Qbasic 4.5 For Windows 7
Vanina Mazzillo
In QBasic you had basically two modes: Edit and Run. There were no third party libraries required for creating graphics or generating Audio tones (that I remember). You never had more than one "window" opened at a time.
I don't want him to have to jump around between various windows, try to wrap his mind around window toolkits, understand the command line, or use OOP just to get started. My end goal is to create simple graphical games with him -- not printing text out to the console.
If your computer is running DOS or Windows 3.1 it already hasQBasic.Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NToperating systems may have QBasic if it was chosen when the operating system was installed.Microsoft Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP do not come with QBasic(but it can be installed on these systems. See below).
If you can not find QBasic after doing the above, you might still haveit on your system.Browse through your disk, use "search" from the start menu(look for qbasic.exe), or maybe look at the documentation.
If you can't find QBasic, you can still read these notes.They won't be as interesting,but because of the active learning you will still be writing somesmall programs.If you are an Internet ace,you could try the microsoft web pagesfor a downloadable copy of QBasic.
I wanted to download qbasic and I did so from microsoft store. But that turned out to be completely different. It told it was "QBasic UWP Ver 1.4" which has the sample game nibbles. I am trying to find a tutorial and info abou that version on the web but can't find. I added a tag because it was required.
I recently updated my system to XP-2 with a pentium III. I have a number of qbasic programs I developed to use in my hobbies and lo and behold, I can't print to my usb port. The programs run okay. I should think this is a problem that has been solved many times but I haven't run acrossed the answer. Perhaps print-to-file then open and print the file with notepad or something. Any ideas?
Thanks! i check it out but i think i found a solution and it was as i suspected with a little wrinkle thrown in that makes it easier. 1st - create a text file the with the SHELL command you can open wordpad with a /p and the file name and wordpad will open the file and send it to the default windows printer. i haven't developed the code yet so wish me luck.
LPRINT is hardcoded to LPT1: (only) and doesn't offer a way to close the LPT port at the print job end, causing long delays in newer Windows systems. Changing "LPRINT" with "PRINT #" as explained in the article above is easy with a good text editor and solves both those problems.
Regards,
Davide
That's not enough. This way all the printer control codes embedded in the text would end up on paper.
You should create an RTF file for Wordpad instead of a TXT, and translate all the Bold, Condensed and other control codes sent by the Basic program into the corresponding RTF commands.
Regards,
Davide
One way is to do a 'Print Screen' which copies the screen to clipboard, then paste into Paint or other graphic editor. You can print from there. For a formatted output, you'll need a line printer on a parallel port. There are converters on the market from parallel to USB, also. I'm hoping someone will respond with a way to get QBasic to drive the USB port, as I have the same problem.
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