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Expert: Alex Barry - 5/30/2009


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is there a download available?

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Hi, Donn,

The short answer is no, there is no Qbasic version that is specifically built for windows vista.  The last Qbasic release, to the most of my knowledge, was in the late 1980's.

There is, however, a solution, but it will take a few steps to get QBasic running.
1) Download DOSBox ( http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 )
  If you are not overly familiar with DOSBox, you may want to download a front-end, which are listed in the second box.
2) Download any version of QBasic, and put it in [main drive]:\DOS\QBasic
3) Set DOSBox up to automatically mount [main drive]:\DOS\QBasic
4) Open QBasic up through dosbox, and you're all set.

I don't know much about DOSBox if you run into a problem with it, but there is a forum on the website that may be able to help you out.

I hope that helps, take care,
-Alex

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I have been a qbasic programmer since 2000, creating games, minor libraries and various small programs. I have experience using interrupts, graphics, file input/output, the mouse cursor, and using libraries. I have also learned FreeBASIC, QB64, c/c++, python, lua, php and html.
I do not claim to be an absolute authority in any language, but I don't mind looking things up and learning with you.

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I have been programming in *Basic dialects since 2000, as mentioned in my expertise. After a year of QBasic, I learned C and C++, and dabbled a little in ASM (I don't program in ASM - I literally just played around to see how things work). When QB64 and FreeBASIC were released, I played with those languages. At the time, FreeBASIC offered more functionality and I sided with that language for a while. During that time, while I was learning new languages, that I would see what scripting languages are available, where I took up python and lua. I started to notice a staleness to QB64's development (which I kept tabs on from time to time), and am now trying to be active in it's community and maybe in it's development in the future. Currently, I am only active on the QB64.net forums, but I appear on occasion on FreeBASIC.net's forums as well.

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Highschool - 2007

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