Compile QB64 code on older OSs?

[lawsonm1]

Just wondering out loud here; and I'm guessing I'm just barking up a tree. But, is it possible (as in some compile switch), to compile QB64 code to run on an old DOS or 16 bit Windows environment? I've got an old Advantech fanless panel PC that I'd like to try something out on. I don't have the embedded WinXP OS for it, but I do know it runs DOS just fine. So I'm thinking of finding some novel use for it. I know GW-BASIC works on it, but I'd like to be able to run something from QB64. Thanks, Mike

[TerryRitchie]

You can download Windows XP embedded here:

https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftWindowsXPEmbedded_201803

[Pete]

Check the QB64 download archives. I'm not sure when the change occurred, but I recall the earliest versions of QB64 SDL worked for awhile in Windows 98. At some point, I believe Rob added newer keywords and 98 support fell off. That's the way I remember it, but I don't know if the archives here go that far back. Still, you'd have some possible bugginess to put of with and missing QB commands, as these were very early attempts to make QB64 QBasic compatible.

Pete

[keybone]

Check the QB64 download archives. I'm not sure when the change occurred, but I recall the earliest versions of QB64 SDL worked for awhile in Windows 98. At some point, I believe Rob added newer keywords and 98 support fell off. That's the way I remember it, but I don't know if the archives here go that far back. Still, you'd have some possible bugginess to put of with and missing QB commands, as these were very early attempts to make QB64 QBasic compatible.

Pete

I dont know about Windows 98, but SDL 0.936 is the last version that runs on my windows 2000 vm.