Is there still a great interest in QBasic?

**Jack Daniels** · Aug 22nd, 2002, 01:09 PM

My mate has written heaps of great Qbasic program which peform various functions, but mainly mathematical formulas to draw certain things, or mapping of the planets paths and locations etc.

If anyones interested i can post the code.

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Sep 25th, 2002, 08:23 AM

QBasic is dead.

The code runs lightning fast on today's computers though.

**Jack Daniels** · Sep 25th, 2002, 09:49 PM

yeh judging by the replies there isn't

but yeh i just got a mate still obsessed with it, he does lots of mathematical stuff in it because of it's speed.

**christill** · Sep 26th, 2002, 12:25 PM

Yeah! I think Qb is still in touch, i use it everyday to create database programs and read and edit them in Vb

**Professor29** · Sep 26th, 2002, 04:45 PM

QB is hard to kill, because it's one of the first languages people learn when they decide to try their hand in programming. Plus, 4.5 can make .EXEs, and the .BAS files are quite small, as is QBasic. Also, there are many pages on the internet with QBasic files. Run a search if you don't believe me.

I would like to see the programs your friend has written, could you put them in a .zip file and post it?

**Jack Daniels** · Sep 26th, 2002, 09:34 PM

Yeh ok just gimmie a week to find him now cause we finished school

**Professor29** · Sep 30th, 2002, 05:31 PM

What kind of programs did he make?

**king_scott_2** · Oct 2nd, 2002, 06:42 PM

i learned on qbasic. I still use it to make progams to link the amiga up to a PC for chat programs and my own FTP stuff. Now with qbasic 7.1 future library you can even include mouses in it. i downloaded 7.1 from the web.

**GSIV** · Oct 9th, 2002, 08:37 PM

Qbasic was cool, and it still contained the inp & out commands.

**makai** · Oct 11th, 2002, 12:04 AM

I still maintain an array of accounting programs in QB7

1 small standalone exe that I can email updates
2 direct control (and 2 way communication) with printer
3 data files as originally designed are tiny - easy upload and download for remote access of all data from day 1 of a business

**Jack Daniels** · Oct 11th, 2002, 12:08 AM

Yeh i still got a few hundred programs achived away, but i still use QB to control the joystick port to turn on and off relays.

**remerico** · Oct 29th, 2002, 06:56 PM

I love QBasic!

QBasic maybe dead, but I'm stilll using it.

**Blinky Bill** · Oct 29th, 2002, 08:01 PM

The first language i learned was QBasic, and a lot of it obviously helped me with VB when i was first exposed to it. QB is a lot simpler than VB so i would say that QB would always be useful as an intro to VB.

**radskatehell** · Jan 12th, 2003, 12:19 AM

i think QB is dead, but not played out. i use it almost every day.
sure its old and theres not objects, but progs with qb are SO easy to make and if you know one language in and out really well, its gotta be Qbasic. i usually use qb for stupid worthless progs but its fun for me. if ur a programmer and its not fun for ya, quit. get a job or hobbie you more rather do.

**usamaalam** · Jan 13th, 2003, 04:48 PM

I learned programming from Qbasic, but practically it is dead. But I am teaching Qbasic to the students of programming. So, plz post the code, it will be helpful to me and my students.

Thanx

**Dex4now** · Jan 15th, 2003, 08:35 PM

Hi folks, this is my first post here, but I have to strongly disagree that Qb is dead. There are thousands of people who still use it for all kinds of things. Certainly, it probably isn't used for main-stream applications, but for personal little utilities, it can't be beat.

Also, its a great learning tool for figuring out serial ports and stuff like that. I've got a million, (ok, maybe not that many), QB programs that I use for all sorts of stuff.

Anyway, glad I found this forum. Looking forward to lots of good info.

Dex

**jian2587** · Jan 16th, 2003, 05:22 AM

Yea there're tons of QB devotees out there
I'm one of them

I guess QB can do all sorts of things, even hardware and system
stuffs, if used properly. If QB can be customized and optimized
further more to system programming, I'd be very happy. But no,
there ain't anyone to do it. So I'm doing one myself. BTW, visit
http://caos.stealthonline.com/forums

**Peter Swinkels** · Feb 2nd, 2003, 02:20 PM

don't use it much any more. I prefer Visual Basic
for most things now. There still seem to be other
people who work with Qbasic, just look at http://www.qbasic.com
and visit the forum. I still post there some times.

**NKoder** · Feb 19th, 2003, 03:43 PM

Qbasic is cool, though. It was also one of the first programming languages that I learned and I think that it helped me make the jump to vb and c++. vb is easy, but i prefer c++ for some odd reason. I have qb 7.1, and its pretty fun. I just use it to toy around with. for any stronger apps, i try to use vb, and eventually I want to be a c++ xpert. You can make so much with it in my opinion.

**ProgrammerJon** · Feb 19th, 2003, 04:02 PM

While I was waiting for vb.net to arrive in the mail I played around a little bit with C but I didn't get very far. C seem alot harder than vb by trial and error.

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