how to start--revisited 2

[yanqui]

I appreciate all your helps. I run (walk, actually) a compaq presario, which came with win98 preloaded, and when I reformat my hd, I use the quick restore cd which had win98 on it. Can someone out there tell me how to snoop around on the cd and locate that oldmsdos file? This particular cd is a bit intimidating, since I just got the hd reformatted and the machine's running (walking) fine (slow, but fine).

 

[Guest_imported]

The Compaq restore CDs generally don't have those files on them. However, if you got a Win 98 Supplement CD with the computer, that might have it. If not, I'm sure a search on the Internet will get you a copy without a problem.

 

[NerfHerder]

I believe that brisray gave some useful information to answer your question in your previous thread. It may have been difficult to find in the ethical quagmire that ensued. You may want to go back and reread brisray's posts. You may even want to look at some of the links to the Microsoft legal information that that is included in those posts. Once you are ready to get a copy of QBasic then look at this link to the Microsoft website:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q135315

Scroll down to the bottom of the page under the heading Other Folder. Click on the "Download Olddos.exe now" link and you will download a file named olddos.exe. Once you put it in a folder by itself and expand it then you will find QBasic and a QB help file. And that chicken is fresh from Microsoft.

NerfHerder

 

[Alt255]

Hallelujah LOL! I think I saw the devil making snowballs.

Anybody know where Microsoft hid the self-extracting archives for QB PDS?

 

[austim]

yanqui,

OldQ is probably correct.

I have an ageing Compaq Armada laptop, which came with Win95 installed. There is no sign of Qbasic on the QuickRestore disc.

However, on the Win98 upgrade (supplied by Compaq), Qbasic.exe and Qbasic.hlp are in the \tools\oldmsdos folder. No sign of any compile program (eg BC.exe) unfortunately.

 

[logiclrd]

QBASIC and QuickBASIC look very similar, but they are in fact completely different programs with different source code bases. QBASIC was actually made *after* QuickBASIC, to the best of my knowledge, as a way to attract budding programmers to the QuickBASIC system. QBASIC was then bundled with DOS and people were encouraged to experiment with it. When they decided they liked it, they were told to buy QuickBASIC (typical Microsoft marketing scheme ).

QBASIC and QuickBASIC in fact interpret the code in completely different ways (and it is surprising to me even to this day that there are virtually no incompatibilities -- anything that runs in QBASIC will run in the QuickBASIC IDE).

Note that QuickBASIC interprets the code in a much better fashion than QBASIC, which is why it runs up to 10 times faster

Anyway, when you see QBASIC.EXE, don't expect to see anything else lying around. BC.EXE is part of QuickBASIC, which is QB.EXE.