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Greetings and Felicitations - TarotRedhand - 04-27-2022
Hi, Newbie here. New to QB64 but not QB. Only discovered QB64 when I went looking for some form of BASIC for a Raspberry Pi 3A+. So now I suppose you want my programming history.
Around about 1982/83 I taught myself MS Extended Colour BASIC (Dragon 32) and 6809e Assembler. '89 I went to college as a mature student and picked up Pascal, Modula 2, 68010 Assembler, QuickC (discovered a bug in the compiler, but at least it was ANSI C), Zortech C++, Z. Still have my text books from back then. Post college picked up Quick Basic. In the late '90s I was on Fido Net and posted some QB code there (I still have the complete ABC archives - FWIW the ABC95 Reader can be configured to work in Win 10). From about 96 moved onto a Shareware version of Modula 2 and then VB Win. Lately just been coding in Neverwinter Nights scripting language. Then as I said I recently came across QB64. And that's about it.
BTW, that logo is (to my eyes at least) very Hawkwind
.Question, Please how do I change my avatar?
TR
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - SMcNeill - 04-27-2022
User CP (top left, under the QB64 Flaming Turkey) is what you're looking for. (User Control Panel)
You'll see Change Avatar amongst the menus of the left.
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - bplus - 04-27-2022
<"Only discovered QB64 when I went looking for some form of BASIC for a Raspberry Pi 3A+. So now I suppose you want my programming history.">
You might be interested in George McGinn's thread on the Pi:
https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthread.php?tid=94
Welcome @TarotRedhand and nice self introduction
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - Pete - 04-27-2022
Aha! Another potential member for my QB64+ Forum: https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthread.php?tid=228&action=lastpost
Welcome @TarotRedhand
Pete
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - bplus - 04-27-2022
Hawkwind the music group from UK?
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - TarotRedhand - 04-27-2022
@bplus Yep. 53 years of playing (1969 - ?) with the same guy in charge (Dave Brock). Lemmy Kilminster's (Motorhead) first major band. I would have posted an image of the cover of their 11th album (Sonic Attack) but couldn't see a simple way to do it. Saves room I suppose.
@SMcNeill Thanks.
@Pete Saw it. Droll... Very Droll.
TR
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - Pete - 04-27-2022
Yep, that's me, ROFD. Rolling on the floor drolling.
Pete
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - bplus - 04-27-2022
Dang had to look up "droll", oh yes!
I could almost draw Sonic Attack album cover, Wings and Lightning Bolts at least, chrome edged? hmm...
RE: Greetings and Felicitations - TarotRedhand - 04-27-2022
That's just the front cover. On the other side it is done as a chromed badge/pin(USA?) with tiny ruby eyes.
TR