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Well guys,
I gave up qbasic for a while and now have returned, But I cant get it to work on xp
Any idea what I can do? I have qb 1.1, 4.5. I did post on this a while back but cant remember the outcome
And I searched and couldent find the post, probably had to do with that defacer or something. Anyway any help is appeciated
Thanks,
Mofu
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Well, you can run QB within winXP, but it won't work properly. You'll experiment some drasticks speed-ups and slow-downs, and your low-level stuff won't work. The best option is having a small DOS or Win9X partition somewhere in your hard disk if you wanna retro-code in QB.
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oh well, Ill have to carry on using my 486 to write my qb programs. anyway, I am also guessing that qb wont work on linux right(I am pretty sure, but never tried it)?
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Quote: oh well, Ill have to carry on using my 486 to write my qb programs. anyway, I am also guessing that qb wont work on linux right(I am pretty sure, but never tried it)?
According to rumour, the DOS emulators on Linux work better than XP's one, actually... but I don't have any personal experience with them.
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that it could've ever worked with any version of windows past 3.11. The only reason that you can run QB with windows is because windows at least tries to emulate DOS when running DOS programs. The real question you need answered is "does Linux's DOS emulator do a better job of that than WinXP's?" I've heard several claims that Linux's DOS emulator does in fact, in general, work better than windows'. (I know one guy who insists that windows itself is more stable when running on top of Linux. Don't ask me how he got it to do that.)
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Thanks for your help guys
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I can point you to "DOSEMU". I've read good reviews of it, and I know that QB and QB games work very good on them (a friend tested JILL on it and it ran smoothly).
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i would agree with the the partioning
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when I'm getting my new computer loaded with Xp, i'm formatting the drive and loading 98.
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Quote:i would agree with the the partioning
Wait... mofu, is your computer on NTFS or FAT32? Because QB might need FAT32 or lower... though I'm not quite sure about that. I had WinME as main OS and XP as dual boot, so my hard drives are all FAT32
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