| Rating | Review |
| Good | From: Radiance Used: > 7 years Comments: Way to support your opinion.. |
| Good | From: rliegh Used: 4 to 7 years Comments: Great language for learning as it is simple to get a functional program running very quickly and simply. I mess around with different languages and when they frustrate me (wich all of them do :) I come 'home' to Qbasic and relax by dashing off quick programs. The 'pros and/or cons' of this one are obvious. Pro: it's free and (?) ubiqitious and 'small' enough to get a grip on. the 'con' being you can't compile (speaking of qbasic, not Quick Basic here) and it has poor memory problems. I'd love to see an (GNU) implementation for linux, anyone up for it? ;) |
| Very Good | From: Jim Dubois Used: > 7 years Comments: I have been using the "pro" edition or qbx for about 9 to 10 years, have nothing but praises for the product. It has a few bugs, but generally it performs very well. In our firm we "create" support programs for accountants. |
| Awesome | From: Undisclosed Used: > 7 years Comments: Great |
| Very Good | From: Undisclosed Used: > 7 years Comments: I have used it for a very long time, I have also used some of its other variations [GWbasic, Basica, and what was once plain vinilia basic. Its a good language to use to get into prog. theory, for writing utilities in dos, for maniplulating Windows via dos and vice-versa] IT however requires extranieuos effort to support mice, colors beyond 255 and so on. But you can do a lot of development in it. ben using basic language since I was plugging away on a 4K-byte Color computer TRS-80 [used a 6809 processor] Now that brings back memories.. |
| Very Good | From: Paul Nelson Used: > 7 years Comments: Have used it for >10 yrs in industrial applications- it's running hydraulic test stands with 200 hp electric motors, a business system which is vital to ALL our production, mistake-proof applications involving parts bin lighting systems ... dynamite stuff. simpler and more direct than VB, a LOT easier to maintain by people with minimal computer skills. |
| Good | From: Undisclosed Used: > 7 years Comments: This used to be really good. I've owned it for many years it is a really strong and versatile version of basic . It age and platform it was designed for show though, 64k code segements, no real mouse support and slightly heavy applications (lots of extra bytes you really don't need). This was once THE BASIC for pc's but it is now an unsupported dinosaur. But, there are tons of examples out there, the basic language it supports is a good one and you can still find fans of this basic. |
| Very Good | From: Undisclosed Used: 2 to 4 years Comments: The site is an excellent place for QB information. Do you have any past article(s) on how to access a program's PSP area? If so, please e-mail it to me. Thank you!. |
| Very Good | From: DARodrig Used: 4 to 7 years Comments: Besides being BASIC, which is the easiest language for a beginner, it has very good native graphic support, separation of main program and subroutines and the best help section I've seen in a DOS compiler program. A true jewel from Microsoft. |
| Very Good | From: Nick Used: 4 to 7 years Comments: GREAT! I wish Microsoft still supported it, though. And I wish it weren't so attacked by anti-piracy obey-the-law do-it-right I-am-right people. |
| Awesome | From: ZANE DthWlkr the ZETA Lone Wolf Used: 6 months to 2 years Comments: I love it. I've been doing programming with it for 7 months now. It is a nice langauge for writing little utilities in. I use it for writing DOS utilities, game hacking tools, and experiments for a systems setups. Most of the utilities I will later port to a better langauge but QB 7.1(PDS) is a nice language for biulding them in first and working out the internals of it all. For hacking files such as *.mek files in mw2 mercs. PDS will probally be what a I write a hacking utilitie in for mw2.prj file, once I find the correct variable in it. Out, ZANE DthWlkr the ZETA Lone Wolf ICQ# 4 feel free to ICQ me |
| Awesome | From: Flexibal Used: 4 to 7 years Comments: I love it. |
| Good | From: Vv Used: 4 to 7 years Comments: QBasic is good if you need low-level DOS utils if you don't have a higher level platform like windows or xwindows installed. Also for beginners QBasic is a very advisable product to start with if you want to feel what is programming about without needing to read theory for days before being able to make some productive material. Though for todays current platform futures, Using QBasic for making games and interfacing applications is obsolete. |
| Very Good | From: Undisclosed Used: 2 to 4 years Comments: QBasic although old (very) provides a great start for beginners. It is pretty easy to use, but with most DOS based programming languages the graphics are poor. It helps beginners get used to BASIC and allows them to go on to higher programming languages such as Visual Basic and Visual C++. |
| Very Good | From: Undisclosed Used: 2 to 4 years Comments: Love the old basics. |
| Very Good | From: The_Raven Used: More than 7 years Comments: Great IDE and easy to build DOS appz. |
| Good | From: Undisclosed Used: 2 to 4 years Comments: It has a very good IDE for newbies. |
| Crap'ola | From: Undisclosed Used: < 6 months Comments: It sucks! |