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Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site

134 points by cardamomo 7y ago

rzzzt 7y ago
I used to visit the QBasic.com website around the early 2000s, it was also a trove of information. Was fun to dissect snippets that did raycasting or 3D wireframe animations. Interestingly, it seems that the website was re-purposed briefly in 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020524053704/http://qbasic.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020524053704/http://qbasic.com/ ...but in 2003, it returned to its regularly scheduled content: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207131457/http://www.qbasic.com/qbindex.shtml http://web.archive.org/web/20030207131457/http://www.qbasic....
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elderK 7y ago
Man, does this bring back memories :)
RickSanchez2600 7y ago
It is no longer maintained or updated. FreeBASIC can take QuickBASIC Code but it needs to be modified a bit. https://www.freebasic.net/ https://www.freebasic.net/ Visual BASIC is emulated via Jabaco and converted to Java Runtine files. http://www.jabaco.org/ http://www.jabaco.org/ but it hasn't been maintained in a while either. It does VB 6.0 but misses ADO and other libraries needed for Data access, you have to use Java based ones instead with BASIC syntax.
- jasonjayr 7y ago
  http://www.qb64.net/ http://www.qb64.net/ <-- IIRC that's supposed to be a fully backwards compatible + a bunch of modern enhancements to build QuickBasic/QBasic on modern platforms. UPDATE: .... And, I should read the link before commenting, because QB64 is mentioned right there nearly above the fold.
  - rzzzt 7y ago
    I used Pyxia's IBasic IDE (looks to be defunct) back in the day to build a game in Windows: http://web.archive.org/web/20070630082925if_/http://www.pyxia.com/index.php?option=content&task=section&id=5&Itemid=32 http://web.archive.org/web/20070630082925if_/http://www.pyxi...
- nickpsecurity 7y ago
  For VB alternatives, folks might be interested in Gambas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
  - cylinder714 7y ago
    And, for the sake of completeness, there is BaCon, a BASIC-to-C transpiler written in Korn shell, compatible with bash and zsh: http://www.basic-converter.org/ http://www.basic-converter.org/
vesche 7y ago
I posted some of the first code I ever wrote on these forums: http://www.petesqbsite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2357 http://www.petesqbsite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2357 I recovered it on some old hard drives a few years ago and backed it up here: https://github.com/vesche/snippets/tree/master/qbasic https://github.com/vesche/snippets/tree/master/qbasic Loved these forums as a young kid with nothing more than a windows 95 computer and a QBASIC interpreter.
- ashleyn 7y ago
  This is an interesting view into Qbasic's longevity; your posts are from 2007, long past its release date of 1992. The suite itself predates popular use of the Web by a handful of years and yet the community's size seems to have peaked long after its release. I've been able to trace an active Qbasic community all the way to 2011.
  - vesche 7y ago
    It was also a pure accident that I started programming at all. This was 2007, I had inherited an old Windows 95 computer that was recycled from my Mom's law office where she was a paralegal. She let me rig it up in my bedroom as a teenager and I somehow discovered it came with QBasic 1.1 installed on it. I didn't know anyone who coded or programmed, and I learned everything from browsing around Pete's. I later discovered Python from the same forum, and well- I'm still coding 12 years later.
    - ashleyn 7y ago
      How I got started: the "big kids" at school showed me how to play Qbasic Nibbles on our school computers, circa 1999-2000. I remember the first things I did was try to add "cheat codes" to Nibbles, and then use PRINT/INPUT to make a joke DOS prompt. About three years later I get a hand-me-down Windows 95 machine with Qbasic on it, and I set out to make my own "operating system". This was actually a pretty popular thing to do at the time...here's an entire website full of 'em, where I published my own MS-DOS GUI as a teenager: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Today, I do very well as a senior developer wearing multiple programming hats at my company and I'm close to cashing in some of that stock to develop my own video game. It all started with Qbasic.
ashleyn 7y ago
There's never been anything quite like Qbasic. Bundled with the OS, providing clear and relatively foolproof syntax, with an ability to get graphics onscreen extremely quickly. Plus, an amazing and decently large community of amateur game makers who grow up to be the next generation of professional developers. I struggle to conceptualise a modern form of it - something that's perhaps a cross of Hypercard, Visual Basic, and Unity.
- ido 7y ago
  Not to mention great "online" (i.e. integrated into the IDE) help with useful examples and simple explanations.
  - cblum 7y ago
    I spent many hours of my childhood in that help system :)
    - malux85 7y ago
      me too! <3
  - craz8 7y ago
    Microsoft help systems were great back then. Which was good, as there was little online documentation, and what was available was expensive to access with per-minute dial-up fees I remember a version of MS C in the late 80s coming with 5,500 pages of printed documentation! And it was easy to find what you needed
    - ido 7y ago
      i agree. imagine my disappointment upon installing Redhat Linux 5.2 in 1998 (from a CD-ROM that came bundled with a magazine!) and naively trying the man pages for documentation.
    - badsectoracula 7y ago
      And Borland's help systems too. Sadly today with (internet) online documentation things are still not as good - even if often there is more information, it is scattered all over the place, often repeating (parts of) itself and slow to find and access. The main reason why i prefer to have a WIN32.HLP file from (i think) some Borland product whenever i need some Win32 function than search Google for it for MS Docs (the test is 99.9% of the cases the same anyway). Also why i have Zeal[0] installed with the docs of a few things i use and i download offline copies of whatever specs and documentation i can find for other things. But in terms of help systems, i think CHM was the peak (in terms of functionality - the HTML-based content is a bit of unnecessary overhead and something like HLP's hypertext should have been good enough, but Microsoft wanted to shove IE4 everywhere so they can claim it was an integral part of Windows 98 back then). [0] https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/
craz8 7y ago
It’s interesting that QBasic was thought of as a beginners or gaming language In the early 90s, I worked on a bond trading floor in London, and we used QBasic for production systems. It was quite fun to work with, and pretty powerful with the right libraries. This was all in Dos as it was before Windows 3 was released, and getting everything to work in 640k was fun (I recall there was a system to page in and out different parts of the app, but my memory may be faulty on this part)
- ashleyn 7y ago
  Part of the appeal Qbasic had to me as a kid, was that I read that it was occasionally used in a professional capacity. So this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use language had the added cool-factor of being "real stuff". I don't think something like Gamemaker or Scratch would've had the same appeal - they'd just feel like baby's toys to me, whereas with something like Qbasic you knew you were actually doing "real" programming.
  - craz8 7y ago
    It was certainly real stuff - less than 5 years later I was part of the team that shipped Windows 95 (but I was a C programmer before QuickBasic, so that helped)
- h2odragon 7y ago
  The QB 4.5 / PDS 7.1 compilers (linked on that site) were actually decent. Coupled with some of the ASM libraries available at the time there were crazy possibilities. I had a background/TSR file transfer utility in 1989(?) written in QB 4.5 and assembler for the fun stuff. (Never commercialized, the boss said "the computer still has to be on to receive things? that's useless") There were numerous vertical market applications developed in QB/ PDS; things we'd call CRM today all the way to "estimate how many passes this scraper will take to build an earth dam of this size and shape" tools. Microsoft forsaking that toolchain in favor of Windows / Visual Basic put a lot of those shops out of business.
- redisman 7y ago
  It had a very accessible core graphics API which was (and still is) really rare.
JaDogg 7y ago
First of all, Thanks. Hats off! Learning BASIC made me a better human. I learned x86 ASM, Win32API all thanks to freeBASIC and VB6. I think the best decision I've made in young life (13-14 years old) is learning BASIC, which made me the developer today.
carl8 7y ago
Back in the late '90's there was the All BASIC Code (ABC) repository, which was a large collection of the best Basic code at the time. Some of my code made it there. Found this copy here: https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive I used to be active on the QB FIDOnet forums in the mid-90's until many of the BBSs shut down. It was my favorite language during my teen years!
analognoise 7y ago
I'm reading Anders E. Zonst's "Understanding the FFT" second edition, and the programs were originally in GW-BASIC. I have since installed qb64 and PCBASIC, and find the book really amazing; consequently I find the language superior for simple exposition - there's an insane amount of positive things you can say about taking a supposedly complex subject and breaking it down with a language that is that simple - if you truly understand a thing, you can implement it in a language as simple as BASIC in a clear way, taking the mystery out of it. How hard can it be if it you can implement it on something with a Z80, right? Brilliant, and odd timing that this is on HN right now.
- beetwenty 7y ago
  There are a few rough edges in old BASICs(and they have been smoothed out in pretty much every one that's shipped since 1990 or so) but the practical truth is, to implement most code in a readable form, you don't need a great deal of expressiveness, syntactical sugar, or structured flow control, but you do need a few common data types and features to work with them, and even vintage BASIC does that much. This is what people mean when they say that languages haven't progressed that much. There are places where they have(e.g. dynamic memory allocation features really do matter to large-enough, featureful-enough programs) but almost all the features can be dispensed with for the base case of solving one problem well. The tooling and ecosystem matter a great deal more since they make the difference between having a finished solution in hand and having to fight to get something built and deployed. I/O and protocol compatibility are major sticking points everywhere.
- 0815test 7y ago
  Well, as some people say: you can write FORTRAN in any language! And BASIC is just substandard FORTRAN.
klez 7y ago
Heh, this brings back memories :) I'm another one of those who learned their ropes in QBasic, circa 2001. A substitute teacher told us about logo and my 13-year old mind thought you just need to type the commands on the windows desktop to make it work. Imagine my disappointment when it didn't work. So one day we're at my dad's friend home. Their son puts a floppy in, starts a weird blue application, loads a file called GORILLA.BAS and starts the program. Then I understand what's going on: that's something you can write your programs in! Copy that floppy and give it to me! One of my school books had a basic BASIC tutorial so I started typing useless code. Then I discovered RapidQ which was superficially like VisualBasic but didn't cost a dime (at least, that's how I remember it...). So I could make GUIs using a drag&drop interface. Good times :)
tomduncalf 7y ago
Ah man, QBasic makes me feel nostalgic! My first experiences of programming were with ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro BASIC when I was 5 or 6 or so but that was just simple IF this PRINT that type stuff, or copying listings from books. QBasic was where I first started realising you could do some really cool things with the combination of your brain and programming! I remember a teacher at school used to let us use the computers at lunch to play with QBasic and being very proud of working out how to draw a BMP file (in the days before we had Internet access)... and then a pupil in the year above blowing that completely away with a demo he’d written with pseudo-3D graphics and everything. He later got expelled for writing some kind of boot sector virus and installing it on the school computers. Wonder what he is up to now!
greypowerOz 7y ago
i wrote my first commercial program in Qbasic.. good times :)
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neandrake 7y ago
I was introduced to QBasic by a friend in the mid/late 90's and spent a great deal of time on a community called NeoZones. The site allowed people to showcase their work, tutorials for learning, forums for talking with everyone else -- there was always something to dig into and such fun. I've never experienced a developer/programming community like that since. I hope there are still communities like that out there and would love to find some to be part of again.
- IndigoFox 7y ago
  At some point there was a fork of NeoZones into NeoBasic. Last I checked, NeoBasic.net still had forums, but only long time regulars barely post. It looks down today, sadly.
teilo 7y ago
I was using QuickBasic before there was a QBasic. (QuickBasic compiled to an executable for those who are unfamiliar with it.) Made some money with it as a teen programmer. I built a menuing system modeled after Automenu (by Magee Enterprises), but with an easier to follow config format and more flexibility. It ended up being popular enough to sell in my little corner of the DOS universe. Sold it on floppy disk at a local computer store.
IndigoFox 7y ago
I spent a lot of time with Pete on ICQ in the late 90s. He really taught me a lot of basics (heh) about programming back then, and his community was great. Many regulars from his site and NeoZones/Neobasic are still in contact with each other, and it's crazy seeing what some people do now, like release TurboGrafx games.
Razengan 7y ago
QBasic was probably the first language I wrote something in from start to finish. It was an attempt at a clone of Deflektor [0]. Before that, I never really got anywhere on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, though I still hope to go back in an emulator and make up for that someday. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzA8NdXEB2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzA8NdXEB2M

134 points by cardamomo 7y ago

I used to visit the QBasic.com website around the early 2000s, it was also a trove of information. Was fun to dissect snippets that did raycasting or 3D wireframe animations. Interestingly, it seems that the website was re-purposed briefly in 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020524053704/http://qbasic.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020524053704/http://qbasic.com/ ...but in 2003, it returned to its regularly scheduled content: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207131457/http://www.qbasic.com/qbindex.shtml http://web.archive.org/web/20030207131457/http://www.qbasic....

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elderK 7y ago

Man, does this bring back memories :)

RickSanchez2600 7y ago

It is no longer maintained or updated. FreeBASIC can take QuickBASIC Code but it needs to be modified a bit. https://www.freebasic.net/ https://www.freebasic.net/ Visual BASIC is emulated via Jabaco and converted to Java Runtine files. http://www.jabaco.org/ http://www.jabaco.org/ but it hasn't been maintained in a while either. It does VB 6.0 but misses ADO and other libraries needed for Data access, you have to use Java based ones instead with BASIC syntax.

jasonjayr 7y ago
http://www.qb64.net/ http://www.qb64.net/ <-- IIRC that's supposed to be a fully backwards compatible + a bunch of modern enhancements to build QuickBasic/QBasic on modern platforms. UPDATE: .... And, I should read the link before commenting, because QB64 is mentioned right there nearly above the fold.
- rzzzt 7y ago
  I used Pyxia's IBasic IDE (looks to be defunct) back in the day to build a game in Windows: http://web.archive.org/web/20070630082925if_/http://www.pyxia.com/index.php?option=content&task=section&id=5&Itemid=32 http://web.archive.org/web/20070630082925if_/http://www.pyxi...
nickpsecurity 7y ago
For VB alternatives, folks might be interested in Gambas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
- cylinder714 7y ago
  And, for the sake of completeness, there is BaCon, a BASIC-to-C transpiler written in Korn shell, compatible with bash and zsh: http://www.basic-converter.org/ http://www.basic-converter.org/

vesche 7y ago

I posted some of the first code I ever wrote on these forums: http://www.petesqbsite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2357 http://www.petesqbsite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2357 I recovered it on some old hard drives a few years ago and backed it up here: https://github.com/vesche/snippets/tree/master/qbasic https://github.com/vesche/snippets/tree/master/qbasic Loved these forums as a young kid with nothing more than a windows 95 computer and a QBASIC interpreter.

ashleyn 7y ago
This is an interesting view into Qbasic's longevity; your posts are from 2007, long past its release date of 1992. The suite itself predates popular use of the Web by a handful of years and yet the community's size seems to have peaked long after its release. I've been able to trace an active Qbasic community all the way to 2011.
- vesche 7y ago
  It was also a pure accident that I started programming at all. This was 2007, I had inherited an old Windows 95 computer that was recycled from my Mom's law office where she was a paralegal. She let me rig it up in my bedroom as a teenager and I somehow discovered it came with QBasic 1.1 installed on it. I didn't know anyone who coded or programmed, and I learned everything from browsing around Pete's. I later discovered Python from the same forum, and well- I'm still coding 12 years later.
  - ashleyn 7y ago
    How I got started: the "big kids" at school showed me how to play Qbasic Nibbles on our school computers, circa 1999-2000. I remember the first things I did was try to add "cheat codes" to Nibbles, and then use PRINT/INPUT to make a joke DOS prompt. About three years later I get a hand-me-down Windows 95 machine with Qbasic on it, and I set out to make my own "operating system". This was actually a pretty popular thing to do at the time...here's an entire website full of 'em, where I published my own MS-DOS GUI as a teenager: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Today, I do very well as a senior developer wearing multiple programming hats at my company and I'm close to cashing in some of that stock to develop my own video game. It all started with Qbasic.

ashleyn 7y ago

There's never been anything quite like Qbasic. Bundled with the OS, providing clear and relatively foolproof syntax, with an ability to get graphics onscreen extremely quickly. Plus, an amazing and decently large community of amateur game makers who grow up to be the next generation of professional developers. I struggle to conceptualise a modern form of it - something that's perhaps a cross of Hypercard, Visual Basic, and Unity.

ido 7y ago
Not to mention great "online" (i.e. integrated into the IDE) help with useful examples and simple explanations.
- cblum 7y ago
  I spent many hours of my childhood in that help system :)
  - malux85 7y ago
    me too! <3
- craz8 7y ago
  Microsoft help systems were great back then. Which was good, as there was little online documentation, and what was available was expensive to access with per-minute dial-up fees I remember a version of MS C in the late 80s coming with 5,500 pages of printed documentation! And it was easy to find what you needed
  - ido 7y ago
    i agree. imagine my disappointment upon installing Redhat Linux 5.2 in 1998 (from a CD-ROM that came bundled with a magazine!) and naively trying the man pages for documentation.
  - badsectoracula 7y ago
    And Borland's help systems too. Sadly today with (internet) online documentation things are still not as good - even if often there is more information, it is scattered all over the place, often repeating (parts of) itself and slow to find and access. The main reason why i prefer to have a WIN32.HLP file from (i think) some Borland product whenever i need some Win32 function than search Google for it for MS Docs (the test is 99.9% of the cases the same anyway). Also why i have Zeal[0] installed with the docs of a few things i use and i download offline copies of whatever specs and documentation i can find for other things. But in terms of help systems, i think CHM was the peak (in terms of functionality - the HTML-based content is a bit of unnecessary overhead and something like HLP's hypertext should have been good enough, but Microsoft wanted to shove IE4 everywhere so they can claim it was an integral part of Windows 98 back then). [0] https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/

craz8 7y ago

It’s interesting that QBasic was thought of as a beginners or gaming language In the early 90s, I worked on a bond trading floor in London, and we used QBasic for production systems. It was quite fun to work with, and pretty powerful with the right libraries. This was all in Dos as it was before Windows 3 was released, and getting everything to work in 640k was fun (I recall there was a system to page in and out different parts of the app, but my memory may be faulty on this part)

ashleyn 7y ago
Part of the appeal Qbasic had to me as a kid, was that I read that it was occasionally used in a professional capacity. So this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use language had the added cool-factor of being "real stuff". I don't think something like Gamemaker or Scratch would've had the same appeal - they'd just feel like baby's toys to me, whereas with something like Qbasic you knew you were actually doing "real" programming.
- craz8 7y ago
  It was certainly real stuff - less than 5 years later I was part of the team that shipped Windows 95 (but I was a C programmer before QuickBasic, so that helped)
h2odragon 7y ago
The QB 4.5 / PDS 7.1 compilers (linked on that site) were actually decent. Coupled with some of the ASM libraries available at the time there were crazy possibilities. I had a background/TSR file transfer utility in 1989(?) written in QB 4.5 and assembler for the fun stuff. (Never commercialized, the boss said "the computer still has to be on to receive things? that's useless") There were numerous vertical market applications developed in QB/ PDS; things we'd call CRM today all the way to "estimate how many passes this scraper will take to build an earth dam of this size and shape" tools. Microsoft forsaking that toolchain in favor of Windows / Visual Basic put a lot of those shops out of business.
redisman 7y ago
It had a very accessible core graphics API which was (and still is) really rare.

JaDogg 7y ago

First of all, Thanks. Hats off! Learning BASIC made me a better human. I learned x86 ASM, Win32API all thanks to freeBASIC and VB6. I think the best decision I've made in young life (13-14 years old) is learning BASIC, which made me the developer today.

carl8 7y ago

Back in the late '90's there was the All BASIC Code (ABC) repository, which was a large collection of the best Basic code at the time. Some of my code made it there. Found this copy here: https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive I used to be active on the QB FIDOnet forums in the mid-90's until many of the BBSs shut down. It was my favorite language during my teen years!

analognoise 7y ago

I'm reading Anders E. Zonst's "Understanding the FFT" second edition, and the programs were originally in GW-BASIC. I have since installed qb64 and PCBASIC, and find the book really amazing; consequently I find the language superior for simple exposition - there's an insane amount of positive things you can say about taking a supposedly complex subject and breaking it down with a language that is that simple - if you truly understand a thing, you can implement it in a language as simple as BASIC in a clear way, taking the mystery out of it. How hard can it be if it you can implement it on something with a Z80, right? Brilliant, and odd timing that this is on HN right now.

beetwenty 7y ago
There are a few rough edges in old BASICs(and they have been smoothed out in pretty much every one that's shipped since 1990 or so) but the practical truth is, to implement most code in a readable form, you don't need a great deal of expressiveness, syntactical sugar, or structured flow control, but you do need a few common data types and features to work with them, and even vintage BASIC does that much. This is what people mean when they say that languages haven't progressed that much. There are places where they have(e.g. dynamic memory allocation features really do matter to large-enough, featureful-enough programs) but almost all the features can be dispensed with for the base case of solving one problem well. The tooling and ecosystem matter a great deal more since they make the difference between having a finished solution in hand and having to fight to get something built and deployed. I/O and protocol compatibility are major sticking points everywhere.
0815test 7y ago
Well, as some people say: you can write FORTRAN in any language! And BASIC is just substandard FORTRAN.

klez 7y ago

Heh, this brings back memories :) I'm another one of those who learned their ropes in QBasic, circa 2001. A substitute teacher told us about logo and my 13-year old mind thought you just need to type the commands on the windows desktop to make it work. Imagine my disappointment when it didn't work. So one day we're at my dad's friend home. Their son puts a floppy in, starts a weird blue application, loads a file called GORILLA.BAS and starts the program. Then I understand what's going on: that's something you can write your programs in! Copy that floppy and give it to me! One of my school books had a basic BASIC tutorial so I started typing useless code. Then I discovered RapidQ which was superficially like VisualBasic but didn't cost a dime (at least, that's how I remember it...). So I could make GUIs using a drag&drop interface. Good times :)

tomduncalf 7y ago

Ah man, QBasic makes me feel nostalgic! My first experiences of programming were with ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro BASIC when I was 5 or 6 or so but that was just simple IF this PRINT that type stuff, or copying listings from books. QBasic was where I first started realising you could do some really cool things with the combination of your brain and programming! I remember a teacher at school used to let us use the computers at lunch to play with QBasic and being very proud of working out how to draw a BMP file (in the days before we had Internet access)... and then a pupil in the year above blowing that completely away with a demo he’d written with pseudo-3D graphics and everything. He later got expelled for writing some kind of boot sector virus and installing it on the school computers. Wonder what he is up to now!

greypowerOz 7y ago

i wrote my first commercial program in Qbasic.. good times :)

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neandrake 7y ago

I was introduced to QBasic by a friend in the mid/late 90's and spent a great deal of time on a community called NeoZones. The site allowed people to showcase their work, tutorials for learning, forums for talking with everyone else -- there was always something to dig into and such fun. I've never experienced a developer/programming community like that since. I hope there are still communities like that out there and would love to find some to be part of again.

IndigoFox 7y ago
At some point there was a fork of NeoZones into NeoBasic. Last I checked, NeoBasic.net still had forums, but only long time regulars barely post. It looks down today, sadly.

teilo 7y ago

I was using QuickBasic before there was a QBasic. (QuickBasic compiled to an executable for those who are unfamiliar with it.) Made some money with it as a teen programmer. I built a menuing system modeled after Automenu (by Magee Enterprises), but with an easier to follow config format and more flexibility. It ended up being popular enough to sell in my little corner of the DOS universe. Sold it on floppy disk at a local computer store.

IndigoFox 7y ago

I spent a lot of time with Pete on ICQ in the late 90s. He really taught me a lot of basics (heh) about programming back then, and his community was great. Many regulars from his site and NeoZones/Neobasic are still in contact with each other, and it's crazy seeing what some people do now, like release TurboGrafx games.

Razengan 7y ago

QBasic was probably the first language I wrote something in from start to finish. It was an attempt at a clone of Deflektor [0]. Before that, I never really got anywhere on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, though I still hope to go back in an emulator and make up for that someday. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzA8NdXEB2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzA8NdXEB2M