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Active Forums => QB64 Discussion => Topic started by: Timbergetter on October 03, 2020, 12:52:02 am
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I was doing quite a bit of QuickBasic programming during the 1990s but this all faded away when computers moved to 64 bit processing and programs moved to GUI. I have just now discovered the QB64 world and have a sudden desire to resurrect some of my old programs. The programs are multi file packages and use libraries that I had developed so I am thinking that I will need to spend some time within QuickBasic re-acquainting myself with how the programs worked and doing some massaging to get the code ready for a port to QB64. I would really like to do this preparatory work with QuickBasic in a full screen mode. I thought I used to do this with Windows 98, but my attempts now to do this with Windows 98 SE as a VM in Vmware Player have not yet resulted in a full screen mode. I am hoping that someone might be able to offer advice on how to get QuickBasic IDE running fullscreen on a Player guest OS of some description. My host OS is Ubuntu 20.04.
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Have you looked into running QuickBASIC in DOSBox?
Pete
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No Pete, I haven’t. I’ve never used DOSBox but I’ll certainly give it a try if you think it has prospect.
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Update:
DOSBox seems to do everything l am needing with fullscreen. Many thanks for the pointer Pete.
DOSBox appears to be a better solution than doing it in Player. I should now be able to toggle between QuickBasic and the VM containing QB64.
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Glad it worked out for you.
Pete
He doesn't often code in QBasic, but when he does, he uses DOSBox.
He is, the most interesting programmer on the forum!