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Larssie111

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    QBasic 4.5
    « on: January 29, 2010, 10:12:54 AM »
    Hello,

    I have a question.
    I have Quick Basic 4.5 and I want to create 265 colors in DOS (with qbasic)
    How do I have to do that???

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    Re: QBasic 4.5
    « Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 10:14:05 AM »
    SCREEN 13, and the graphics commands. (LINE, PSET, CIRCLE, etc)
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      Re: QBasic 4.5
      « Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 10:35:42 AM »
      And how can I use that 265 colors?
      For example in screen 0:
      screen 0
      color 7,0,7

      In screen 0 there are 15 colors (0 until 15), but how to use this 265 colors?
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      Re: QBasic 4.5
      « Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 11:01:52 AM »
      256 colours.

      there are 256 colours. you choose color 1 through 256 using COLOR.
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 11:27:17 AM »
        But how do you know what color ou choose?
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 11:37:18 AM »
        you don't. you'll have to draw some shape with the colours in order to choose.

        I believe QB 4.5 has integrated help of some form. it has more details regarding COLOR and it's use with palettes.
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 05:33:04 PM »
        sorry to barge in but could someone tell me what is QBasic 4.5?
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #7 on: February 01, 2010, 05:42:37 PM »
        Quote from: comda on February 01, 2010, 05:33:04 PM
        sorry to barge in but could someone tell me what is QBasic 4.5?

        technically there is no QBASIC 4.5, it's actually called QuickBasic 4.5; QBasic is the version of the interpreter included with DOS 5 and 6.

        anyway, QuickBasic /QBasic are for writing BASIC programs.
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #8 on: February 01, 2010, 06:41:41 PM »
        writing BASIC programs like......?
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #9 on: February 01, 2010, 07:31:11 PM »
        Quote from: comda on February 01, 2010, 06:41:41 PM
        writing BASIC programs like......?


        That question makes no sense.
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #10 on: February 01, 2010, 08:05:40 PM »
        i was asking what kinds of programs can you write with QBasic?
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #11 on: February 01, 2010, 08:06:23 PM »
        There are many sites that can help you with Qbasic. Just Google the word "Qbasic" and find lots. It is well suited for use in DOS for things like simple arcade games, text games, text file manipulation and basic math calculations.
        QB 4.5 was the last compiler that Microsoft did for Qbasic.
        As BC said, the term "Qqasic 4.5" is popular jargon, but the program was really QB.EXE and there was an earlier version that was called QBASIC.EXE.
        There is not much interest in QBASIC on this forum.
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        Re: QBasic 4.5
        « Reply #12 on: February 02, 2010, 12:21:18 AM »
        Quickbasic versions up to 4.5 were an interpreter/compiler/IDE programming environment sold by Microsoft.

        Qbasic is a cut-down (cannot compile) version. Version 1.0 was shipped together with MS-DOS 5.0 and higher, as well as Windows 95, Windows NT 3.x, and Windows NT 4.0. IBM recompiled QBasic and included it in PC-DOS 5.x, as well as OS/2 2.0 onwards.[7]  eComStation, descended from OS/2 code, includes QBasic 1.0. QBasic 1.1 is included with MS-DOS 6.x, and, without EDIT, in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.
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