STEP and DIR via QBASIC
Posted by
Jymmm
on 2005-06-21 09:58:25 UTC
Hi Jan,
Do you by chance have any more info on using BASIC in this respect?
Might be interesting for testing or just playing around a bit.
Jim...
FWIW...
Microsoft stopped including QBASIC with (iirc) Windows 2000.
It's available from the NT4 CD's for use with Win2000/XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258265
It is still a pure DOS application, so I'm not quite sure how it'll
run controlling steppers in a dos window.
I have NT4 CD here and would be willing to post it to the files section if
given permission to do so or if someone has a place they could post it,
zipped up, it's 317KB.
Here are the original files expanded from the NT4 cd and the zip file:
08/08/1996 18:30 254,799 qbasic.exe
08/08/1996 18:30 130,810 qbasic.hlp
08/08/1996 18:30 29,434 gorilla.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 46,225 money.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 12,314 remline.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 24,103 nibbles.bas
--------------------------------------------------
06/21/2005 09:47 316,847 QBASIC.zip
For authentication purposes, here are the MD5 signatures:
3651562e0a058e661e38a1e9e82afadb *gorilla.bas
1388197c59612cbb3df3adde3edf56ee *money.bas
8d133a769390956edb65182ef144e5a1 *nibbles.bas
cfe8a767cf1df5a35ce61839dbf09b74 *qbasic.exe
681c7c17ec72718b44e7b75fc97677ba *qbasic.hlp
8b5f2d01f0117e25dc158276e3382ea4 *remline.bas
6a02acd10e36a277db974b8752117f21 *QBASIC.zip
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Do you by chance have any more info on using BASIC in this respect?
Might be interesting for testing or just playing around a bit.
Jim...
FWIW...
Microsoft stopped including QBASIC with (iirc) Windows 2000.
It's available from the NT4 CD's for use with Win2000/XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258265
It is still a pure DOS application, so I'm not quite sure how it'll
run controlling steppers in a dos window.
I have NT4 CD here and would be willing to post it to the files section if
given permission to do so or if someone has a place they could post it,
zipped up, it's 317KB.
Here are the original files expanded from the NT4 cd and the zip file:
08/08/1996 18:30 254,799 qbasic.exe
08/08/1996 18:30 130,810 qbasic.hlp
08/08/1996 18:30 29,434 gorilla.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 46,225 money.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 12,314 remline.bas
08/08/1996 18:30 24,103 nibbles.bas
--------------------------------------------------
06/21/2005 09:47 316,847 QBASIC.zip
For authentication purposes, here are the MD5 signatures:
3651562e0a058e661e38a1e9e82afadb *gorilla.bas
1388197c59612cbb3df3adde3edf56ee *money.bas
8d133a769390956edb65182ef144e5a1 *nibbles.bas
cfe8a767cf1df5a35ce61839dbf09b74 *qbasic.exe
681c7c17ec72718b44e7b75fc97677ba *qbasic.hlp
8b5f2d01f0117e25dc158276e3382ea4 *remline.bas
6a02acd10e36a277db974b8752117f21 *QBASIC.zip
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:15:18 EDT__________________________________
> From: JanRwl@...
> Subject: Re: What makes step and dir?
>
> Dave: The SIMPLEST way is to use a PC with GWBASIC. You can OUT
> 888,N:OUT 888,0 Where N is a binary number that STEPS your drives after
> setting DIR. OR, you can use a machine-code patch do do that, which you
> simply CALL from BASIC.
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