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  • My VBDOS program stopped working!

    From Rod Pemberton@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Sun Feb 7 03:57:21 2021
    On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 20:35:30 -0800 (PST)
    Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> wrote:

    Hi!

    At this point, you're completely sane. Hurray!

    I have a program I'm creating for C users

    At this point, you're still completely sane. Yeah!

    using VBDOS 1.0, and,

    So, you're creating a program for C users which is coded in Visual
    Basic? Yup, unh-huh, okay, gotcha ...

    So, at this point, I'm thinking that you've /COMPLETELY/ lost it.

    Um, tell me now, just what would you do with a program that someone
    coded for VBDOS users using COBOL? ...

    FYI, I actually had to look up what VBDOS was: M$ Visual Basic.

    Anyway, I'm ROFL at the thought of this. Sorry if that irks you, but, hopefully, my question above got the point across.

    AISI, the only reason to /not/ code a program for C users using C to
    do so, is to bootstrap C code. Almost no one needs to ever bootstrap C
    code anymore, as everyone has access to a C compiler on every platform.
    Lack of ubiquity is another reason to not use VBDOS. Yes, it's true
    that the C users could port your program to C, if they wanted C code
    instead of VBDOS code. However, they'd find it much easier to start
    from nothing and recreate the functionality of your code, but entirely
    coded in C. It's very easy to take the inputs to a program and the
    outputs of a program and create new code that will do exactly the same.

    --
    Microsoft:"You can't fix it."
    Linux:"You can't compile it."

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 6 20:35:30 2021
    Hi! I have a program I'm creating for C users using VBDOS 1.0, and, lately, when I load it with VBDOS, VBDOS keeps displaying a Runtime error R6810 message and crashes. What can cause this?

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Sun Feb 7 14:11:07 2021
    On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 20:35:30 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! I have a program I'm creating for C users using VBDOS 1.0, and,
    lately, when I load it with VBDOS, VBDOS keeps displaying a Runtime error R6810 message and crashes. What can cause this?

    Stack overflow. Likely due to added TSRs, or the CONFIG.SYS' STACKS value
    has been decreased.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 30 04:31:31 2021
    The reason I think it's okay to code a C-targeting program in VBDOS is that the program performs functions for C. Now, I have a similar issue: I have a WinXP laptop at my mother's house with VBDOS installed under DOSBox, and, whenever I run VBDOS, the
    computer displays the same message. This doesn't happen on my Win10/64 laptop. I don't see any significant change in the .conf file. What could be causing *that*?

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  • From Robert Riebisch@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Thu May 13 21:59:09 2021
    Harry Potter wrote:

    The reason I think it's okay to code a C-targeting program in VBDOS is that the program performs functions for C. Now, I have a similar issue: I have a WinXP laptop at my mother's house with VBDOS installed under DOSBox, and, whenever I run VBDOS, the
    computer displays the same message. This doesn't happen on my Win10/64 laptop. I don't see any significant change in the .conf file. What could be causing *that*?

    Do you use different DOSBox versions/builds on the two computers?

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    Robert Riebisch

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 15 15:03:38 2021
    I don't think so.

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  • From Robert Riebisch@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Mon May 17 20:04:19 2021
    Harry Potter wrote:

    I don't think so.

    Did you check it?

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    Robert Riebisch

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 17 15:00:06 2021
    Both laptops have version 0.74.

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