I was trying to play with build.bas program from builgrid.zip, but when I'm trying to run it in QuickBasic with Shift+F5 (or Run->Start) all I get is a black screen.
Although I noticed that the program reads keystrokes (I can exit with ESC and I get some overflow errors if I run 'too far' with arrow keys), nothing is drawn to the screen.
When I try to make EXE from it I get the following: 0030 0D14 CALL loadtables ^ Data-memory overflow
Have I done something wrong? Please help me.
P.S. Thank you for releasing this program, it is the great thing to learn from.
Awesoken at
Re: build.bas program from builgrid.zip
It runs fine in QuickBasic 4.5, using either the XP command prompt or DosBox. Make sure you have PICS.DAT and PALETTE.DAT in the same directory as BUILD.BAS. You can't compile programs in QB that use a lot of memory. It's a limitation of the compiler.