{"id":15438,"date":"2019-04-20T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2019-04-20T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T01:16:18","slug":"just-what-2019-needs-the-qbasic-online-help-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/just-what-2019-needs-the-qbasic-online-help-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Just what 2019 needs: the QBasic Online Help Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dosbox-qbasic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dosbox-qbasic.png 1023w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dosbox-qbasic-160x106.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dosbox-qbasic-320x211.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dosbox-qbasic-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><figcaption>QBasic (from olddos.exe) running nicely under dosbox on Linux<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Only umpteen years late, I bring you the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/\">QBasic Online Help Index<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/\">https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the QuickHelp file from Microsoft&#8217;s ancient-but-still-useful QBasic interpreter for MS-DOS. I converted it to HTML, and made some minor cleanups so it would work better on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you&#8217;ve got a hankering to understand the parameters for <a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/T00AA.html\">MKSMBF$<\/a> or know the syntax of <a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/T0043.html\">PRINT USING<\/a>, I&#8217;ve got your back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only umpteen years late, I bring you the QBasic Online Help Index \u00e2\u20ac\u201d https:\/\/scruss.com\/qbasic_hlp\/ It&#8217;s the QuickHelp file from Microsoft&#8217;s ancient-but-still-useful QBasic interpreter for MS-DOS. I converted it to HTML, and made some minor cleanups so it would work better on the web. So if you&#8217;ve got a hankering to understand the parameters for MKSMBF$ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15440,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}