As you guys might know (if you don't, what the heck have you been doing -- hiding your head under a rock somewhere??), I've transitioned into a writer/novelist now that I've more or less officially retired here at the farm. October to January still keeps me busy with farm life, but otherwise I've got the rest of the year free to indulge my hobbies however I want.
For ages, I've been promising, "Some day, I'm going to sit down and end up writing up some sort of overly complex and wordy manual for QB64 that everyone can laugh at and nobody will probably ever use!"
Well, I just so happen to be snowed in -- and have been snowed in for the last few weeks -- and my boredom and restlessness has now gotten to the point where I finally decided to sit down and start on this little project: The QB64 Bible.
For now, all I've got is basically a write up about SCREEN 0 -- (and it's only about 14 pages long) -- but I hope it shows the style and format I'm shooting for here, and the information which I want to try and gather up into one easy to find and reference area.
Feel free to download it. Study it. Point out anything that seems unclear or imprecise, or that you just don't like, and offer any ideas of what you guys think should go into this little project. I'm just starting on this, but if all works out, I can probably churn out a few hundred pages of nonsense by the end of the month (provided I stick with this project exclusively during that time), so at that point it might actually have enough information in it to become something that somebody, somewhere, might want to make use of sometime in the future.
Just remember: This is a work in progress and is subject to any and all revisions, edits, changes, additions, and deletions -- at my whim and whimsey -- for the foreseeable future.
UPDATE: There's a little more in there now than just SCREEN 0 stuff. The above was a copy/paste from the first page of the old topic from the past forums which we had, and I'd already posted several additions and updates to the work from then till when everything was shut down.
For ages, I've been promising, "Some day, I'm going to sit down and end up writing up some sort of overly complex and wordy manual for QB64 that everyone can laugh at and nobody will probably ever use!"
Well, I just so happen to be snowed in -- and have been snowed in for the last few weeks -- and my boredom and restlessness has now gotten to the point where I finally decided to sit down and start on this little project: The QB64 Bible.
For now, all I've got is basically a write up about SCREEN 0 -- (and it's only about 14 pages long) -- but I hope it shows the style and format I'm shooting for here, and the information which I want to try and gather up into one easy to find and reference area.
Feel free to download it. Study it. Point out anything that seems unclear or imprecise, or that you just don't like, and offer any ideas of what you guys think should go into this little project. I'm just starting on this, but if all works out, I can probably churn out a few hundred pages of nonsense by the end of the month (provided I stick with this project exclusively during that time), so at that point it might actually have enough information in it to become something that somebody, somewhere, might want to make use of sometime in the future.
Just remember: This is a work in progress and is subject to any and all revisions, edits, changes, additions, and deletions -- at my whim and whimsey -- for the foreseeable future.
UPDATE: There's a little more in there now than just SCREEN 0 stuff. The above was a copy/paste from the first page of the old topic from the past forums which we had, and I'd already posted several additions and updates to the work from then till when everything was shut down.
