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From	"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
Newsgroups	alt.lang.basic
Subject	Re: Computer guesses your number
Date	2024-01-08 03:21 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<XnsB0F2CF1BED0C0auricauricauricauric@135.181.20.170> (permalink)
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Physfitfreak wrote:

> On 1/6/2024 1:30 PM, Auric__ wrote:
[snip]
>> No, don't bother. I suggest using DOSBox or one of its derivatives
>> instead. I use DOSBox-X:
>>
>>    https://dosbox-x.com/
>>
>> ...but note that it doesn't come with QBasic. *That* you'll need to get
>> from elsewhere; I recommend WinWorldPC:
>>
>>    https://winworldpc.com/product/qbasic/1x
>>
>> Extract the downloaded .7z to any folder on your system and run
>> qbasic.exe in your emulator of choice.
>>
>> (Note also that this only applies to 64-bit versions of Windows (and
>> non-Windows systems); 32-bit Windows 10 should be able to run DOS
>> programs without issue.)
>
> I downloaded and installed DOSBox-X, then got QBasic 1.0 from
> winworldpc.com in the form of one disk image file. Tried to undisk it
> but I keep getting there's no room in Z: drive. Qbasic.exe is only about
> 250 KB, it's help file is about half the size, and the image file is
> about 1.5 megs. So I don't know why it runs out of space in that virtual
> DOS.

Extract the disk image to a folder (I suggest a new one), mount that folder 
as the C: drive, and then try again from there.

-- 
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