Do you still use Qbasic?

But for the games writers out there have a look at


http://www.blitzbasic.com

Now there's a basic dialect for writing games.

I have used it a little but it's sorta awkward.

And people on this board think they argue

I'm currently working for a company that has used QB
(compiled into EXE's) to develop a large pathology system
for use by medical laboratories. The system is a big
commercial success and the sofware is used by a large
number of labs in England.

Part of my job is to convert the QB application to VB6. The
old QB programs use flat files and we still have to support
that structure in the VB version, so we are probably the
only 21st century software house that doesn't store their
data in humungous databases. For all the usefulness of
databases, you can't beat the speed of finely tuned routines
accessing flat files. "Boring" I hear you say? Not when you
get to write your own recordset routines ;)


:D

I was paid quite for almost three years to program exclusively in ProBasic (same as Qbasic, but it came with some additional libraries) and writing batch files.

Some VP decided that Probasic and msDos 6.0 were not Y2K compliant (never mind that we had set up a small system and set the date forward) so we had to but ass last year to re-write almost 200 apps.

I almost laughed my ass off when we came into work after the holiday and saw the old system plugging along with no errors --- after the company spent 1/4 million on contractors and new hardware to build the y2k compliant system.....almost needless to say I don't work there anymore.

We supported a client for approx 6 years on an old COBOL Prime System. Their software was over 20 years old, with only the odd bug or two cropping up. During the course of our support we managed to re-write a few of the systems in dBase 111+ and then VB.

So of course they had to get in a Y2k expert, who claimed the whole system would need to be scraped, and totally re-written. Too make a long story short, we got a call in Feb for help..after spending a million or so the new system had totally collapsed and they were reverting to the existing system.

Managers are clearly employed for their inability to control IT projects and jump at any so called expert that tells them what they want to hear.

i used it before i lean't vb.... and i still use it today!

I do- absolutely.

If I have a completely DOS environment I have to work in,
or I have no other tools at my disposal (no licensing)to
make my own needed tools, I'll compile a QBasic program to
make some nice Command Line tools.

I still use QB quite a bit.

For all you that want a good graphics library, check out FutureLib from Future Software at http://www.qb45.com

i love QB.... but C is better

I still use qb and right now I am making a game creator for it. If you are interested please email me [email protected]

Frunkenstein would like that...

I'll send you an email under the name David ohlund

=)

I use qBasic.... i learnt it when i was 7.

QB was great.. but i hear PowerBasic is still better.. anyone knows were to get it?

hears an os written in qb 4.5.

http://members.nbci.com/alexjon/

Megatron, i attempted to create a gui for an upgrade to a program i had previously written that was designed to edit and decode disk fat and sectors. I had written custom routines to show mouse, hide mouse when drawing drop down menus, detecting which menu item was clicked, etc. I finally gave up, but i have a small library of (16-color) functions i wrote that make progress bars, etc. I never had a svga library. But qbasic was a nice tool to help learn assembly/source, since it was actually possible to have assembled code in your project by declaring an array or string with the assembly bytes in it and reading the address of the array. I used this method for call-backs from the mouse. You could program up to 4 mouse events depending on what keys you held down while clicking buttons. Each could call a different sub.

I use QB a LOT and it rocks! http://neozones.com and http://qbasic.qb45.com are awesome QB sites...

QBasic/QuickBasic is a legend!

I use it frequently and especially when I need to convince my techer that QB is waaaaaaay better and more powerful than that horrible Turbo Pascal :)

QBasic is much better than Pascal.. but i don't think its more powerful

Well it DOES allow you interrupt access and mouse use. ;)

QB also allows you to use dynamic arrays which is impossible in Turbo Pascal

Dynamic arrays? Couldn't you just use a linked list? or pointers? Or does Turbo Pascal not have any of these?