v0.6.0-beta

[boxgaming]

Try out the release online here: https://qbjs.org

Release Highlights

File I/O Support

Support has been added for standard QBasic file input/output. QBJS now has a virtual file system that supports most file system operations. As part of this update there is now a File tab in the console to manage the virtual file system. Files can be dragged into the currently selected folder and downloaded by clicking the file name.

What is supported so far:

• INPUT, OUTPUT, APPEND and BINARY file modes

What is NOT supported yet:

• RANDOM file mode

Project Support

Now more complex projects can be managed and shared in QBJS. There is a new toolbar which allows you to open and save either individual .bas source files or a .zip file containing an entire project. Additionally, you can share publicly published projects with the src parameter. Here are a couple of examples:

• Simple Project Example
• Sleighless

Expanded Set of QB/QB64 Keywords

25 new keywords have been included with this release. See the full list below.

Release Notes

Fixes

• Update Input and Line Input to convert returned values to appropriate type
• Line statement errors when no color parameter is specified but the subsequent B/BF parameter is
• Fully support variable type suffixes in function/sub parameters.
• Fix Line Input error

Enhancements

• Add support for virtual filesystem to support File I/O methods (APPEND, BINARY, INPUT, OUTPUT)
• Add support for loading and saving a project from a zip file containing the main source and dependencies stored in the virtual file system
• Add support for additional QBasic/QB64 Keywords
  • _CWD$
  • _DirExists
  • _FileExists
  • _OS$
  • _StartDir
  • ChDir
  • Close
  • EOF
  • Files
  • FreeFile
  • Get
  • Input (file statement)
  • Kill
  • Line Input (file statement)
  • LOF
  • MkDir
  • Open
  • Print (file statement)
  • Put
  • Name
  • RmDir
  • Seek
  • Write
  • Write (file statement)
  • XOR (bitwise)

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