10-19-2022, 11:25 AM
As my old friend Kewbie once stated: "There is no such thing as a finished program." I actually tried to talk Rob into making a version of QB64 a finished program, but he wouldn't go for it. That was when QB64 was about 99% QuickBASIC compatible. Rob decided to not pursue translating DEF FN and couple of other keywords like FRE() and instead move on to adding the new underscore keywords. He could have declared the QB one "finished" and gave the underscore versions a slightly different name. PowerBASIC somewhat did that with PB and PB for Windows. Of course the downside is now you have to bug fix two products, instead of just one.
As for the .net website. Towards the end weird downtime started becoming an issue. This was the reason .rip got put together. Originally the Odin three only put it up when .net went down. I talked to Rob about the .net downtime and he related back some growing pains issues that required him to periodically fix the site to get it back up and running. It was around then I was able to talk Fell into keeping .rip up permanently and sure enough, a little time after that, .net went down again, and for the final time. A few years go by, and we then experienced the same repeat karma with .rip. Fell started experiencing similar downtime issues. He emailed me a script to use to reset it. The one time I had to go into the site to perform a reset, it failed. It failed because the site was being switched over. Shortly after, it got pulled and became .rip.
You know I think if I inherited the project, I'd just rename DQ BASIC, you know, for drama queen. I also think it would only support SCREEN 0, so the rest of you better hope that never happens! Kidding aside, I hope the other developers, going forward, take a break from the old karma, enjoy the project without breaking away, and realize they are all part of something that odds suggested never would have happened.
Pete
As for the .net website. Towards the end weird downtime started becoming an issue. This was the reason .rip got put together. Originally the Odin three only put it up when .net went down. I talked to Rob about the .net downtime and he related back some growing pains issues that required him to periodically fix the site to get it back up and running. It was around then I was able to talk Fell into keeping .rip up permanently and sure enough, a little time after that, .net went down again, and for the final time. A few years go by, and we then experienced the same repeat karma with .rip. Fell started experiencing similar downtime issues. He emailed me a script to use to reset it. The one time I had to go into the site to perform a reset, it failed. It failed because the site was being switched over. Shortly after, it got pulled and became .rip.
You know I think if I inherited the project, I'd just rename DQ BASIC, you know, for drama queen. I also think it would only support SCREEN 0, so the rest of you better hope that never happens! Kidding aside, I hope the other developers, going forward, take a break from the old karma, enjoy the project without breaking away, and realize they are all part of something that odds suggested never would have happened.
Pete