Question about checksums(Primarily for Nach)

Qb_Master · Post by **Qb_Master** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:14 am

This is directed towards Nach, as he designed the program I'm discussing, however if anybody has any ideas/can help me out here, feel free to post.

Okay, Given the Qbasic program you have made, to calculate the checksums for zbattle.net(which you helped me out with not too long ago), I finally got the entire script working...on my computer. It seems, however, that most computers can't handle Qbasic, or anything Dos for that matter anymore. Because the program is made in Qbasic, it seems to be unstable on most computers above Windows 98. I was wondering if you knew how to port it to any other language that would be more suitable for Xp?

Any help would be appreciated(I still am a bit confused on how the checksums are actually calculated for Zbattle.net)

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:05 am

I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to rewrite in C or C++. How complicated is it?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:53 am

Providing your version of the qbasic interpreter doesn't help?
I think you can compile BASIC programs with QuickBasic, but that might not be freeware.

Rewriting it for Visual Basic would be another option...

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:02 pm

I think that QuickBasic is freeware now, but I'm not sure. At least the QuickBasic I have wasn't downloaded from some warez site.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:27 pm

Ah, that's a good point. QBasic was the free, pure interpreter version. QuickBasic was the compiler.

So, what version of QBasic do you have?

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:45 pm

QuickBasic was the best thing that ever that came free on the Windows 95 CD. I'm still waiting for an update to "Hover!" as well (second best thing).

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But yeah, the QB compliler "BC.EXE" is abandonwarez. My teacher, when I was attending High School in 1999, tried to get a set of licenses for the compiler, but Microsoft "no longer supported it (granted of course the copyright date for QB was 1988)".

Post by **Nach** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:51 pm

I compiled it with QBX 7.1 and then had no trouble running it on a variety of Microsoft OSs (including XP). QBasic is garbage.

DOLLS (J) [!] · Post by **DOLLS (J) [!]** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:02 pm

Port it to freebasic.

Qb_Master · Post by **Qb_Master** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:20 am

Oh, it's compiled...just I've had a few people complain that their computers said that they weren't 'suitable' to run that type of file.

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Question about checksums(Primarily for Nach)

Question about checksums(Primarily for Nach)

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