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by pjmlp 686 days ago
I am quite sure you would need QuickBasic proper for that, however I don't have the manual around to confirm that.
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QBASIC had the CALL ABSOLUTE statement for calling machine language code. It didn’t require QuickBasic, the QBASIC that can with MS-DOS had it. Also GW-BASIC had it before it. You store the machine code as a list of integers in a DATA statement.
If I remember correctly, you had to run qbasic.exe with a /L switch to load 3rd party library.