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off site Resources
By: axlyon Date: March 25, 2012, 10:56 am
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a place to post resources related to programming/modding/hacking
that are not on this site.
Instructables.com has everything under the sun you might want!
from programming to hacking to modding it will tel you how to do
it and undo it!
GPWiki is mostly abandoned but it's still viable.
Jharbour.com is the website of Jonathan S Harbour. a
programmer/author who has written many helpful books. i would
recommend any and all of his books.
QB64.net has helpful resources, but a lot of political and
libelous discussion in it's general section. use the forum with
caution. the wiki if safe from all that though.
wikipedia.org of course!
eHow and WikiHow are somewhat decent if you look hard enough you
can find what you are looking for.
if anyone comes up with other resources please feel free to post
them here
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Re: off site Resources
By: qb64user Date: March 25, 2012, 5:03 pm
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I just joined, in relation to qb64, the best resources are at
HTML http://www.qb64.net
HTML http://www.qb64.net
and
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Some tutorials are available at the same wiki,
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=QB64_Tutorials
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=QB64_Tutorials
Well anyway good luck with your forum.
from a qb64user
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Re: off site Resources
By: axlyon Date: March 25, 2012, 7:09 pm
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hello! welcome to the forum!
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Re: off site Resources
By: qb64user Date: March 25, 2012, 9:11 pm
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Hello, and thank you, for the welcome ,
I hope that was ok to post these links, as outside resources,
maybe I should have asked first,.
This is another one I just recently found on google,
QBasic Tutorial 1 - Getting Started - Free Download - QB64
HTML http://www.schoolfreeware.com/QBasic_Tutorial_1_-_Getting_Started_-_Free_Download_-_QB64.html
It looked pretty good to me, and seems packed full of
information. I myself have never written any real tutorials, and
I am not sure if it would be correct to copy someone elses, so I
just post the links, when I stumble on to any new ones, that
look useful.
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Re: off site Resources
By: axlyon Date: March 25, 2012, 9:20 pm
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well this is the off site resources thread, i specifically said
this is for resources not on this forum
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Re: off site Resources
By: OlDosLover Date: March 27, 2012, 12:54 am
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Hi all,
Here is a link to the famous ABC archives. This was a
project of the 1990's , that put together a lot of older and
then current QBasic programs into a Win style reader all split
into categories. Its well worth the download ands reading. It is
15MB in size.
HTML http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10291175/ABC.rar
HTML http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10291175/ABC.rar
OlDosLover.
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Re: off site Resources
By: axlyon Date: March 27, 2012, 12:00 pm
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thanks for the link! downloading now
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Re: off site Resources
By: johnfree Date: April 29, 2012, 8:59 am
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[quote author=axlyon link=topic=7.msg12#msg12 date=1332691019]
a place to post resources related to programming/modding/hacking
that are not on this site.
Jharbour.com is the website of Jonathan S Harbour. a
programmer/author who has written many helpful books. i would
recommend any and all of his books.
QB64.net has helpful resources, but a lot of political and
libelous discussion in it's general section. use the forum with
caution. the wiki if safe from all that though.
if anyone comes up with other resources please feel free to post
them here
[/quote]
The J S Harbour books are fantastic and he has just written one
specifically for QB64 and for young people to write their own
adventure games
What you say about QB64 is dead right - the forum is excellent
but ruined by Clippy and the mod who run a "Punch and Judy" show
(a political insulting battle) that THEY think funny but in fact
drives the best people away.
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Re: off site Resources
By: mr why Date: May 21, 2012, 2:50 am
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[quote author=qb64user link=topic=7.msg15#msg15 date=1332713000]
I just joined, in relation to qb64, the best resources are at
HTML http://www.qb64.net
HTML http://www.qb64.net
and
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Some tutorials are available at the same wiki,
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=QB64_Tutorials
HTML http://qb64.net/wiki/index.php?title=QB64_Tutorials
Well anyway good luck with your forum.
from a qb64user
[/quote]
QB64user, Welcome, good to have your help!
Please tell us more of your ideas on tutorials.
I am not sure "Tutorials" is the best word to use - newbies are
easily discxouraged if they suffered from "not the best
teachig"!
We can call them "Getting Started" or "How I wrote my first xxxx
program"
Put yourself in their shoes - remember how you felt about things
when you first began and explain in simple English (keeping away
from jargon and technical terms if you can!). Take everything by
example and in SIMPLE steps.
Yes qb64 is excellent (and a free download).
Especially it is excellent (fast and powerful with GREAT music
via _SNDRAW) - eventually.
That is AFTER you get your program working!
But QB64 has no way to warn you AT ONCE of all the errors you
make!
On the other hand QBASIC lets you ASK wht values all the numbers
have reached EVERY TIME it stops working. You just type ? and
the name like this for example
? N
and it tells you.
This makes QBAS far easier to lean on - and your finished
program then runs seamlessly and much faster on qb64
So start with QBAS (Quickbasic) and switch to QB64 once you get
it working!
BIll Gates tried to "torpedo" QBAS in his bodge fix SP2.
On many computers he succeeded - but not on mine. So perhaps not
on yours.
So give QBAS a try and see if it works on your computer.
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Re: off site Resources
By: mr why Date: May 25, 2012, 12:11 pm
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A wonderful resource is _SNDRAW within QB64.
With it you can make all manner of realistic sounds - any
instrument of any orchestra real or imagined. Chords,
polyphonics, harmonies and dischords.
I use SNDRAW (and a bit of physics) to design guitars, bells,
drums, organ pipes etc - listening to them before we build them.
That way there is no "black museum" of ones that did not work
and you can even have the fun of hearing the sound of any that
the laws of physics/acoustics say are impossible to build!
Mr Why
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