Port Access on early Macs — #10

Post #10 by jukingeo

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 - 13:37
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/port-access-on-early-macs.19782/

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Dude, it's on their front page! Look under NEWS! FB II is Available for older Macs -- the download link is right there.

Ok, Ok...We are obviously talking about the same page. The Wiki references a link that takes you to a different site.

So I did a bit of my own digging and came up with this site:

http://www.stazsoftware.com/futurebasic/

This one doesn't work,

So I found THIS site next:

http://www.futurebasic.com/

Ok, so now I see Futurebasic II, but guess what happens when you click on the download link? You are directed to the site above...which isn't working. So throw me a bone here if the wiki for Future Basic doesn't send me to the right site in the first place!

I don't recall what the differences between 3.0 and QuickBASIC are, though I believe that QB is newer. QB is the one which I used on my SE/30 back in the day. 3.0 has separate versions for decimal and integer.
As for .hqx, that is an ASCII file encoding, so you'll need to decode that with BinHex or StuffIt and then there should be a .img file within. They are copies of my own disks if they had the orange star on the download page.

So is BinHex (or StuffIt)a program for the Mac ?

As for command list, I never had a manual for either 3.0 or QB, so I had to look at existing programs to learn the commands back then. Just recently, however, I was given the manual for QB, so I can make a command reference for serial ports if you would like.

Sure that would be great.

QB has an Examples disk which has a Terminal program, so you can also look at that.

Ok, thanx.

Geo