Or you could just temporarily enable the relevant exception in your code. Quick and dirty example: option explicit dim as double d1,d2 dim as ushort oldfpucw, fpucw, fpustatus asm fstsw [fpustatus] print "fpustatus = ";hex(fpustatus);"h" asm fstcw [oldfpucw] print "fpucw = &...

For a small app where I needed only minimal functionality I just replaced zlib.bi with this: #inclib "z" declare function compress2 cdecl alias "compress2" ( _ byval dest as Byte ptr, _ byval destLen as uLong ptr, _ byval source as Byte ptr, _ byval sourceLen as uLong, _ byval le...

QB will allow you to separate the printed items in a print statement with spaces or tabs, but IMO this was just another one of QB’s warts, and a feature that I think few programmers used.

Hi Jerry,

Row% and Col% are set regardless of the state of the mouse buttons. I think you need include the state of the mouse button in your “If Ke$ =” statement.

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The Microsoft reference is here.

Under Win i used SetPriorityClass (although i found if i run too long a test the machine hangs) The only hangs that I have encountered were with REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS, and this is why I use HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS instead. REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS causes your process to preempt too many important syst...

In [Multithreading OS]: Did you use a large enough sample run to elliminate the occasional spike due to task switchs? Using large samples is an effective method, but large samples mean long run times, and long run times mean that the results will include many interruptions. Another method is to col...

If you did not control the eax value on input to cpuid then this could explain the variation under DOS. I have seen some Intel example code where the author neglected to do this. As an example (this code does not bother to determine which cpuid functions are supported): '============================...

Hello all, Here is a set of FB macros for benchmarking code. Instead of returning the elapsed time, these macros return the elapsed processor clock cycles. When benchmarking code for the purpose of optimizing/tuning it, I find the elapsed processor clock cycles to be generally more useful than the e...

For what little the information may be worth, there is a narrow range of interrupts, starting with interrupt 50h, than can, at least normally, be used from a Windows program running under Windows 98 SE (possibly all Windows 9x, but I tested only 98 SE). The call will not generate a fault, it will be...

With the DOS32 version of FreeBASIC you can call interrupts using an interface that is very similar to that of the InterruptX routine for QuickBASIC. This is one of the examples from Version 0.13 Beta: '' '' simple DOS graphics example to demonstrate DOS-specific features '' Option Explicit #include...