Qbasic

Qbasic



Hi All,

Whilst rummaging in my pc spares I extracted an old MSApp.  An IDE,
Basic script interpreter, which you may play about with but you would
need to confer with MS if you wanted to sell anything made using it.  I
doubt they will give free reign?

The file 'qbasic.exe' is 189 KB or <190 KB, and I attached some
explanation in a zip, to help anyone interested in this tool.  In order
to store it, I had to encrypt the file with a password which is 'qbasic'
[no quote marks just the letters in lower case]

I also included another Basic, Ubasic, by a whole team of erudite
professors in Japan, England and in the USA.  I found that in a legacy
archive on the internet, and it looks a better tool for anyone trying to
explore mathematics.  Unless I misinterpret what I read it uses 80 digit
calculations.  The files are in the zips
UBAS830.ZIP
and I also included UBMPQS32.ZIP, which seems to belong here.
UBHELP.XXX
UBIBM32.EXE seem to be the ones one may get to work.  I have not had
time to try but I would proceed as follows:
Extract these 2 files from UBAS830.ZIP to a working folder.  Open a Dos
Shell window in that folder.  Type >UBIBM32
Follow the UBHELP.XXX document.  There should be a command word for
invoking the online help pages of the manual while UBIBM32 is running,
and being Basic it should be fairly easy to get up and running.  Best of
luck with that!

The main interest of these legacy basics is in the example scripts,
which may enlighten us to old programming methods in use 20 years ago. 
But they provide a very small 'footprint' environment for making extra
functions on a pc, which may be utilised by calls from Powerpro and
other modern scripts.

Look out for the well-documented TSRBASIC folder. This interpreter can
'Terminate and Stay Resident' whilst a shell exists??  Try the examples.
and dont get back to me about anything you cant get to work.  You and I
are at the same level of knowledge with these three interpreters. 
Zilch!

HERE --->

http://www.autohotkey.net/~autokeyminer/archived/MyCDs.zip
<http://www.autohotkey.net/~autokeyminer/archived/MyCDs.zip>