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    Re: Post Race!

    I came across a single of this song at work (placing old singles into a database for resale):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRffez98uYY

    This is sooo 80's! And while I don't remember this...
  2. Re: Unresolved external for localtime - Microsoft C 5.10 for MS-DOS

    Well, it appears to exist in my copy, there's this line in my time.h file:



    struct tm * _CDECL localtime(const time_t *);


    Also:
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  3. Unresolved external for localtime - Microsoft C 5.10 for MS-DOS

    When I try to compile this from inside Quick C I get an "unresolved external" error for the localtime function:



    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <time.h>

    int main() {
    time_t t =...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Google provided that as a translation for "waar je mee omgaat, word je mee besmet" - it looks weird to me too.
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    Re: Post Race!

    Are you starting to copy my bad habits now? XP

    Birth to a feather, flock together! LOL
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    Re: Very slow access

    Late reply, but the site has been working fine the last few days. And, I know about whack-a-mole from tv. :-) :-)
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    Re: Post Race!

    Probably! :-)
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    Re: Post Race!

    Hahaha, no her name is Tessa. :-)
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    Re: Post Race!

    Well, I do own a dog! :-) :-)
  10. Re: OPEN COM and DOSBox-X question.

    Alright, I simplified the line in the configuration file to:



    serial1 = file file:d:\output.txt


    Guess what? It works as expected now. :-) Got to love those silent failures. :-(
    ...
  11. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Fair enough. :-)
  12. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Okay, what you built isn't so much a chatbot as a shell for one. Unless it does anything else, I believe I'll take your word for it and leave it at that. :-) Thank you for sharing. :-)
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    Re: Post Race!

    LOL

    I thought as much.
  14. [RESOLVED] OPEN COM and DOSBox-X question.

    Curious as how to use the OPEN COM statement found in many older BASIC dialects I wrote this quick piece of code based on an example:



    OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,BIN" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
    PRINT #1,...
  15. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Alright, I had a look at your program, this is what it keeps replying when I try to send a message:



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    ChatBot
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    HTTP Request Failed: 400...
  16. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Congratulations with your father in law! :-) I am going to look at your program right now. Thank you for sharing! :-)
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    Re: Post Race!

    I think a lot, too much at times, probably. LOL - What exactly were you referring to?
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    Re: Post Race!

    I am not sure how to take that, but I guess it is good to be pedantic at times, I believe it is important to not just throw something together that works but to think about how you write it when...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Nah, such outdated languages don't really have any relevance anymore, so for me it is more chit chat than a real discussion. I am not really interested in obtaining software that runs under DOS if...
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    Re: Post Race!

    https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?902671-How-to-extract-text-from-HTML&highlight=qbasic+curl

    In this thread SmUX2k claims QBasic had web access with a utility called curl. Call me pedantic,...
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    Re: Post Race!

    For what it is worth, the forum seems to work fine for me.
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    Re: Post Race!

    "Well for 68754 the sum of its digits is 30. It has a total of 4 prime factors and 16 positive divisors...." - Can you write a good joke about that?

    ChatGPT
    Why did the number 68754 go to...
  23. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Oh really? May I see it too?
  24. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Fair enough, my reasoning is that it is unwise to take on overly large or complex projects especially for a beginner. If you keep the game design simple you won't bite off more than you can handle....
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    Re: Post Race!

    Well, I am glad you feel that way Shaggy. :-) What else could we discuss in this post race? I am out of ideas atm. :-(
  26. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    That sounds like a bit advanced, especially in vb6. Wouldn't vbnet be better suited for interfacing with those API's?

    If I had to make suggestions as to what gaouser could do to better learn vb6...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Glad to hear that, let's hope it stays that way for now! :-)
  28. Re: Feeling nostalgic I fired up QuickBASIC and wrote a Brain***** interpreter!

    Okay, I have looked at those financial functions, nothing more than highly specialized bookkeeping stuff imho. Not really worth looking at any further.
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    Re: Post Race!

    Done! :-) This forum is slow! :-(
  30. Re: Unicode (UTF-8) is still broken on these forums, as of Feb 23rd

    That'd explain why sometimes characters unexpectedly appear as question marks in my posts.
  31. Re: Feeling nostalgic I fired up QuickBASIC and wrote a Brain***** interpreter!

    Alright, I had a first real look at those financial functions... They all return double precision floating numberic values! Isn't that asking for the last thing you would want while doing financial...
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    Re: Post Race!

    I was off by six hours?! OMG! OMG!
    190588

    (Ahem)

    I was born about one month and three weeks prematurely. If you ignored that I'd be 44 years, 3 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes old....
  33. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    Well, you learn by doing! :-) Or I'd hope so! ;-)
  34. Re: Feeling nostalgic I fired up QuickBASIC and wrote a Brain***** interpreter!

    @2kaud: I suspect that this ISAM if used properly is indeed a pretty solid way of managing large amounts of data. The BookGen example which I complained about as being overly complex probably...
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    Re: Post Race!

    56 years, 7 months, and 17 days old - I am not even touching seconds! XP
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    Re: Post Race!

    Sounds like you were 16 or so back then, pretty much around the age I'd expect for someone to be interested in MTV.
  37. Re: VB6 COMMUNITY PROJECT - MSPAINT with Add-Ins

    @yereverluvinuncleber - I could be wrong but I think gaouser isn't trying to make a truly useful MSPaint clone, but rather learning about software development in general. @gaouser, can you tell why...
  38. Re: Feeling nostalgic I fired up QuickBASIC and wrote a Brain***** interpreter!

    Up next, something else I never really got, those financial functions. To be honest I never really got much deeper into that than adding income and subtracting expenses and how your interest...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Alright, that means MTV is much older than I thought! :-) I never got into MTV, once I learned to appreciate cartoons with crude humor I kind of liked Beavis and Butthead and their movie. But we were...
  40. Re: Feeling nostalgic I fired up QuickBASIC and wrote a Brain***** interpreter!

    Success!



    OPTION EXPLICIT
    DEFINT A-Z

    TYPE NumberStr
    Number AS STRING * 10
    END TYPE
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