002  04:04               328 FD.INI
16/12/2001  18:59               278 VBDOS.INI
19/08/1992  23:59             4.633 87.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59            49.687 CMNDLG.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59           628.151 VBDCL10.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59             2.587 VBDOS.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59            33.280 VBDOSQLB.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59            34.483 VBDRT10.LIB
19/08/1992  23:59                25 CMNDLG.MAK
19/08/1992  23:59               545 VBDOS.PIF
19/08/1992  23:59            33.380 CMNDLG.QLB
19/08/1992  23:59             7.661 VBDOS.QLB
19/08/1992  23:59            26.324 LEARN.SCN
19/08/1992  23:59            22.005 LEARN.SOB
19/08/1992  23:59             6.444 COMPAT.TXT
19/08/1992  23:59             9.052 PACKING.TXT
02/12/2002  04:04           134.542 DNI.EXE
07/02/2004  00:09                 0 vbdos.txt
              38 archivos      4.038.504 bytes
               2 dirs     633.225.216 bytes libres

So you are hotlinking your QB distros from outside? Where are they hosted? I am somewhat concerned about you guys having a QB40.ZIP that is not working. Can you solve it directly?

[oracle]

I'm hosting mine on my account at my ISP, I'm not hotlinking from anyone else

The qb40.zip problem can be fixed. In fact, I'll do it now (stoopid WS_FTP uploads in ascii by default even if you choose auto)