Where can I find a QBasic compiler that works with....

[julioykaly]

Hello Everyone!

I have found a topic about qbasic not working in winxp, because some way, some how the files config.nt and autoexec.nt get reconfigered not to work properly with the winxp emulator of dos. I'll need to find the article on the microsoft web site, which basically they know about this problem, and I guess they can't figure out why this happens to some winxp installations. Crazy! I know but, well...Who knew!

Thanks!

[red_Marvin]

FBIde.exe has some foreground and background colors that, to my bad eyes

You can customize the colors...

[rpgfan3233]

I have tried FB, but, it doesn't seem, to me, to be nearly as friendly as QB.

Then I suggest not trying something like Java or C++ until you feel that you are ready to understand non-friendly error messages. For example, Dev-C++ tells you a problem, but it is up to you to figure out what it is. ;-)

[Ralph]

Julio:
Thanks for your information regarding QuickBASIC and Windows XP. Sort of confirms that, maybe, there is a solution for me, in the future.

red_Marvin:
I am much happier with FBIde now, because, after your post, I was able to cusomize the colors so that I obtained a good contrast. Thanks!

rpgfan3233:
You are very right! I don't intend to try to leave QuickBASIC or, at best, fbc.exe and FBIde.exe. That is about my limit. I am more of an amateur programmer, with no programs in mind, at this time. In the past, while working as an electrical engineeer, I did find good reason to do a few programs to solve electrical problems in the power end, such as instrument current transformer saturation curves, system short circuit currents and voltage drops, and such, but, since retiring, I have only done one, other than just a few very short, quick and dirty programs to obtain a few results that I was interested in. I also have become involved in trying to run the instrument transformer current saturation program in Windows XP, which, due to its graphics output, I have had problems with.

[relsoft]

Hello everyone again.

I'm getting an error message for the 3D Tutorials, with the file stars.bas. The error message is:

[source]
Error before "(": Array not dim!
LAYER = VARSEG(Vpage(0)) + 1 'Buffer Seg(Ask Plasma)
[/source]

But, above it, it has:

[source]
REDIM SHARED Vpage(32009) AS INTEGER 'our buffer
[/source]

What could be the problem!

Thanks!

try to do this:

QB/ah

I think that was the switch to get dynamic mem. :*)