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If this doesn't work maybe a petition should be set up to make QB available for a small price say £30. They could have one of those pay to download things. Or just chuck it on a CD with a license. I want to get a legal copy of QB but I just can't find one anywhere. Except for one site selling them second hand at $175.
This would at least provide Microsoft a reason for doing it.
Of course there would be no point in doing this if this petition works. Which i sincerely hope it does.
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besides, qb is slow. plus you have limited memory. a coding group might as well make a new qb from scratch. shinier, faster, more memory, etc. etc.
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Come on..."QB is slow", yeah, it is, now go give it up and learn C.
"QB Has limited memory", fine, go learn protected-mode, 32-bit assembly.
Jeez. It isn't QBasic that we love, it's the community that was built. C communities will send someone to kill you if you post a newbie question on a forum.
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Quote:Let's say they do release the source, what are you going to do with it? Expand on it? Port it to pmode? Just look at the source for qbasic 1.1, by the time you've figured out how it works you could have written your own from scratch
The are a number of open source Basic compilers available at the moment that would be a far better starting point than getting Qbasics source code. A number of people here have complained that none of the free Basic's available are 100% QBasic compatible. If they are open source, why not build on the existing work and try and work towards full QBasic compatibility (which probably wont happen once you goto pmode/32 bit).
I have the source to Liberty Basic somewhere and intend to have a look at it when I get some spare time. Although spare time is looking pretty slim this year, as Im working two jobs and doing Honours at Uni, my year project is on compilers though ;-)
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Quote:It isn't QBasic that we love, it's the community that was built. C communities will send someone to kill you if you post a newbie question on a forum.
Amen to that one.
Besides, when OBDS is done, people will have a 100% QB compatible BASIC for Windows (less libraries, of course...but there's a way around that too...hee hee) without segment limitations or sourcecode size limits.[/plug]
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See, I'm going to ask a newbie question right here, and people will be friendly, and not rip my lungs out: what's ODBC? (seriously, I want an answer to this one).
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AFAIK it's Open DataBase Connectivity, a policy by microsoft to set some standards about retrieving and storing information in databases.
But you really meant OBDS, didn't you
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In response to LC's post:
OBDS: Open Basic Development System.
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Okay, so just another Database solution?
(Counts: MySQL, MS SQL server, ODBS, Access...)
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Another free compiler, called QuickForward, is currently being developed. The goal of the compiler is to be 99% compatible with QuickBasic. You might want to check it out at some point. I've posted the link below.
http://www.sunbeem.net/quickforward
The developer would also appreciate any help towards releasing it sooner. :wink:
