Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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skystrick
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Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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I want to thank all the dudes who created FreeBASIC. I don't know your names, but I use your program every day and I love it!

Microsoft QBASIC is the only programming language I know. Having FreeBASIC means I can run a modern OS in 2017 but still write code in QBASIC syntax.

Thank you for making a Linux version!!

FreeBASIC is the only real way to code QBASIC syntax on Linux. Because of that I can run QBASIC programs on my serial dumb terminals!

This is all FreeBASIC:
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Thanks for this!!
dodicat
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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What is that bowl?
Pooch or sleekit feline?

You are not frightened of an accidental or deliberate spray among all those wires?

I echo your thanks.
srvaldez
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by srvaldez »

dodicat wrote:What is that bowl?
Pooch or sleekit feline?
from what's written on the bowl (MEOW) it's feline.
dodicat
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by dodicat »

Blimey srvaldez.
I'll be 69 in two weeks.
My eyesight must be going.
Trinity
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by Trinity »

I will echo the thanks too : A thank you very much also from me :-)

As for who have made FreeBASIC then I will put credits in the Window below here , but it can also be found at the lower part of this page (and in a readme file that comes with your FB distribution - look in directory of installation) : https://sourceforge.net/p/fbc/code/ci/master/tree/

And of course the web team , to the extend not credited elsewhere : memberlist.php?mode=team
And Wiki keepers , main keeper FXM : memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3944

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Credits

    Project members:
    - Andre Victor T. Vicentini (av1ctor[at]yahoo.com.br)
        Founder, main compiler developer, author of many parts of the runtime,
        FB headers (FBSWIG)
    - Angelo Mottola (a.mottola[at]libero.it)
        Author of the FB graphics library, built-in threads, thread-safe
        runtime, ports I/O, dynamic library loading, Linux port.
    - Bryan Stoeberl (b_stoeberl[at]yahoo.com)
        SSE/SSE2 floating point math, AST vectorization.
    - Daniel C. Klauer (daniel.c.klauer[at]web.de)
        FB releases since 0.21, C & LLVM backends, 64bit port,
        dynamic arrays in UDTs, virtual methods, preprocessor-only mode,
        miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
    - Daniel R. Verkamp (i_am_drv[at]yahoo.com)
        DOS, XBox, Darwin, *BSD ports, DLL and static library automation,
        VB-compatible runtime functions, compiler optimizations,
        miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
    - Ebben Feagan (sir_mud[at]users.sourceforge.net)
        FB headers, C emitter
    - Jeff Marshall (coder[at]execulink.com)
        FB releases since 0.17, FB documentation (wiki maintenance, fbdocs
        offline-docs generator), Gosub/Return, profiling support, dialect
        specifics, DOS serial driver, miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
    - Mark Junker (mjscod[at]gmx.de)
        Author of huge parts of the runtime (printing support, date/time
        functions, SCR/LPTx/COM/console/keyboard I/O), Cygwin port,
        first FB installer scripts.
    - Matthew Fearnley (matthew.w.fearnley[at]gmail.com)
        Print Using & Co, ImageInfo, and others, dialect specifics,
        optimization improvements in the compiler, many fixes and improvements.
    - Ruben Rodriguez (rubentbstk[at]gmail.com)
        Var keyword, const specifier, placement new, operator overloading and
        other OOP-related work, C BFD wrapper, many fixes and improvements.
    - Simon Nash
        AndAlso/OrElse operators, ellipsis for array initializers,
        miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

    Contributors:
    - 1000101
        gfxlib2 patches, e.g. image buffer alignment
    - Abdullah Ali (voodooattack[at]hotmail.com)
        Windows NT DDK headers & examples
    - AGS
        gdbm, zlib, Mini-XML, PCRE headers
    - Claudio Tinivella (tinycla[at]yahoo.it)
        Gtk tutorials
    - Chris Davies (c.g.davies[at]gmail.com)
        OpenAL headers & examples
    - Dinosaur
        CGUI headers
    - D.J.Peters
        ARM port, ODE headers & examples, Win32 API header fixes
    - Dumbledore
        wx-c headers & examples
    - dr0p (dr0p[at]perfectbg.com)
        PostgreSQL headers & examples
    - Edmond Leung (leung.edmond[at]gmail.com)
        SDL headers & examples
    - Eric Lope (vic_viperph[at]yahoo.com)
        OpenGL & GLU headers & examples, examples/gfx/rel-*.bas demos
    - Florent Heyworth (florent.heyworth[at]swissonline.ch)
        Win32 API sql/obdc headers
    - fsw (fsw.fb[at]comcast.net)
        Win32 API headers, Gtk/Glade/wx-c examples
    - Garvan O'Keeffe (sisophon2001[at]yahoo.com)
        FB ports of many NeHe OpenGL lessons, PDFlib examples
    - Hans L. Nemeschkal (Hans.Leo.Nemeschkal[at]univie.ac.at)
        DISLIN headers
    - Jofers (spam[at]betterwebber.com)
        ThreadCall keyword, libffi/libjit headers, FreeType examples
    - Jose Manuel Postigo (postigo[at]uma.es)
        Linux serial devices support
    - Laanan Fisher (laananfisher[at]gmail.com)
        FB test suite using CUnit
    - Matthew Riley (pestery)
        OpenGL, GLFW, glext, FreeGLUT, cryptlib headers
    - Matthias Faust (matthias_faust[at]web.de)
        SDL_ttf headers & examples
    - Marzec
        SDL headers, SDL_bassgl, SDL_opengl and SDL_key examples
        First file routines for FB's rtlib
    - MJK
        big_int header fixes
    - MOD
        wx-c, BASS headers; -lang qb support for built-in macros,
        "real" Rnd() algorithm
    - Nek (dave[at]nodtveidt.net)
        Win32 API headers
    - Plasma
        FMOD and BASS headers & examples
    - Randy Keeling (randy[at]keeling.com)
        GSL matrix example
    - Saga Musix (Jojo)
        BASS examples with sounds
    - Sisophon2001
        gfxlib2 fixes, Nehe OpenGL lesson ports
    - Sterling Christensen (sterling[at]engineer.com)
        Ex-project-member, author of FB's initial QB-like graphics library
    - TeeEmCee
        gfxlib2 fixes
    - TJF (Thomas.Freiherr[at]gmx.net)
        ARM port, GTK+, glib, Cairo, Pango headers & examples,
        SQLiteExtensions headers
    - zydon
        Win32 API examples

    Greetings:
    - Plasma
        Owner of the freebasic.net domain and main site hoster, many thanks to
        him.
    - VonGodric
        Author of the first FreeBASIC IDE: FBIDE.
    - Everybody that helped writing the documentation (and in special Nexinarus 
      who started it)
        http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=ContributorList
    - All users that reported bugs, requested features and as such helped 
      improving the compiler, language and run-time libraries.
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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skystrick
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by skystrick »

This is absolutely the most fun I've ever had coding!

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grindstone
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by grindstone »

dodicat wrote:I'll be 69 in two weeks.
Libran or Scorpius?
dodicat
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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Today grindstone
Scorpio.
fxm
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

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Only 66 (Aries).
grindstone
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Re: Thanks for FreeBASIC!

Post by grindstone »

Happy birthday, dodicat!
Mine was yesterday, 58 now (Scorpio, too).
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