Subforum for Free Basic

[aw27]

FreeBasic!!!!period

(I just liked challenges, but have not enrolled  )

[jimg]

Tried several variations of capitalization but no luck.   I running out of acceptable user names to try.

[jj2007]

https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=27943&p=267994#p267981

With special greetings from the FB administrator to the Masm32 administrator

The MASM forum registration asks 7 questions. I do believe it took me at least 10 attempts to pass the Q&A.

[jimg]

Thank you J.

Finally got registered, but they changed the question so it wasn't so hard on my feeble brain this time 

[hutch--]

The task of forum administration is the same as a janitor, sweep the floors, put the garbage out and retire any pests.

[daydreamer]

Hi Jochen,

The 32-bit version of Free Basic depends on as.exe to compile source code. It's the 64-bit version using gcc.exe. The default setup of Free Basic is easy and it does not pose problems. Let's see how Sarg's work will continue, he's doing a nice job.

yes,now I see one reason too,to have a freeBASIC forum,PROC ,ENDP syntaz that masm uses comes from BASIC,not C

[daydreamer]

a nice basic compiler would be nice

[Vortex]

Hi daydreamer,

You would like to visit these sites :

http://basic.mindteq.com/

https://bcxbasiccoders.com/

[jj2007]

FreeBasic ranks third in mindteq's user rating. The Bcx examples look nice, too. But it's a pity that most BASIC dialects nowadays are just frontends for C compilers

[aw27]

What's wrong with MASM and Assembly Language?
Very few people here are doing any ASM programming anymore. 

[hutch--]

That is probably true but these things tend to be seasonal, sometimes people have much to post, other times not so much so. I still have use of PowerBASIC but I am much more into the Power than the BASIC and this is mainly because it has a decent assembler built into it and it does API code with no problems. With 32 bit assembler, I can routinely swap mnemonic code between 32 bit MASM and PowerBASIC.

[avcaballero]

> Very few people here are doing any ASM programming anymore

I don't believe it. TinyC is an asm with macros. Many people here use masm+macros. I use asm regularly and don't use macros with it, for that I have tinyc. I must confess that usually is more confortably to me using c than asm, which does not mean that I have abandoned asm. Otherwise I would surely have left this forum. I hope that here never stop talking about assembler, which is why I think we all came here. 

[hutch--]

I imagine its the difference between a MACRO assembler and a compiler wrapper. 

[aw27]

It is normal to use ASM with other languages. Many languages allow it, mostly C/C++, Pascal and some Basic version.
I have done Basic in various flavours since Z80 cpu's, then VB 6 and also VB .Net but don't like it. It is too "basic", but I consider it practical for small endeavours, though.  What else about Basic. I don't recall. 

[avcaballero]

When I say I don't use macros I mean that I don't use them vastly, but I use invoke, proc, etc, so I also use them. I think that basic is an old language in which many great programmers have programmed and shared sharp programming knowledge, though basic was designed more for simplicity than for power.