QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64

Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by cr0sh on Friday February 23, 2018 @12:17PM (#16447679)

I started programming in Microsoft BASIC on my first computer - a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16K of RAM. I used a cassette tape drive for storage, and a television for my "monitor".

That's where it all began. Upgrades were done (went to 64K of RAM, also got a floppy drive and printer - then later the Color Computer 3, which was upgraded to 512K, and the CM-8 monitor - oh, there was a 300 baud modem in there somewhere too).

Amazingly, I still have all of my old machines, and they all work (except for my printer - it was the CGP-220 ink jet printer, and the heads are clogged completely, and no way to fix or get ink cartridges for it).

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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by russellbeattie on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:02PM (#16448452)

Nice! Fellow old-timer here! I still have my original TRS-80 CoCo as well. A few years ago I wanted to extract my first programs and realized I could convert my tapes to .wav files and load them into an emulator on my Mac. This is the post I wrote about it (complete with source code): http://rb.io/blog/letter-defender-my-big-program-from-30-yea...

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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by alyandon on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:34PM (#16449328)

I have fond memories of my CoCo and poke 65495,0.

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