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Offline xra7en

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Thank you Thank you Thank you QB64
« on: March 13, 2021, 08:05:06 am »
I was really bored last night, long day at work, didn't feel like programming, gaming was nothing interesting, and prob wouldn't stay focused on a book, so went back to trying to figure out how to display an ANSI screen from my BBS days.

Failing miserably I went back to RTFM THEDRAW.DOC, and all I saw was for PASCAL.  The method was close to QB64, but I was having trouble converting it. So read some more - keep in mind the doc was written in the 90's,

CTR-F search fun began
"QBASIC" nothing
"QUICK BASIC" nothing.
"BASIC" boom!! there it was.

"BLOAD" Did QB64 have it? YES!

So just to test, whipped up a simple title screen (using THEDRAW)
And below is the result.

1 simple line does the trick
Code: QB64: [Select]
  1. BLOAD "filename.bsv"
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And just in time for the weekend .. gonna go through all my apps and give them some eye candy.

So many thanks for having that command available.


« Last Edit: March 13, 2021, 08:06:31 am by xra7en »
I just like re-writing old DOS book games into modern QB64 code - weird hobby, I know!

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Re: Thank you Thank you Thank you QB64
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2021, 01:48:17 pm »
BLOAD was also available in QBasic. Yes, Pascal is similar. I made a few programs in it, when QBasic lost support. But then, QB64 came along, and I haven't looked back.

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