Just BASIC Files Archive

There have recently been several posts regarding taking a screen shot of the users display, then saving them as BMP images. I offer this small demo.

Last summer, my wife and I took a trip to Carmel by the Sea and, of course, took several pictures. The one I used for this demo was at the College of ...

Really good code, Rutger. I like creating BMP images "on the fly" instead of including them as image files.

Nice job!

An assortment of playing card images, front and back, jokers too. Download the entire folder and use the cards in your blackjack, solitaire, or poker games.

Have fun!

Enter any two known values of a right triangle and the remaining values will be displayed for you.

Pretty good, Joshua. I changed two lines: ... which gave a better display on my monitor.[/code]

When I was a break-in craps dealer in Vegas, I thought learning to program would allow me to find a system which could beat the house and allow me to retire at 22. WRONG! There is no system to beat the house because the payoffs are always less than the probabilities against the player.

But people ...

If you're working with an animation in your program, you'll have to LOADBMP and UNLOADBMP for every frame of your animation. Why not use a numerical value as part of the filename for each image? This allows you to use a loop to load and unload your bmp and only type the LOAD UNLOAD command once ...

If you worked with the previous version of this program, you've probably noticed there is no routine to DELETE a record from your address book. Well, this certainly insures we don't lose the name and address of the person we knew in third grade, umpteen years ago! We want to build our address book ...

Hi! Thanks to all the others who have jumped in and assisted some of our users. Owing to family difficulties, I have not visited this post in nearly a year.... :oops:

Most of the problems described appear to result from PEBCAK. If any paths are included in your program, make certain they are not ...

A long time back, home PC's had very limited RAM resources. A DATA file allows you to work with extremely large records without using precious RAM.

Tasks can be developed in small snippets and your program can be built in a modular fashion. This zip file contains 3 code modules, a dummy data file ...

There has recently been a lot of discussion to create a personal address book using JB and random access file.

This is not the only way to create such an application, instead it is a learning vehicle to introduce you to random access files. When the program is run, you can choose individuals from ...

You hit the jackpot, Karra :!: This one reminds me of the original Space Invaders arcade game, running at warp speed! ROFL! I'm not much for playing games, but this one was fun and I can see you learned a lot while writing this program. Gazing into my crystal ball, peering around the crack (I bought ...

A simple txt file and bas program to load and sort using JB. Print the data to a Random File, load a new array and format output to a new Random File. Especially for beginners who may be working with files for the first time.

Okay, a full screen splash screen, actually, two screens with no title bar and no way to diminish them. Right click on the program icon in the task bar to close after the second image. No image is included in the file... it will draw the image by itself. When you unzip the package, the BAS file will ...

A DEMO program to perform several tasks new users have questions about. You will work with a file on disk, perform input/output to load two arrays, sort the arrays, then open your browser to display a web page listed in your file by clicking on the name in a combobox. A text file is included with a ...