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Still love me some blue screen DOS edit writing basic back in the day. I think it was already called QBasic. When I first saw this posted I thought "oh dear, a

by keyle 4y ago

Still love me some blue screen DOS edit writing basic back in the day. I think it was already called QBasic. When I first saw this posted I thought "oh dear, a QBasic implementation in .NET"... Sadly today using QBasic for real work would be difficult if you have to interact with anything else that basic I/O. I'm not aware of a websocket QBasic implementation or any kind of scalable framework. But it has to keep existing, so we can teach our children basic before moving on to the horror show languages we use today.

tdeck 4y ago
QB64 is a reimplementation of the language with all kinds of modern additions like networking and high-res graphics. https://qb64.com/ https://qb64.com/
- keyle 4y ago
  Never heard of this one before, looks great!
- password4321 4y ago
  BBC Basic for SDL seems relevant, with praise for it's examples. https://github.com/rtrussell/BBCSDL https://github.com/rtrussell/BBCSDL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31362321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31362321
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Dark blue color themes are seriously underrated in modern IDEs. VS Code has a pretty nice one it ships with called Tomorrow Night Blue. Hide and turn off a lot of the junk and clutter in its UI (or just use zen mode) and VS Code can feel a bit like QBasic.
- zeven7 4y ago
  I'm going to try this out! - both the theme and zen mode.
- keyle 4y ago
  It's hard not to take advice from someone with such a flamboyant on topic nickname!
tenebrisalietum 4y ago
In the early 00's on a Windows XP machine, IIRC I had Abyss Web Server running and had QBASIC.EXE configured as a CGI interpreter. I was trying to make a rudimentary image gallery.