Hello all, I've been looking into Freedos lately as I plan to set up a computer that only runs Freedos. After some searches I found out that Freedos should run on modern computers, but it does so in 16 bit mode. So this question popped into my mind: If Freedos is a 16 bit operating system, how does ...

Are the preprocessor commands something that was part of the QBasic language, or were they added for FreeBasic? I'm just curious as I notice they are very similar to the C language.

I can confirm that the new link for Discord works. Thank you :-)

It seems that the Discord invite is invalid/expired. Does anyone have the correct one, or does the server no longer exist?

It's good to know that there is at least one active Facebook group in English (and German), even though personally I rarely use Facebook. Discord in my opinion is the best way to chat with other FreeBASIC users. Yes, the Forum is the best place for posting specific questions, but it is nice to just ...

I saw a very old post in the "News" section that addressed this issue. It is of course now 2020.

Is there any website (or similar) where FreeBasic users can engage in general discussion, whether on or off topic?

Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply.

I may join in editing the wiki in the future.

Just in the interest of having our documentation as polished as possible: In the "Using Libraries" tutorial, in the section "What are these Libraries, Anyway?", on line 3, 4th last word, "reigon" should be corrected to say "region". I can see that it was made ...

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No problem!

Just wanted to point out a small mistake in the 'Doing Some Math' section: Dim As Integer a, b, c a = 5 b = 7 c = a + b Print "a = "; a Print "a = "; b Print "a + b = "; c The 2nd last line should say: Print "b = "; b It's a small mistake, but it might confuse...