Hopefully not breaking the thread here - but I was curious about a post in part 1 by Pavane:

Date: 23-May-02 - 02:24 AM
M Ted I am sorry that for historical reasons, my programs are written in a language (originally in QuickBasic for DOS, now Visual Basic) which is not supported on the MAC. To port them would require a massive rewriting effort, as well as learning a new language and operating system....

I had thought Quick Basic (and probably VBasic) was readily portable to Mac. Since at least QBASIC was, or could be, output as an interpreted language, a Mac version of VBRun should be all that's required.

After a quick look at Mickey$oft websites, I was probably wrong, athough I found:

"REALbasic integration REALbasic is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating your own applications. It has a fully integrated visual development and debugging environment. To help you migrate from Visual Basic to REALbasic, you can copy and paste BASIC code from the Visual Basic editor to the REALbasic editor. A trial version of REALbasic is located in the Value Pack."

VB, QB, and even "REALbasic," do not appear to be available as separate packages for Mac, but how do you copy and paste "from the VB editor" if it's not on the (Mac) machine? Is there a low-watt VB editor in Mac Office like the one in Windows Office?

In other words, Mickey won't give you any straight answers, but the possibility exists that the conversion might not be a "major task" if you can find someone who is running a Mac (the above is from OfficeX - for Mac SysX machines) - who can be trusted to screw with your code or to help you through doing it.

I know that in the days of "plain vanilla" DOS BASIC, there were lots of "breakages" when you tried to run IBM's BASIC in Mickey's GW-BASIC, so it was a matter of "luck" whether things went well or turned to crap when you ported something - but it might be worth holding a little hope in hand...???

John