02-17-2023, 10:57 PM
It would have been interesting if QB64 had to emulate more of what only BASIC v7.1 PDS offered such as ISAM. 
I had a great book about "advanced" programming on M$ BASIC, first focusing on QuickBASIC for windows, menu, mouse and sprite libraries, then switching to PDS to discuss ISAM. Honestly I wished I could have done something about databases back then but I have not reformed and still badly organized about certain data aspects. Had bad experiences with SQL or relative with a music instrument plug-in called Applied Acoustic Systems Tassman. Tremendous modular synthesizer, one of the earliest but had a poor preset organization system that caused the program to crash on occasion, and no hope of extensively modifying the most complex patches. Eventually the Canadian company declined making a next version 5 with VST3 64-bit support. :/
I had a great book about "advanced" programming on M$ BASIC, first focusing on QuickBASIC for windows, menu, mouse and sprite libraries, then switching to PDS to discuss ISAM. Honestly I wished I could have done something about databases back then but I have not reformed and still badly organized about certain data aspects. Had bad experiences with SQL or relative with a music instrument plug-in called Applied Acoustic Systems Tassman. Tremendous modular synthesizer, one of the earliest but had a poor preset organization system that caused the program to crash on occasion, and no hope of extensively modifying the most complex patches. Eventually the Canadian company declined making a next version 5 with VST3 64-bit support. :/