Hi John, For a lengthy but fascinating account about QBasic start at this page in Carl Sabanski's web site:
http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/qbasic.html To read about how I used QBasic to generate sundial faces scroll down and click on Mac Oglesby. At the bottom of the page about my using QBasic, you'll find links to several of my sundial QBasic programs. Carl has done a fine job of presenting this material, I think you will agree. I still use my own programs for investigating sundials, most recently writing code to generate hours until sunset dials which have a polestyle rather than using a pointed post's tip as a nodus. Best wishes, Mac P.S. Yesterday I was modifying BASIC code (not QBasic, but an antique cousin, back when each line began with a line number) for a Commodore PET computer, which is being used by 5th graders. Did you ever hear of a "HURKLE?" That computer is handy for teaching elementary programming because the machine starts up with BASIC. >Sorry Mac, I am completely ignorant about Qbasic. I don't even know what it >is! > >John > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mac Oglesby [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 7:15 PM >To: John Carmichael >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Windows 7 and Dialing Software > > >Hi John, > >Thanks for that information. Do you have anything to say about using >QBASIC with Windows 7 in 32-bit or 64-bit PCs? > >Does anyone else on this list have information to share about QBASIC >in 32-bit or 64-bit PCs with Windows 7? > >Thanks for any help, > >Mac Oglesby > >P.S. It would also be interesting to hear from Macintosh users about >using popular PC dialing software, including, if possible, QBASIC, on >a Mac running PC simulation software. > > > > > > > >>Hello Dialists: >> >>For those of you considering using the new Windows 7 operating >>system, but are worried that your favorite dialing software might be >>incompatible, I have tested it with most of the popular dialing >>software and the results are good! I've tested it on both 32-bit >>and 64-bit systems. Here are the results: >> >>Windows 7 on 32-bit systems: >>Alemma 1.2 by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>Cardinal Directions Calculator by Precision Sundials- yes! >>Delta CAD 7.0 by Midnight Software- yes! >>Dialist Companion 1.1 by Fred Sawyer & Robert Terwilliger- yes! >>Orologi Solari 18.9 by Gian Casalegno- yes! >>Shadows Pro 3.1.1 by Francois Blayteron- yes! >>Sonne 2.20a by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>StundLin 1.02 by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>Sun 5.6 by R. Cernic- yes! >>Wall Declination Calculator by Precision Sundials- yes! >>ZW2000 1.2 by Fer de Vries-yes! >>ZW2000 2.0 by Fer de Vries-yes! >> >>Windows 7 on 64-bit systems: >>Alemma 1.2 by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>Cardinal Directions Calculator by Precision Sundials- yes! >>Delta CAD 7.0 by Midnight Software- yes! >>Dialist Companion 1.1 by Fred Sawyer & Robert Terwilliger- NO! >>Orologi Solari 18.9 by Gian Casalegno- yes! >>Shadows Pro 3.1.1 by Francois Blayteron- yes! >>Sonne 2.20a by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>StundLin 1.02 by Helmut Sonderegger- yes! >>Sun 5.6 by R. Cernic- yes! >>Wall Declination Calculator by Precision Sundials- yes! >>ZW2000 1.2 by Fer de Vries-NO! >>ZW2000 2.0 by Fer de Vries-yes! >> >>p.s. I've not seen any problems with Windows 7 so far. But it did >>take 4 hours to install the upgrade version on each computer! Be >>sure to update Windows at least twice after completing the >>installation and defragment. One immediate thing I noticed is that >>it boots up quicker than XP or Vista. The Media Center is greatly >>improved and very good if you like that sort of thing. >> >>John Carmichael >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
