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QNews QBasic Newsletter issue 08
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QNews QBasic Newsletter
Issue Number 8
168 Members!
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Inside This Issue:
1. qb:libraries
2. The Final Say
3. More Screen 12
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1. qb:libraries
From: william bulmer <chuggaboywil@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 3:58 PM
qb:
So, just what are libraries in QB4.5 anyway? Can someone please tell
me?
One other thing: I'd like to know just how to use the ports. Bye.
-william
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2. The Final Say
From: Jeff Rapp <QNews@qble.hypermart.net>
Date: Sunday, November 16, 1998 8:00 PM
Sorry for the delay on this issue. Not too much to say
tonight. If anyone is looking for a semi-good TI-85 calculator
for use in math classes, I have one for sale. $40 o.b.o. It
includes manual in execelent condition. The calculator
locks-up during ASM game playing due to a bad (possibly ROM)
chip. The math functions and graphing all work fine. Once
again, it is great for math classes.
I am also looking for a new game for the Best of QBasic on
the QBasic Place website. If anyone knows of an execelent
game or program, please email it to me. Thanks!
Jeff Rapp
Editor of the QNews
jrapp@geocities.com
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3. More Screen 12
From: Robert E. Aukerman <RAukerman@compuserve.com>
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 10:31 PM
Jeff:
I had a good chuckle over the lively response to my suggestion that Basic
Screen 12 has merits overlooked. In reply: First, hats off to Zephyr
Software and their SVGA extensions for QuickBASIC and PDS7. Their
routines bring BASIC right up to the minute and deserves consideration by
anyone trying to write serious professional programs. It delivers all its
claims and it lightning fast. Second,
If you are a BASIC "gamer" then you have probably already made a total
commitment to fast sprite animation and to get speed you willingly accept,
and claim to like, fuzzy sprites, blurred backgrounds, huge text, and
corse lines. But then all games aren't fast, are they. Take Simm City
for example. A low resolution version would hardly delight even those who
like "warm" colors. You pays your money and y'u makes your choice.
It is silly to argue which is "best" when the objective is not agreed on
first. The point of my original remarks was directed to those trying to
work with QBasic or QuickBASIC without external routines, and trying to get
on screen results similar to the graphic rich screens common to all those
programs loaded into his PC. This particular objective is most easily
reached in high resolution, and graphic things made with tools they also
have (free) if Windows is loaded. BSAVE and BLOAD statements are very
powerful, quick, and designed to make graphics easy. BASIC how - to books
never venture beyond the graphic commands inside the language to say, a
paint program can also furnish graphics for BASIC. That important fact
seems to get lost, but to some it might be good news as an alternative.
Attached is Screen12.Zip. That file holds a tiny 2.4 K byte annotated
QBasic fragment, Scr12.Bas, and two graphic pieces which the routine
BLOADs. QBasic; no add ins, no memory addressing, no handmade arrays, no
Include files, no libraries.
Good luck with QNews. R. Aukerman ,
raukerman@compuserve.com
