Announcing QB64 Phoenix Edition v0.5 Release!

[Tim]

thank you for your work. is this version based on qb64 2.01?

If this was still under the plain QB64 name, this would be version 2.05, or so.  See my post explaining things here: Who and What is The Phoenix Edition (qb64phoenix.com)

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Pardon my ignorance, but what's the simplest way to transition from the old tQB64 to the new  one? Will I need to move my "home-grown" files, or anything else, into a new directory?

I think all you need to do is copy and paste. That is what I did. I left my old "qb64" file folder alone and made a new "qb64 phoenix v 0.50" folder. And I copied and pasted the new and my own "old" .bas files into it. Do get a second opinion, though!

That's one way to do things, and a lot of people do exactly that to keep things all together.  

Another, if you have all your files in a separate folder, is to be certain to click the "Output EXE to source folder" option under the RUN menu in the IDE.  Doing so will have your compiled EXEs stay with the source files, no matter where they're at.   In this manner, you can keep all your files in "My Documents/My BAS files/"  (or whatever other folder you like), and then simply load and compile the working EXE to that folder, so that all you have to do when it come time to upgrade is simply to download and extract the latest, greatest version of QB64 available. 

Thanks, Steve. That clarifies and simplifies things for me.