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QB64 Discussion / Two books offered for price of shipping
« on: July 29, 2021, 09:11:10 am »
Hi, about a year ago I offered one of these books for the price of shipping.  I got no replies for a day or two so I stopped looking.  I just noted there were several people that later responded.  I am sorry about that.  Since it has been a year, I am just going to reoffer these.  I am asking you to send a email so I don't screw up again.
The first is "Quick Basic programming for Scientists and Engineers" by Joseph Noggle.  It is hard bound (c) 1993, and comes with a cd of source code. 
The second is "Microsoft QuickBasic for Scientists", a guide to writing better programs.  It is paperback, (c) 1988.   If you are interested, send me an email at jrduchek@tularosa.net with your address and which one you would like.  I would like two people to get the two books. 
Thanks to these folks who are keeping a great language afloat!!!!!!!
John

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QB64 Discussion / Installing qb64 on a raspberry pi 3B
« on: May 11, 2020, 08:59:55 pm »
I followed these directions first which you have probably seen:

                   
I Installed QB64 on a RaspberryPi 3 B
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                                           Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:53 pm
                    I started with installing the library's from the setup_lnx.sh for Debian.
Code: Select all

ls
sudo apt-get install g++ libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-devI then came across this post at the QB64 Forum http://www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]/forum/index.php?topic=13926.0 

That indicated to change and add to top of the file qb64/internal/c/common.h Code: Select all
#define QB64_NOT_X86I then did ./setup_lnx.sh and it took in the order of 10 mins to complete with no errors.
Ran a simple program and it was ok.           

This did not work for me at first.  It would start to install and then crash after several minutes.     

I had installed xfce and it has a panel app that shows CPU use, memory use, and swap use.  I could see that when it crashed it had run out of memory and swap space.  I then found this link for increasing swap space.           

https://www.bitpi.co/2015/02/11/how-to-change-raspberry-pis-swapfile-size-on-rasbian/

If you follow these directions you can increase the swap space.  The pi above had 1GB of memory, and 100mb of swap as the default.  I raised it to 1024MB of swap and it installed for over an hour and then crashed, again out of swap space.  I increased the swap space to 2048MB and it installed successfully in a few minutes.  If you are not familiar with swap space, it is what the computer uses when it runs out of memory.  Basically it is a file on whatever you are using as a harddrive, in my case a 32GB usb stick.  It runs slower than memory, but gets the installation done.   
John


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QB64 Discussion / Re: QBooks for QB64
« on: April 03, 2020, 11:58:35 am »
I just posted a free book under a new topic, MS quickbasic for scientists.  Happy to send it to somebody.
John

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QB64 Discussion / Anybody want a book? Microsoft QuickBasic for Scientists?
« on: April 03, 2020, 11:56:02 am »
Hi everybody,
I have this book in my library,Microsoft QuickBasic for Scientists? A guide to writing better programs.  Copyright 1988.  It is in close to new condition.  If anyone is interested in it, let me know I will send it to you in the US if I have an address.

John

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QB64 Discussion / Re: C++ compilation failed
« on: March 24, 2020, 11:09:55 pm »
I loaded qb64 onto a windows 7 virtual box and recovered my data with no problem.  I then went back to my linux system, deleted the qb64 directory,  redownloaded qb64 and reinstalled it and the error went away.   It now works with no C++ error. Anyway thanks for the help.  I got my data!!
John

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QB64 Discussion / Re: C++ compilation failed
« on: March 24, 2020, 12:34:02 am »
Thank you both.  I know the code ran under quick basic years ago.  It is good to know it is not the code.  I think I will try reinstalling qb64 and see what happens.  Maybe even in windows in a virtual box.  I am actually more interested in recovering the data in the data file that it is trying to load, but if it doesn't compile, it doesn't load the data.  Thanks for your help!
John

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QB64 Discussion / C++ compilation failed
« on: March 23, 2020, 10:11:21 am »
I am running under Fedora 31 linux.  I am trying to resurrect an old qb45 program. 
Code: QB64: [Select]
  1. TYPE presdent
  2.     firstname AS STRING * 12
  3.     midinit AS STRING * 1
  4.     lastname AS STRING * 15
  5.     picname AS STRING * 8
  6.     party AS STRING * 12
  7.     startyear AS INTEGER
  8.     endyear AS INTEGER
  9.     bornyear AS INTEGER
  10.     dieyear AS INTEGER
  11.     bpcity AS STRING * 14
  12.     bpstate AS STRING * 2
  13.     age AS INTEGER 'age at which they became president
  14.     flady AS STRING * 12
  15.     vicepres AS STRING * 24
  16.     earlyact AS STRING * 50
  17.     presact AS STRING * 50
  18.     ancestry AS STRING * 14
  19.     profess AS STRING * 18
  20.     religion AS STRING * 14
  21.     rank AS STRING * 20
  22.     nicknam AS STRING * 46
  23.     alma AS STRING * 16
  24.     firsts AS STRING * 50
  25.     astrosign AS STRING * 12
  26.     general AS STRING * 50
  27.     buried AS STRING * 20
  28.     DTA AS STRING * 42
  31. DIM pres AS presdent
  32. OPEN "presdent.dta" FOR RANDOM AS #1 LEN = LEN(pres)
  33. INPUT "starting record"; i%
  34. i% = i% - 1
  36.     i% = i% + 1
  37.     GET #1, i%, pres
  38.     IF i% > 41 THEN CLOSE: END
  39.     PRINT i%, pres.lastname
  40.     tryagain:
  41.     LINE INPUT "buried: ", ax$
  42.     IF LEN(ax$) > 20 THEN BEEP: GOTO tryagain
  43.     pres.buried = ax$
  44.     a = pres.age
  45.     IF a = 0 THEN CLOSE: END
  46.  
  47.     PUT #1, i%, pres
  48. LOOP UNTIL pres.vicepres = STRING$(24, CHR$(0))
  50.  
  51.  

above is the code, and here is the error message. recompile_lnx.sh

#!/bin/sh
Pause()
{
OLDCONFIG=`stty -g`
stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0
dd count=1 2>/dev/null
stty $OLDCONFIG
}
echo "Recompiling..."
cd ../c
g++ -no-pie -w qbx.cpp  libqb/os/lnx/libqb_1_4_0001000000000.o  -D DEPENDENCY_NO_SOCKETS -D DEPENDENCY_NO_PRINTER -D DEPENDENCY_NO_ICON -D DEPENDENCY_NO_SCREENIMAGE -D DEPENDENCY_AUDIO_OUT  parts/audio/out/os/lnx/src.a parts/core/os/lnx/src.a -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lpthread -ldl -lrt -D FREEGLUT_STATIC -o '../../LOADDATA'
echo "Press ENTER to exit..."
Pause

any ideas on how to correct this would be appreciated
Thanks,
John

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