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Cool as this is, this isn't the QBasic that came with Microsoft DOS back in the day. It seems to be written in QB64 which is a modern BASIC distribution that retains compatibility with MS Qbasic.

E.g. to open the TCP/IP connection, this project uses the _OPENHOST function, which does not exist in the olden QB.

https://qb64.com/wiki/_OPENHOST.html

https://github.com/jamonholmgren/qub/blob/main/template/qub/...



In principle, you could build a web server in classic QBasic: although it has no native networking support, it supports loading and calling machine code functions written in assembly. So, you could write assembly code to call a DOS networking API (such as packet driver), and then use that to build a web server in classic QBasic. I expect the performance will be terrible, but probably someone will eventually do it (not me) just to show it can be done.


I am quite sure you would need QuickBasic proper for that, however I don't have the manual around to confirm that.


QBASIC had the CALL ABSOLUTE statement for calling machine language code. It didn’t require QuickBasic, the QBASIC that can with MS-DOS had it. Also GW-BASIC had it before it. You store the machine code as a list of integers in a DATA statement.


If I remember correctly, you had to run qbasic.exe with a /L switch to load 3rd party library.




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