FreeBasic? FreeBasic is a free and open source compiler that works with Windows, DOS, and Linux. It includes a QuickBasic emulation mode but also has many features of contemporary languages. The most recent version is 1.06 from Feb. 18, 2019. Development appears to have slowed to a crawl. Integrated Development Environments winFBE Last Release: 2019 …
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I was recently evaluating True Basic for its potential to migrate an old DOS application to Windows, here is what I learned: True Basic was Basmark Basic back in the day. There is almost no activity on the support forums. The software doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2013. The basic version doesn’t include …
Colors The COLOR statement in QuickBasic allows one to change the text/background. The sixteen colors available are (names from QBasic Wikibook; hexadecimal from QB64 Wiki): 00: Black – #000050 01: Dark Blue – #0000A8 02: Dark Green – #00A800 03: Dark Cyan – #00A8A8 04: Dark Red – #A80000 05: Dark Purple – #A800A8 06: Orange …
I had an old QuickBasic game with .VGA files in it. What are .VGA files? Some sort of image format. Eventually I was able to determine that these were BSAVE files, but how to move them to something current? Enter Deark (free and open source), a command-line utility that can decode files in one format and …