Remilia Scarlet Posted June 18, 2007 I was looking up documentation on QBasic today (I actually had a reason to use it!) and came across this rather silly video over at QBasic Station. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted June 18, 2007 I don't care how intentional it was; that was terrible. There is no excuse for that type of audiovisual sensual assault. This reminds me of the ubergeek students in my college who thought they were all that but ended up getting mediocre grades; their attitude pretty much matched the lyrics in this "song." 0 Share this post Link to post
Jonathan Posted June 18, 2007 If he's a Qbasic nerd, why does he keep going on about his programs compiling? 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted June 18, 2007 Jonathan said:If he's a Qbasic nerd, why does he keep going on about his programs compiling? It sounds like you're making a point but I'm not getting it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jonathan Posted June 18, 2007 AndrewB said:It sounds like you're making a point but I'm not getting it. You're obviously not enough of a Qbasic nerd. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted June 18, 2007 Who the Hell programs in QBasic anymore? 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted June 19, 2007 Danarchy said:Who the Hell programs in QBasic anymore? I said:I was looking up documentation on QBasic today (I actually had a reason to use it!)And I'm not all that proud of it either, but using something that was right there on the disk was a much quicker solution that setting up a cross-compilation environment for Linux->DOS. Anyways, some forms of BASIC that were related to QBasic did have compilers. GW-BASIC comes to mind, and I think QuickBasic through the PC BASIC Compiler. On a side note, it sounds like he used a Casio keyboard, or whatever they rebranded them when they were sold at Radio Shack. I recognize that snare drum. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted June 19, 2007 Jonathan said:If he's a Qbasic nerd, why does he keep going on about his programs compiling? Because in later versions of QBasic (ie not the free one that came with DOS), you could actually compile it out to an executable. Duh. You're obviously not a QBasic nerd. (I actually tried the compiler back in the day. Adapting the code's syntax to make it work under other basic compilers resulted in code that ran at least twice as fast. QuickBasic lol.) 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted June 19, 2007 I wasted many hours in high school programming ASCII-art games in QBasic... I've tried reading them now but I just end up getting a headache - apparently "qwerty" and "asdf" were fashionable variable names back in the day :) 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted June 19, 2007 Jonathan said:If he's a Qbasic nerd, why does he keep going on about his programs compiling? Real Qbasic nerds had the full commercial QuickBasic 4.5 version which included a compiler. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jonathan Posted June 19, 2007 fraggle said:Real Qbasic nerds had the full commercial QuickBasic 4.5 version which included a compiler. Yes, but QBasic is not QuickBasic. If he sang "my C programs are always object oriented", it wouldn't make sense just because C++ supports objects. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted June 19, 2007 QuickBasic can be referred to as QBasic. C++ can't as much be referred to as C, however. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted June 19, 2007 AndrewB said:QuickBasic can be referred to as QBasic. C++ can't as much be referred to as C, however. Not really. QBasic and QuickBasic are related, but different systems. I used to try to run QuickBasic code in QBasic, and it would occasionally fail. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted June 19, 2007 Even I used to have QBasic and compiled a few programs - and I know nothing of programming. I think my most complicated program was something that randomised the splash screens shown when Win3.1 started up. (I'd hacked a few win.com files to contain different images and the Qbasic program picked one at random.) Yeah, nothing special - I know. 0 Share this post Link to post
doom2day Posted June 20, 2007 There were multiple scenes where he WAS out of the house. More... well that would be different... Anyhow... I like Pascal a lot better. The structure seemed much more ... appealing. (Not only that but I spent countless hours trying to perfect the color scheme of my Turbo Pascal compiler) I actually enjoyed the song though. It wasn't the quality that is required to make the news or anything but it isn't a waste of time to watch. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lamneth Posted June 20, 2007 .. ... that video ... I am at a loss for words. 0 Share this post Link to post
Antidote Posted June 20, 2007 I want to play his game. It sounds fun. It sounds like: FastCrawl 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted June 20, 2007 Jonathan said:If he sang "my C programs are always object oriented", it wouldn't make sense just because C++ supports objects. *ahem* 0 Share this post Link to post
Inferno Posted June 20, 2007 doom2day said:There were multiple scenes where he WAS out of the house. More... well that would be different... Yeah I mean more often. 0 Share this post Link to post
TheDarkArchon Posted June 20, 2007 caco_killer said:That song was catchy. Pity the guy can't sing for shit. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted June 20, 2007 When I read QBasic I was instantly thinking of Cubase and it took me a few seconds to realise how wrong I was.. 0 Share this post Link to post