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This is my QBasic page. Not much stuff here, so don't get too exited. I don't know that there should only be one body tag, either, so if your browser complains, screw it.
This section contains all sorts of QBasic goodies. You can downlaod every single version of QBasic ever made! You can also downlaod a few Tutorials that I have selected from various sites on the internet and one that I wrote myself.. I also have a few nice example programs. QBasic/QuickBasic downloads and tutorials
Of course, what good website doesn't have a links section? QBasic/QuickBasic links
For discussion of QBasic/QuickBasic. Forum
Don't waste your time here. Just a guestbook. If you have suggestions, I would love to hear them. Just tell me what you think of my site. Guestbook
In the unlikely case that you are an idiot and you hadn't figured it out already, this website is about QBasic. Now that I have taken the idiot community into consideration, I can move on to all the fun stuff! Whether you are an idiot or not, you may or may not know what QBasic is. Many people who aren't idiots don't even know what it is! So I shall procede to tell you! QBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language. BASIC stands for Beginers All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was invented at Dartmouth college in the year 1963 by John Kemeny (1926-1993) and Thomas Kurtz (1928-) and was implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction. It was based on several older languges that were in use at the time. The original BASIC was intended to be an easy-to-use language for a new class of computer users that were created when new systems began apearing around this time.
The eight design principles of BASIC were:
BASIC spread like wild fire due to its of use and the fact that its inventors wanted it to remain in the public domain. Many variants of BASIC popped up in the years folowing its invention and the original BASIC became known as Dartmouth BASIC. It was small and simple and therefore was used on a variety of personal computers that began apearing in the 70s and 80s. if you would like more info on Dartmouth BASIC, just go to the Wikipedia entry for it: Wikipedia entry
Eventualy, Microsoft created a version of BASIC called QuickBasic for MS-DOS. There is a difference between Qbasic and QuickBasic. They are the same language, but QuickBasic is the version of the language that included a compiler or a program that could turn the Basic program into an executable or ".exe" file , which you could run separately from QBasic. Qbasic was the free version that was included with many older operating systems. You had to purchase QuickBasic separately.nowadays, you can still download QBasic for free off of the internet, in fact, it is availible on my site! However, the QuickBasic is illegal to download (even thoughMicrosoft probably doesn't care anymore, 'cause its so old!) but you can still get it as well if you just look araound. I can't offer it on my site because Freewebs.com doesn't want you to do any illegal activity on your website. And I would like to keep my website! :) So, If you are new to QBasic/QuickBasic, I hope you enjoy programming with it! Otherwise, I have on question: why did you bother reading this?
-Nick (NEWK) Warren
4:23 PM 10/5/2005
Freewebs.com says that I need a link back to their site here, becasue this site is hosted on freewebs.com so here's the link, they'll give you a nice, free website: Freewebs