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SMcNeill:
As you guys might know (if you don't, what the heck have you been doing -- hiding your head under a rock somewhere??), I've transitioned into a writer/novelist now that I've more or less officially retired here at the farm.  October to January still keeps me busy with farm life, but otherwise I've got the rest of the year free to indulge my hobbies however I want.

For ages, I've been promising, "Some day, I'm going to sit down and end up writing up some sort of overly complex and wordy manual for QB64 that everyone can laugh at and nobody will probably ever use!"

Well, I just so happen to be snowed in -- and have been snowed in for the last few weeks -- and my boredom and restlessness has now gotten to the point where I finally decided to sit down and start on this little project:  The QB64 Bible.

For now, all I've got is basically a write up about SCREEN 0 -- (and it's only about 14 pages long) -- but I hope it shows the style and format I'm shooting for here, and the information which I want to try and gather up into one easy to find and reference area.

Feel free to download it.  Study it.  Point out anything that seems unclear or imprecise, or that you just don't like, and offer any ideas of what you guys think should go into this little project.  I'm just starting on this, but if all works out, I can probably churn out a few hundred pages of nonsense by the end of the month (provided I stick with this project exclusively during that time), so at that point it might actually have enough information in it to become something that somebody, somewhere, might want to make use of sometime in the future.

Just remember:  This is a work in progress and is subject to any and all revisions, edits, changes, additions, and deletions -- at my whim and whimsey -- for the foreseeable future.

Dimster:
page 8 of 18 .... should "with AUTOMATICALLY" be "will AUTOMATICALLY" ? That just jump out at me as I was skimming thru, so it may be exactly what you wanted there.

Looks great Steve. You have always written in a very understandable voice. Unlike the religious Bibles of our day, The QB64 Bible should never come to an end as QB64 seems to evolve rather quickly. There are so many members pushing QB to do more in just about every facet of it's syntech.  Terry Ritchie's slant was on Gaming, from what I have read, your focus will be more a reference book for coders. I gather it will be more in depth than those old "For Dummies" books?

Anyway, you have a great start there, and not being a coder of game programs, I'd very much welcome this new Reference Tool Book.

Petr:
@SMcNeill

Nicely written, it reads nicely. I'm glad you started, I'm looking forward to continuing. I also learned a few things I didn't know about before.

wiggins:
Well done, as always, Steve!  Congrats on your retirement. 

SMcNeill:

--- Quote from: wiggins on February 01, 2022, 09:34:16 pm ---Well done, as always, Steve!  Congrats on your retirement.

--- End quote ---

I've been retired for a while now.  The problem is, I've just been too busy to notice it!

I don't do a lot of farming anymore, but I still have about a thousand projects going all on at the same time that I'm trying to work on and finish before I die.  I just don't think I'm ever going to catch up though!  By the time I end up finishing one thing, I've got six new things that I need to get around to sometime, adding to my ever-growing list of chores. 

But, I guess that's just what life is all about -- work until you die.   And then you just end up making work for other people!!  (The poor undertakers, grave keepers, preachers, tax men...)  /sigh!

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