Bad file mode

nutz&boltz · Post by **nutz&boltz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:44 am

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?

Dr_Davenstein · Post by **Dr_Davenstein** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:01 am

Just download QB4.5 or PDS. They can both load binary files.

nutz&boltz · Post by **nutz&boltz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:18 am

Thanks for that!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:06 pm

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

Dr_Davenstein · Post by **Dr_Davenstein** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:57 am

Just look in the compilers setion of this site.