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Can't find MS-DOS QBasic editor program
Posted by FishyDesigns [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 03:57:53 PM
I have a Windows ME, typing "qbasic" in the MS-DOS Prompt won't work, and my search program won't work. Does somebody know where it is?
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 04:13:18 PM
Whats the problem... get a new qbasic ( its nox exactly huge even if you have a 14.4 kb connection ). There are so many sources on the internet you'll spend more time looking for it ( PS try looking in C:/ ).
-LOOK NO SIGNATURE
Posted by eXorcus [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 04:34:32 PM
If you are interested in QBasic, try out some of these sites. They have a large selection of source code and tutorials and they should also have the QBasic interpreter available for download:
http://www.qb45.com/ http://www.neozones.com/ http://www.qbasic.com/
Posted by FishyDesigns [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 04:40:02 PM
I found it. It's called Edit and in the COMMANDS folder of WINDOWS.
Posted by Neumann [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 04:54:45 PM
EDIT is a text editor... It won't run anything.
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 06:41:21 PM
Aghh the confusion of Windows is overwhelming - solve all your Fishy problems with NetBSD , FreeBSD , OpenBSD or Linux.
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 20, 2002, 06:44:33 PM
aaah, the obfuscation of BSD/Linux is overpowering.
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 07:43:29 AM
Well at least you just type in whereis gopherd and it find you it.
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 11:30:42 AM
Doesn't qbasic happen to be somewhere on the win ME CD?
RedX
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 11:32:57 AM
RedX - get rid of your signature - I did.
Come on drop the sig !!
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 12:04:28 PM
vladimir why did you get rid of my signature?
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 12:30:01 PM
What ???? I got rid OF MY SIGNATURE and I WAS ASKING FOR YOU TO GET RID YOURS.
???????????
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 21, 2002, 06:55:14 PM
LOL!
Just kidding. It was one of these opportunities to mess with someones head. And I just couldn't resist.
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 01:36:34 AM
Well RedX you confused for about a 1/4 of a second there. :-). Which was scary.
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 08:42:54 AM
Yes, social engeneering can be fun. :-)
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 02:50:32 PM
social engineering... anyone here read "The Blue Nowhere"?
Posted by Mike_L [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 12:09:38 PM
QBasic.exe last shipped with MSDOS 6.22. All newer versions of DOS did not have it. This began with MSDOS 7 that shipped with Windows 95. See if you can find a computer that had Windows 3.1 on it, and you will find qbasic.exe in C:\DOS.
I think it will run on Windows ME, but you may not have access to all the video modes you would under DOS or Win9x. Windows ME did away with a large portion of the 16-bit subsystem that Windows 9x had. This means that it cannot give programs access to the hardware and BIOS; instead it emulates the hardware and BIOS. I did some fun things with QBasic before I learned about other programming languages. But I really wish I had been introduced to programming in a different way. I would be a much better programmer today if I had started with a well designed programming language. Check this out: http://www.htdp.org/
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 12:55:18 PM
Take your win'98 CD and look at /tools/oldmsdos tada: Qbasic.exe
Posted by sphinX [send private reply] at July 27, 2002, 10:21:56 PM
I used Qbasic a couple weeks ago on Windows XP to model some calculus problems I was working on, and I can confirm that it still works fine --- there's life in the old beast yet!
Posted by Jasaeka [send private reply] at August 10, 2002, 05:23:27 AM
I have Windows ME, I went my search program and type "qbacis" it don't work and i type in "qbasic" in MS-DOS Prompt, it STILL won't work.
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at August 10, 2002, 05:57:07 AM
look on your installation CD. It's probably available in tools/oldmsdos, as RedX said.
You might be well advised to learn something less old/dodgy, such as python. Or scheme. Or SML. More or less anything that's not a BASIC, really.
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