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Bad file mode
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:44 am
by nutz&boltz
I have some old basicA and QB programs written years ago. Some of them fail to load into the Qbasic 1.1 interpreter (bad file mode). I suspect they were saved in binary format? (Others I can open in notepad hence are ascii). Over the years i used GWbasic, basica, QB3, QB4.5 & Bascom 6. I can't remember what programs were saved with what version. Any ideas on how to rescue this old but still useful body of work?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:01 am
by Dr_Davenstein
Just download QB4.5 or PDS. They can both load binary files.
Bad file mode
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:18 am
by nutz&boltz
Thanks for that!
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:06 pm
by Guest
I have literally 100s of hours invested in engineering programs. I have the disks from Microsoft QucikBasic 4.0 ... but liek the other guy, I bought a new computer and loaded it all on there and 99% of my programs now say "bad file mode"
So thank you... Guess I'll try to find this PDS or QB4.5... I assume it is some sort of freeware or something ? Not sure where to find it. I would be happy to pay to get these programs up and running again...
bobmalcomb@aol.com
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:57 am
by Dr_Davenstein
Just look in the
compilers setion of this site.