I’m finally getting around to upgrading a couple of machines that I neglected to upgrade to Windows 10 during the free update. As I technically qualify for the still free update for those that util...

I “cut the cord” years ago and have been using Windows Media Center to record television for ages. It is with great sadness to see Microsoft drop Windows Media Center from Windows; however, that do...

Back in the day, Windows used to have an “audio input” that would be whatever was currently playing… also known as a “loop back”. Beginning with Windows 7, this “input” appears to have been removed...

After visiting Microsoft for the Microsoft MVP Summit in November, I was a bit “beat down”. I came to a somewhat difficult (and in my mind, somewhat shocking) realization. Current State VB is dea...

This is a “challenge month” where each participant will use GW-BASIC to build something “interesting” (something that works) from scratch in the hour and a half that is available. Each project wil...

Announcing a real home for the BASIC SIG meetings; this means that the meetings will actually happen every month starting August 4th (every first Tuesday)!!!! What makes this announcement even mor...

The source code for Checkers Solitaire is now available on http://GitHub.com/DualBrain/CheckersSolitaire; go check it out, fork it, play with it, contribute, share, give me a pull request! Lack of...

Hmmm… not sure I really ever thought that I’d ever be the person saying those words, however, the day has finally come… hell has frozen over… open source is now in my vocabulary and I am embracing ...

I’m writing more so as a reminder to myself… What I am trying to do is transition an older machine, one that is “semi-retired” but still contains some stuff that I need every once and a while for ...

Here’s the situation, you want to be able to build a console application and still take advantage of the asynchronous programming model available in the latest versions of VB (2012/2013). No matte...