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petersull · Post by **petersull** » Sat May 01, 2010 12:01 am

Can anyone please explain how to run QB45 in Windows Vista home basic. It asks me to modify a pif file due to wrong startup directory, but I cannot locate a pif file. Please help. Regards, Peter Sullivan.

BurgerBytes · Post by **BurgerBytes** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:47 pm

VISTA will only run Qbasic in text mode! NO GRAPHICS!

Delete the old PIF file and create a new Shortcut to Qbasic.exe or QB.EXE.
Get DOSBOX for 64 bit machines.

petersull · Post by **petersull** » Wed May 05, 2010 10:26 pm

Thank you very much for that information.

Do I take it that if I use this 64 bit dosbox that I can use QB45 for graphics?

petersull · Post by **petersull** » Wed May 05, 2010 10:53 pm

Wonderful! I downloaded dosbox 0.73, tried SCREEN 12, and it does do graphics. Thank you very much.

Can you recommend another basic compiler that is reasonably similar to QB45 but will do graphics with higher resolutions?

I worked extensively with QB45 up to about 15 years ago, and have recently renewed my interest in programming, but have no experience of other languages.

Best regards, Peter Sullivan.

BurgerBytes · Post by **BurgerBytes** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:51 pm

Since you want to code QB on a 64 bit machine, you could try QB64 to do the job. It is a C compiler for old and new Qbasic programming. It also has new stuff for fonts, loading images, etc.

www.QB64.NET

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