

Q: What's the be-all-and-end-all way to be running this qb45 download in this real-stupid real-version of the real 21st century? so, in light of this, sorry about the revision process above, but to restate the question: The modern "computer" is a hard-drive, with an operating system, playing out through the peripherals, as opposed to the old stuff which was actually a giant super-calculator, with some amusing extra features like a speaker or 4 colour output (including BLACK!) for example, in the early days, an Apple][ just had a floppy drive, heaps of fun features (kept us amused 30 years ago) and if anything went "wrong" you just switched it off and back on again, because there were no "hard drives" around to store viruses/worms/Trojans/botnets/whatever's-next onto.

(*)first: obviously downloading quickbasic, QB4.5 or similar for today's modern equipment is a risky thing, so the question is not so much "should I risk it" but what _exactly_, step-by-step, should I please do in order to fix everything when it DOES go wrong? <-I think it's inevitable, and programming experience teaches us when we get into random-file-accessing, using machine code, that we just should always have a "spare" computer to mutilate the poor mind of, and have an easy way to reset it quickly. 16th may 2016 201605161513hrs, standard superstardate.ĭunno who I am talking to out here in the reeling world,īut can anybody just please answer my question, in fact, it would be nice if everybody had a go at answering it, and actually, on second-thoughts, it's turned into two questions, or maybe three, or more.
