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Title: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: FellippeHeitor on December 07, 2021, 08:49:45 pm

✨🎙🔊📻

In this episode we're going to talk to Scott Williams, from California. You can find him here on the forum and on Twitter as @vwbusguy, but, well, that can be misleading. You'll know why. This is a series of short interviews with people from the QB64 community.

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E04: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: TempodiBasic on December 08, 2021, 06:21:50 am

Hi guys
Fine to hear Scott and his nostalgic history.
My brain has been enlighted when I have heard this word "floppy"!
You bring me back to DOS Time when the bigger storage media was 1,44 floppy disk that using some software of compression it became more larger until to reach one and half its original size of storage.
The programs were misured as how many floppy disks they occupy.
LOL

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: bplus on December 08, 2021, 08:33:22 am

Wow this guy was 7 around the time I switched from GW to QB and got into data basing. Did not understand the project he was working on, sort of sounded like what I was doing with QB and Batch files with DOS but not sure.

Be nice to really meet Scott with a little sample of code from him, hint, hint...

@TempodiBasic do the words ROM drive also ring a nostalgia bell?

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: FellippeHeitor on December 08, 2021, 09:01:47 am

Here's Scott's QBSH: https://github.com/vwbusguy/qbsh

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: STxAxTIC on December 08, 2021, 10:19:03 am

Right to the good part: https://github.com/vwbusguy/qbsh/blob/main/qbsh.bas (https://github.com/vwbusguy/qbsh/blob/main/qbsh.bas)

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: TempodiBasic on December 08, 2021, 10:37:54 am

@bplus
ROM...
I associate it with BIOS, bootstrap and firmware!

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: bplus on December 08, 2021, 11:00:54 am

Thanks @FellippeHeitor and @STxAxTIC  that is a little bit of what I was doing with DOS Batch files a sort of Navigator file mgr including reading and running. Also reminds me of a Chatbot trying to answer questions and do things for user, time, calc, jokes... like a PA.

@TempodiBasic
I remember CD ROM's as the next place after books that Encyclopedia's went before Internet took over all that.

Title: Re: ✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E05: Interview with Scott Williams, from California
Post by: George McGinn on December 08, 2021, 04:48:28 pm

How about RAM drives?

And I remember when you needed to mortgage your house just to buy an EPROM programmer, if you knew what one was and did!

Quote from: bplus on December 08, 2021, 08:33:22 am

Wow this guy was 7 around the time I switched from GW to QB and got into data basing. Did not understand the project he was working on, sort of sounded like what I was doing with QB and Batch files with DOS but not sure.

Be nice to really meet Scott with a little sample of code from him, hint, hint...

@TempodiBasic do the words ROM drive also ring a nostalgia bell?

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