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I solved the problem! I had forgotten the trick Ralph advised me about: starting QB from a desktop icon, rather than going to Start/Run/c:\program files\DosBox-0.63\dosbox.exe
then z> mount c c:\
c
qbasic\qb

which obviously was a huge pain anyway. For some magical reason QB executes a zillion times ...

Does anyone know an alternative way to make a QB program stop executing, besides control - break? It's not working for me
--running QB 4.5 under dosbox 0.63 and windows 2000.

Ralph, Dr D: thanks for your replies. I have resolved to nurse the old Q-basic code through one more publication (I'm using it for scientific computing, processing a 3 000 day record of weather data taken at hourly intervals). I can just get things set up and let it churn away over night -- should ...

Friends:
I have my old QuickBasic program running nicely under DosBox-0.63, but it's excruciatingly slow. (I'm running Windows 2000). Here are my questions: Would it run faster if I recoded it in FreeBasic? Would it run faster if ran it on my laptop under Vista?
Appreciatively
-Seth

Ralph, I use QB for scientific computing -- my program pulls in very long meteorological records (e.g., hourly temperatures X 10 yrs), does a bunch of calculations, and spits out even longer output files. I tried TrueBasic but that program runs too slow for my needs -- maybe because of the double ...

I got the shortcut Icon working as suggested. That saves me a number of steps -- going to the Z prompt, mounting the C directory, etc. And the display is now full-screen. Wow -- I'm thrilled to find Qbasic so well supported under new OSs. And I thought I was going to have to reprogram my lengthy ...

I have answered my own question. Yes indeed, QB4.5 runs like a top once DOSBox is installed on my Windows2000NT-running machine. Nice!

Friends: I wish to run QB4.5 under Windows 2000NT. I have installed QB4.5 on C drive. I enter 'cmd' in the 'run' box to get the little black dos-looking screen, go to appropriate directory, type 'qp', and up pops the beloved blue screen inside a window. I can type in the editing screen but can't ...