QB64.org

[bplus]

Someone bought the old QB64.org link!
https://qb64.org

[doppler]

Someone bought the old QB64.org link!
https://qb64.org

After reviewing the new "owners" of the old qb64.org link.  Only one thing came to mind immediately:
Star Trek The ultimate computer. quote of Richard Dystrom "Getting famous off my work"

Any takers of whether they provide a link to get qb64pe version for there course work.
The developers here get no credit and will prob get dissed too.

[DSMan195276]

Interesting, I did not know it went up for sale Frustrating to see.

That said the website itself looks like it's just AI generated nonsense, those "courses" definitely don't exist.

[bplus]

First theory I've seen says it's all AI also!

[Kernelpanic]

Normal business practice. But now something should be done to stop the operators from passing off the QB64pe version as their own and making money from it.
Is Steve the only person responsible for QB64pe? But that doesn't matter, what is important now is legal advice. Is there free legal advice or something like that in the USA, no matter where?

The first thing that comes to mind here is a corresponding cease and desist declaration to tacitly pass off QB63pe as one's own work. In addition, there must be a note on the page in this case, that QB64 is an independent development of the PE team. 

[a740g]

Well, that certainly looks shady to me.

[SMcNeill]

Honestly, I don't know if it's involved with the QB64 Project in any way, shape, or form.  Even IF someone were to sign up and pay to learn these courses, I don't know if you'd actually learn anything QB64 Related.

Let me point out a few things I've noticed from their site: https://qb64.org/creating-data-managemen...with-qb64/

String Manipulation: Working with strings (text) is a key part of many data management applications, whether you’re handling user input, file paths, or names. Functions like strreplace allow you to easily find and replace specific text within a string, making it easier to clean or format data as needed. For instance, if you’re importing a dataset and need to replace commas with semicolons, you can use strreplace to automate that process.

There is *NO* function called strreplace in the language. Not in our language. Not in Cory's version. Not in the originial. They're highlighting a function that doesn't exist as a means to automate a process for whatever language they're using, but it's not a function in the QB64 language.

Getting Started with QB64
To get started with creating your own data management applications, you’ll first need to download qbasic 64. Fortunately, it’s easy to get started with a QBasic 64 download. Once you’ve installed QB64, you can begin experimenting with file handling, string manipulation, and other features to build your first data-driven application.

Notice also, later down on that page, when they talk about the download, they're talking about a QBasic 64.... That's not QB64 -- not that I've ever heard of anyone refer to it as.

So we have commands promoted that aren't part of QB64, and we have a download name "QBasic 64" which isn't associated with the language...

I'm thinking anyone buying into this is going to be buying QBASIC 64 and not QB64. It's definitely not someplace that you'll ever hear me endorsing people to go or turn to to learn the language. My personal recommendation -- avoid it like the plague.

IF, however, one of you guys is crazy enough and has enough spare cash sitting around to sign up for these courses, share some screenshots and testemonials for us. I'd love to learn I'm wrong and it's an above board site dedicated to helping folks learn the language. I just *really* don't believe that's the case at all with it.

[Pete]

Well, it's Halloween so maybe it's like those Halloween stores, you know, here today gone tomorrow!

It could also be Spriggy's AI "Jessica" bot trying to put some cash together for their future. Some one needs to let her down, easy.

Pete

- Kamala is for they and them. Trump is for you and I!

[JRace]

Basic has no strreplace, but AutoHotkey does, so this is just an unproofed AI hallucination and the site is a cashgrab scam.

[Steffan-68]

Just look at the first teacher there. ( Travis Stephens) Or  ( Harvey Weiß ) https://qb64.org/ 

And now this one ( Thomas Humphrey) https://www.thepopnetwork.org/
And this one   (FFlorian Maur )  https://www.stalys.de/florian-maur/


What is his real name now?