Troubleshooting!
This little section is designed to help you with installing and
playing your qbasic games!
1)My sound does not work:
Answers:
A)If SBMIDI is present in the directory or is needed go to the
MS-DOS prompt program and run SBMIDI.EXE, simply by typing:
C:\QBASIC\SBMIDI.EXE [RETURN](and other applicable sound drivers)
or whatever the directory that you have the program located.
*NEVER RUN SBMIDI OR ANOTHER SOUND DRIVER UNDER A SHELL
(i.e. by clicking or running the program out of a dos shell all
sound drivers must be loaded in a dos shell)!
B)Double check to make sure your sound card works.
C)Your sound card may not be sufficent enough to emulate a sound
blaster environment, buy a new sound blaster compliant card.
D)Run the programs setup utility.
E)Turn the speakers on or the sound up.
2)I get a call error when running a file.
Answers:
A)If you use Quickbasic 4.5 run it this way: QB.EXE /L the
L stands for library. That fixes most of the problems.
B)If you use QB 1.1 then try using Quickbasic 4.5 or PowerBasic.
3)Qbasic cannot locate a file!
Answers:
A)Make sure the file there exist!
B)Copy Qbasic.exe or QB.exe (for quickbasic 4.5 users) and
QB.ini to that specific directory and change the Set Paths
(located under Options) configuration all to the directory with
your program in it.
C)Sometimes B does not work so then you must copy the program and
files to the QBasic directory with your Qbasic files. You can
simply accomplish that by in DOS: COPY C:\Dir\*.* C:\Qbasic
(Dir is the directory with all your files in it and Qbasic is your
Qbasic directory) and in Windows select all the files , left click,
then drag the files to the Qbasic directory.
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