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Tag: qbasic

  • Modern BASIC: PCBasic and QB64

    Last month I had intended to make the next Sparcstation desktop post, but unfortunately have been having trouble getting the software I had intended to cover to build. So that’s still in the works and today we’re going to look at something else interesting: modern implementations of old BASIC Languages.…

  • QB Debugger Heroes for DOS

    I wasn’t sure whether I should include today’s game as a home brew as it’s creator, Gemini (Kris Asick), has produced commercial games. From the file date it was made sometime in November 2017. He made it using QBasic during a live stream, which is certainly interesting, unfortunately there doesn’t…

  • QBasic Gorillas

    Today I’m looking at the classic old artillery game Gorillas, it was an example program for the Qbasic interpreter that was packaged with MS-DOS 5.0 and later. Because it was so widespread, being on practically every machine of its time, it was widely played and loved by many. I first…

  • Qbasic

    Back when I was at high school we got some newish 486 workstations in our computer labs. Fortunately for me they had a copy of Qbasic on them which I quickly put to use. Qbasic is the language I primarily used whilst I was at high school, I wrote many…