Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I use the
version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond

"tomS" wrote:

> Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I use the
> version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond

It's hard to imagine *why* you would want to, but according to this you can:

http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.p...ticle&a=memory

However, consider Visual Basic instead. After all, there is a free version
of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express) for Visual Basic:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Have fun!

"MichaelHensley" wrote:

> "tomS" wrote:
>
> > Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I use the
> > version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond
>
> It's hard to imagine *why* you would want to, but according to this you can:
>
> http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.p...ticle&a=memory
>
> However, consider Visual Basic instead. After all, there is a free version
> of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express) for Visual Basic:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
>
> Have fun!
> Yes I use visual basic but this coarse I m taking is using qbasic. I like visual basic alot.thanks

"tomS" <tomS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "MichaelHensley" wrote:
>
>> "tomS" wrote:
>>
>> > Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I
>> > use the
>> > version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond
>>
>> It's hard to imagine *why* you would want to, but according to this you
>> can:
>>
>> http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.p...ticle&a=memory
>>
>> However, consider Visual Basic instead. After all, there is a free
>> version
>> of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express) for Visual Basic:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
>>
>> Have fun!
>> Yes I use visual basic but this coarse I m taking is using qbasic. I like
>> visual basic alot.thanks

If you are taking a course using qbasic, ask the instructor WHY!

Probably the same reason I had to take a course recently on the 8085
processor assembly language. When you learn to spell, you don't start with
whole words, you start with one letter. Once you understand the background,
the more complex structures are easier to fathom.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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>> "MichaelHensley" wrote:
>>
>>> "tomS" wrote:
>>>
>>> > Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I
>>> > use the
>>> > version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond
>>>
>>> It's hard to imagine *why* you would want to, but according to this you
>>> can:
>>>
>>> http://www.qbasicstation.com/index.p...ticle&a=memory
>>>
>>> However, consider Visual Basic instead. After all, there is a free
>>> version
>>> of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express) for Visual Basic:
>>>
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
>>>
>>> Have fun!
>>> Yes I use visual basic but this coarse I m taking is using qbasic. I
>>> like visual basic alot.thanks
>
> If you are taking a course using qbasic, ask the instructor WHY!
>
>

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Probably the same reason I had to take a course recently on the 8085
> processor assembly language. When you learn to spell, you don't start with
> whole words, you start with one letter. Once you understand the background,
> the more complex structures are easier to fathom.

On the other hand, you don't start with the Sanskrit alphabet.

I recently downloaded Qbasic71.zip which I swear was from Microsoft (maybe
the MSDN site) but can't find it now.

Works fine on W2003 so if you can't get something to work I will try and
find the download again - could u email me putting [personal] including the
brackets in the subject line... just use email address from here to remind
me.

Charlie

"tomS" <tomS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I use
> the
> version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond

Yes. No. Yes. depending on the version some things won't work.

tomS wrote:

> Can I use qbasic on windows xp?. Is it included in xp? . If not can I use the
> version from windows 98 on xp platform?. Please respond