One option you can try is to write a script that launches QBasic and loads/runs your program. Check out AutoIt. It will compile to an EXE. Something like the following should work:

$ret =...

Talk about multilingual! The "99 Bottles of Beer" song is coded in something like 900 different [computer] languages here:

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

Nathan.

A little note from...

No...the pendulum is swinging back the other way now. When was the last time that CPU clock speed doubled? As users continue to demand more functionality and more eye-candy multimedia, it will be...

Or you can install AutoIt. And you can optionally compile & compress your scripts too if you don't want to force your clients to download a runtime engine.

Some people have figured out how to do quite a good bit of processing work via batch files: ftp://137.193.64.130/pub/

Has anyone tried Rebol yet? The following is a GUI examp for Rebol/View:

REBOL [Title: "HW Example"]

view layout [text "Hello REBOL World!"]

Nathan.

Something to the effect of...

LEFT CLICK on the upper-left corner of the window...
on the pop-up menu, select Properties...
on the dialog, CLICK the Screen tab...
CLICK the "Full-screen" radio...

A few examples to show how easy this is to accomplish in Assembly Language:

A) Linux console using GAS:

.text
.global _start
_start:
movl $4, %eax
movl $1, %ebx
movl ...