For a peoples who are not familiar about this issue, here is a short brief.
Mac McLamore was highly appreciated member at the The QBasic Forum. He was helped beginners and experienced QBASIC programmers for ages. He was known about hes amazing skills with QBASIC and most of all, he’s friendly attitude for everyone. When ever there was flame war goin on, Mac usually was the one who managed to calm down the situation.
This article was last one from Mac. It is mostlikely written in time, when he knew that he would be die soon. Originally released at QBE #28.
See also The QBasic Forum Tribute to Mac McLamore
E.K.Virtanen
A Short Description of the Subforums of The QBasic Forum, the forum for QBasic.com by Mac
For years, The QBasic Forum has been dedicated to the QBasic language, and it so continues today. That’s the place to help newbies as well as to work out solutions with other senior QBasic programmers.
There are still schools with older equipment, especially in foreign places, so newbies will feed us a while longer.
If you love QBasic (I use QB1.0) and the challenge of solving problems within its limitation just to prove you can do it, The QBasic Forum rules!
Of course, I visit all the forums I can find and hop on any QB1.0 question I see. Unfortunately, many are dying. Hate that.
Anyway, that said, the fact is that there exists valid programming information in the world other than QBasic, so we have what we call “subforums”, places for other kinds of posts. Here is a list thereof, which can be found at http://www.network54.com/Index/10167
The Non-QBasic Forum
This is for any question or discussion regardless of language. ASM is often discussed. Also variations of C, FreeBasic, Operating systems (VISTA) and equipment. Whatever you want.
QB Forum FAQ & Samples
From The QBasic Forum, you can reach the QB_FAQ.
But the interesting thing here is that the FAQ is a forum. This means that if we have FAQ “How do you print” and the answer is “Use LPRINT”, anyone (we are a democracy) can post a response “But there are other ways” and post sample programs or whatever. It is a FAQ maintained by the public, not by some FAQ guru.
QB Tricks & Techniques
Sometimes you find a neat way to solve a problem and would like to share it. Of course, you can simply post that info at The QBasic Forum, but it would quickly scroll into the 10,000 pages of history. Tough to find later. So this forum is meant to have posts that the author thinks should be permanently easy to find.
QBasic Challenges and Projects
As you would guess, something to challenge the brain. Ideally, these would be “Solve this using QBasic”, but it’s not a restriction. We’ve had some good ones, including writing as a team a Kriegspiel Referee in QBasic 1.0 that is astounding. We had to make a special sub-sub forum just for that.
Programs you are proud of
Here a person such as petk010 can establish a thread such as “ProgramList petko10″ and describe himself if desired. Then, subordinate to that initial post, he would post QBasic programs (No EXE, etc.) that he was proud.
Why “ProgramList”?
It is to support the network54 search function. If you wanted to see programs by our QB guru TheBob, you would search for “ProgramList TheBob” (in quotes) and get it. “Program List” (with space) would get impossibly too many hits.
If you just search on “ProgramList”, you get all of the people who have created threads here.
Magazines and Other QBasic Forums
Just a place for your friendly SPAM. Maybe you have created a forum. It is also a place for announcements such as QB Express availability. It is a forum of its own so that the entries don’t scroll away.
Distractions
Sometimes we want to forget about computers and just rant about religion, politics, and philosophy.
Big Programs
This is a tool to support The QBasic Forum. You see, the forum has the option “View All” where all the posts on the current page can be opened simultaneous viewing.
That’s nice except when someone posts a zillion line program that makes it hard to use. It takes forever to get past the large programs. For that reason, we only allow reasonably small programs on The QBasic Forum. One would put the big code here and supply the URL in the main post.
QB64 Project
Recognizing that we need a version of QBasic that would run in the 64 environment, our hero Galleon has taken on this task and our regulars support him as possible. Anyone is welcome to download latest versions, try in various configurations, find bugs, etc.
Qbasic on Linux Club
Here reside people who want to get QBasic to work on Linux. People like neuro, mennonite, Ild?rest, Ted (Clippy), rpgfan3233, Michael Calkins, E.K.Virtanen and others, especially our special Pete.
Miscellaneous
If you can’t figure out where else to post.
For posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
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