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Starting QB4.5
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:01 am
by petersull
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.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:47 pm
by BurgerBytes
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.
Starting QB45
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:26 pm
by petersull
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?
Update
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:53 pm
by petersull
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.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:51 pm
by BurgerBytes
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