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From: gswork
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:41

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Phred wrote:

> In article <430daced.12530523@news.btopenworld.com>, erewhon@nowhere.uk wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:16:21 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
> >wrote:
> ><snip>

> >If I'm correct in guessing that you have done no Windows programming
> >then I reckon your biggest problem is going to be getting a handle on
> >how Windows works
>
> Yeah.  You guess correctly.  And that could be a serious problem. :-(
> Mind you, if you don't actually *need* to write Windows programs, but
> just want to stick to more traditional BASIC stuff, maybe that can
> still be done okay?  (But then, perhaps I simply stay with PDS7.1?  My
> concern there would be whether it will remain compatible with Win XP
> and future such OSes.  At a guess, some of it may already be broken?)

As a way of continuing with the BASIC you are familiar with, but moving
on from 16bit DOS you could look at FreeBASIC, a 32 bit tool

http://www.freebasic.net/

I'd have to say that for the straight update to QB it's about the best
at this price!

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