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Is anyone currently using QBasic? I was just curious. I did a few searches and it seems to have made a bit of a comeback, in some sense.
I'm making this, although it isn't QB. I thought I might post it anyway.

There is also a program by Plasma, called EMS Magic. Check out http://phatcode.net for a download. I'm not sure if it will help or not, but it's worth a shot. He didn't write that program for nothing ya know! :p As for porting it to FreeBASIC, sure it will be a lot faster and compatible with more ma...

I missed that somehow. Thanks Mac.

Hi. I can't run QB on this pc, so I'd like to try it wth a different compiler, if you don't mind. Can you post it as a text file somewhere? You can always use this site to post your code:

http://copy-pasta.com/

Thanks and have fun!

Ralph, that link leads to this thread. Was that an accident?

Hmmm... interesting. That could mean one of two things. Either FB is returning the stack space along on top of the ram when you call Fre(-1), or it's a bug. I'll have to ask around about this. Thanks, Ralph!

Oops! Just remove the Byval keywords. I forgot that QB doesn't support Byval/Byref. Sorry about that.

I'm glad you solved your other problem, but I wish you had an explanation! Maybe you had too many applications running before or something?

Sure. ;) This is an example of what I mean by heavy recursion. See how the floodfill sub calls itself? It overloads the stack very, very fast. Try increasing the radius of the circle. It should run in QB, but I can't be positive. I wrote the code using FB with the -lang QB switch. Please tell me if ...

No. EXIT SUB will not generate a stack overflow error. In many cases, it can even stop you from runing into that problem. I wouldn't suggest trying to go heavy on recursion with QB though. It runs out of stack space very quickly, for the standards of today.

Does QB allow you to swap whole UDT's of the same TYPE? I can't remember. That would be the best approach, in my opinion. If that doesn't work, I would definetly go with buff1.

Hmmm... Do you mean you have different fields stored in a linear fashion within the same array? Anyway, the easiest type of sort to learn, is the bubble sort. It's basically like this... Dim Array(20) As Integer For i = LBound(Array) To UBound(Array) y=y+1 Array(i) = Int(Rnd*1000) Print Array(i) Nex...

Yeah, the sites changed since then. Thanks for the heads up! The link in my sig should work now.

Try this site...
http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/network/qbdl/

Id go for QB4.5, if it was me.

I'm almost certain that Buff is right. However, you should be able to compile it from the command line. Does anyone have a copy of the command line options lying around? I don't have QB on this pc.

I wouldn't reccomend using DATA statements on the fly, but it sounds like you could just use RESTORE...

See how it works?