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flamethrower00
June 14th, 2000, 05:41 PM
i need a qbasic decompiler...if ya know where i can get one, email me or post the address here.

thanks,

Noah

pcpage3
June 18th, 2000, 12:19 PM
The best place to ask is at www.qbasic.com, (http://www.qbasic.com,) so go back their and ask someone with current QB knoweldge.

I asked the same question three years ago. The reply was no. However, perhaps some third party software has been developed since then. B-Czar and shellreef are the only ones on that board with old and current knoweldge on Quick Basic and Visual Basic. If it's out on the net, they're the first to know. So, drop either one a personnel E-mail.

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Monkey
June 19th, 2000, 09:16 PM
I've been a Monkey TOOO long to know better.

What you're looking for is a disassembler that will translate the hex to assembly. From there, you could use Code Warrior to translate to C or Pascal.

A geek of the monkey family thought it would be cute to write a QB decompiler. However, it would never decompile more than 15 lines and do...loops with conditional counters replaced the for...next function. Other substitutions applied since the hex code does not reference the type of function used, but instead, the axioms that
compose the function.

If you need to edit out bugs and you lost your original copy, then I would suggest disassembling the *.exe and taking an internet crash course on 8086 assembly. It's not that hard once you can count in hexadecimal and have easy access to interrupt, memory address, processor protocols, and BIOS access information.


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