Greetings and Felicitations

[TarotRedhand]

Hi, Newbie here. New to QB64 but not QB. Only discovered QB64 when I went looking for some form of BASIC for a Raspberry Pi 3A+. So now I suppose you want my programming history.

Around about 1982/83 I taught myself MS Extended Colour BASIC (Dragon 32) and 6809e Assembler. '89 I went to college as a mature student and picked up Pascal, Modula 2, 68010 Assembler, QuickC (discovered a bug in the compiler, but at least it was ANSI C), Zortech C++, Z. Still have my text books from back then. Post college picked up Quick Basic. In the late '90s I was on Fido Net and posted some QB code there (I still have the complete ABC archives - FWIW the ABC95 Reader can be configured to work in Win 10). From about 96 moved onto a Shareware version of Modula 2 and then VB Win. Lately just been coding in Neverwinter Nights scripting language. Then as I said I recently came across QB64. And that's about it.

BTW, that logo is (to my eyes at least) very Hawkwind  .

Question, Please how do I change my avatar?

TR

[SMcNeill]

User CP (top left, under the QB64 Flaming Turkey) is what you're looking for. (User Control Panel)

You'll see Change Avatar amongst the menus of the left.

[bplus]

<"Only discovered QB64 when I went looking for some form of BASIC for a Raspberry Pi 3A+. So now I suppose you want my programming history.">

You might be interested in George McGinn's thread on the Pi:
https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=94

Welcome @TarotRedhand and nice self introduction

[Pete]

Aha! Another potential member for my QB64+ Forum: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread...n=lastpost

Welcome @TarotRedhand

Pete

[bplus]

Hawkwind the music group from UK?

[TarotRedhand]

@bplus Yep. 53 years of playing (1969 - ?) with the same guy in charge (Dave Brock). Lemmy Kilminster's (Motorhead) first major band. I would have posted an image of the cover of their 11th album (Sonic Attack) but couldn't see a simple way to do it. Saves room I suppose.

@SMcNeill Thanks.

@Pete Saw it. Droll... Very Droll.

TR

[Pete]

Yep, that's me, ROFD. Rolling on the floor drolling.

Pete

[bplus]

Dang had to look up "droll", oh yes!

I could almost draw Sonic Attack album cover, Wings and Lightning Bolts at least, chrome edged? hmm...

[TarotRedhand]

That's just the front cover. On the other side it is done as a chromed badge/pin(USA?) with tiny ruby eyes.

TR

[Parkland]

@bplus Yep. 53 years of playing (1969 - ?) with the same guy in charge (Dave Brock). Lemmy Kilminster's (Motorhead) first major band. I would have posted an image of the cover of their 11th album (Sonic Attack) but couldn't see a simple way to do it. Saves room I suppose.

@SMcNeill Thanks.

@Pete Saw it. Droll... Very Droll.

TR

My dad played in that band at one time. His name is Paul he lives in Victoria BC now .

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I just ordered some orange pi boards gonna try to get them running qb64 when they show up.