[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Getting Started

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From: Rich Love <richlove@...>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:18:59 -0600
I have that book. It included a CD with FutureBasic Release 7 from 2002.
It also, includes an insert with a story about the release of version  
7 and life on the Mississippi Coast in 2002.
Those were the good old days.

I have FB books back to 1992.
I have one called FutureBasic, Getting Started.
Copyright 1992, Zedcor, Inc.

Rich


On Feb 24, 2008, at 11:59 AM, maxclass@... wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Adri Mathlener wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> by accident i found FB. Very nice tool. But in the included archive  
>> i can't find the 'Getting Started'.
>>
>> Any pointers on  where i can download it?
>
> Adri,
>
> Welcome to the club. If you stay you are in for a great time. Hang  
> in there.
>
> Just select "FB Reference" from the help menu. This is a good place  
> to start along with the examples folder. All of this information is  
> currently being updated into a Wiki Book by a dedicated group of  
> people.
>
> This is probably not going to be of any help here, directly to you  
> Adri, but back in 2002, FutureBASIC release 7, Staz (Chris Stazney )  
> published a book under "An imprint of StazSoftware Inc., Shibumi  
> Press" titled "Switching To FutureBasic". This book is spiral bound  
> and beautifully printed with loads of examples and a complete walk  
> through on building an application from start to finish. Granted, it  
> is a little out of date in many places but I think any example built  
> from it would work just fine.
>
> No one ever mentions this book but I have kept it in the top right  
> draw of my desk for 6 years now and refer to it often. Maybe Staz  
> would provide some source to the book that could also be made into a  
> PDF document or something like that so that others could benefit  
> from the wealth of information it contains.
>
> Does anyone else out there have this book?
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Max Taylor
> The MaxClass Guy
>
>
>
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