Getting the SCREEN mode

[TerryRitchie]

Terry, one of the biggest conversion problems is DEFN. Galleon decided to punt on that one. To save on memory, I had a couple of large programs I had to convert 100s of lines to regular function calls. So that is probably the best example of code that could be run more easily on DOSBox than converting to QB64, if yo don't plan to use it much.

Now SHELL commands might be a horse of a different color. I can't recall if the earlier versions of DOSBox supported all SHELL commands or not. VAPTAR() PEEK and POKE statements no longer able to function on newer Windows OS's probably can't run on DOSBox, either, but I haven't kept up with that project.

One cool thing DOSBox does have is an Android version. You can actually run QBasic programs on Android through that version of DOSBox.

Pete

Yeah, I remember those discussions way back then about DEFN and your need to do a lot of conversion.