Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Poland
Original Message > Sorry to off topic, but I have a question related to Macs. > > I have several programs that I wrote in Microsoft QuickBASIC, version 1.00E, > on a Mac Plus. > > I would like to phase out the Mac Plus. could use the space. > > Microsoft QuickBASIC will not run on a PPC and M

Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-29 Thread Robert Poland
At 7:27 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Andrew Michael MacTao wrote: >Gregg Eshelmann wrote: > >Was for PC. You had to have QuickBASIC to run them >>since they weren't compiled. If you're interested >>in them, they can be found on some of the emulation >>sites. :) Just note that on anything with a sub >>800M

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No on topic responses. Guess I owe Microsoft an > apology; I've been > badmouthing them for years cause they dropped > QuickBasic. Looks like > I was the only one who ever bought it. No wonder > they dropped it. I've seen at least two 8bit Nintend

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Poland
At 1:33 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >--- Robert Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No on topic responses. Guess I owe Microsoft an >> apology; I've been >> badmouthing them for years cause they dropped >> QuickBasic. Looks like >> I was the only one who ever bought it. No wo

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:33 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >I've seen at least two 8bit Nintendo Entertainment > >System (NES) emulators written completely in MS > >Quick BASIC. At the time, the author of one > predicted > >that it would need a 1Ghz PC to r

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Poland
At 4:11 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >--- Robert Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 1:33 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >> >I've seen at least two 8bit Nintendo Entertainment >> >System (NES) emulators written completely in MS >> >Quick BASIC. At the time, the au

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Gregg Eshelmann wrote: >Was for PC. You had to have QuickBASIC to run them >since they weren't compiled. If you're interested >in them, they can be found on some of the emulation >sites. :) Just note that on anything with a sub >800Mhz CPU they'll be slow. The version of QuickBASIC that came

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregg Eshelmann wrote: > >Was for PC. You had to have QuickBASIC to run them > >since they weren't compiled. If you're interested > >in them, they can be found on some of the emulation > >sites. :) Just note that on anything with a sub > >800M