to everyone: thanks for the warm welcome.
@frost: YES... you have the "airport clocks".

very attractive "airport clocks".

okay... I read about the part where you can add "debug" information at compile time
and it exposes variable names and increases file size

why cant  run from a "minimalist" linux setup? shouldnt my "freestanding" exe
fire up and execute even on some "micro" or "nano" linux?

a online buddy suggested I could "compile" in such a manner as to include the "graphics stuff" into the compilation??
to MY ears, it sounded similar to the DEBUG flags in the IDE...

I mean, why cant i make a graphical application, and its the little GUI for some tiny linux??
is what i am asking sane and coherent? i just want to run my C executable on (minimalist) linux

I have "general sound issues" with QB64 on Linux Mint
other linux mint users dont experience what i do
maybe i need to sudo apt get some stuff too?

I am fooling around with "large internal images" and how to use them.

there are 2 programs in the folder...
milliontest2 and milliontest3

#2 is a river-raid style demo of a vertical scroller.
Use the 4 arrow keys for other movement, but, the vertical "pull" is constant, like gravity
NOT a game, just the scrolling engine

#3 is a "SUB HUNT" type demo...
same IDEA, different image, you move around the sea map.

NOTE: I included a bunch of extra "maps" to play with
if you peek at the first couple lines of code? you will see where you change
how many vertical tiles and how many horizontal tiles

<esc> to exit both programs

Hi everyone... I'm back for a few days on the internet.
whoever else here says:

"I use parentheses for stuff like this !"

they are in agreement with me.
I intend to next use this thing when I want to do "algebraic notation; calculated fields"
on my database. I *think* as long as I use parenthesis, I will be fine to
for instance calculate sales tax.

PS - I myself would "routinely" use (-2) to represent negative 2 to avoid MY OWN confusion, regardless of what the compiler thinks.
I mean, as my own programmer? I want to just GLANCE at a screen of code and see what I was doing.

did you try compiling the BAS file?
(remember to use *EXE in the folder option)

it is *supposed* to do:

addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponent

if you peek at the code around line 120+ you will see where "any operation"
between 2 values, the operand could easily be inserted and the result calculated.
fairly easy to add math operations one at a time to get your library going.
I always stayed pretty "lean" and didnt ask it to do much beyond reduce algebraic.

What I do, is I check a string... and if it starts with a VARIABLE followed by an equals sign,
 then this module is a go.
If I am doing ARRAYS? I will want more than straight integer numbers, the end user
 of my software will expect to have algebraic equations for array indexes, like any programmer
 needs. This module?

well... its a STRING, and its surrounded by PARENTHESIS... the module automatically spits back the
 array index. If its a integer index, fine. if its a variable index, thats fine too. If the index of the array
 reference is an algebraic equation of existing variable assignments? Hey, it spits back the result.

if the STRING isnt a variable name followed by an equals sign?
Then its probably a COMMAND, and I would then search a list of commands in a string array.
take appropriate action.

NOTE: this is not "the actual code" I used twice before; I recreated it because I have done it a
  couple times before. If you can "trip it up" and prove it makes a parenthetical or order of operations error? That's good work on your part.