Today’s domains keep the fine print in frame. LIFE reconstructs a QBasic artificial-life ecosystem in original and bug-fixed forms, with transaction/explorer links and raw-data references.
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Original Bugs Included
October 6’s newborn domains reconstruct a QBasic ecosystem reportedly stored in Bitcoin and turn a Plex library into a multiplayer rental store, preserving more than appearances.
domainarrivals.com
October 6, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Today’s domains keep the fine print in frame. LIFE reconstructs a QBasic artificial-life ecosystem in original and bug-fixed forms, with transaction/explorer links and raw-data references.
domainarrivals.com/issues/2026-...
domainarrivals.com/issues/2026-...
QBasic JRPGs to Geocities is such a perfect origin story. Do any of those old sites still survive on an archive somewhere?
October 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
QBasic JRPGs to Geocities is such a perfect origin story. Do any of those old sites still survive on an archive somewhere?
QBasic JRPGs to Geocities is such a perfect origin story. Do any of those old sites still survive on an archive somewhere?
October 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
QBasic JRPGs to Geocities is such a perfect origin story. Do any of those old sites still survive on an archive somewhere?
Raster Master Sprite/Tile/Map Update 8.6 R142 - Raster Master Sprite/Map Editor for Windows 7/8/10/11
retronick2020.itch.io/raster-maste...
retronick2020.itch.io/raster-maste...
Raster Master Sprite/Tile/Map Update 8.6 R142
-New Map Properties Tab with Key/value pairs. for RES BIN v3 format -QBasic interpreter enhanced to support more commands. see included qbasic interpreter guide -QBasic Editor under script menu. new s...
retronick2020.itch.io
October 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Raster Master Sprite/Tile/Map Update 8.6 R142 - Raster Master Sprite/Map Editor for Windows 7/8/10/11
retronick2020.itch.io/raster-maste...
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YES. It started my career as a webdev, building stupid geocities websites on programming jrpg's in qbasic
I do not remember a period where “everyone hated the internet”
I remember an early period where mostly it was a niche nerd thing few people knew about, like messing with ham radio
Followed by an explosion where EVERYONE was spontaneously online
I was there! Building websites! Everyone wanted one!
I remember an early period where mostly it was a niche nerd thing few people knew about, like messing with ham radio
Followed by an explosion where EVERYONE was spontaneously online
I was there! Building websites! Everyone wanted one!
October 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
YES. It started my career as a webdev, building stupid geocities websites on programming jrpg's in qbasic
I see a Qbasic book!
October 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I see a Qbasic book!
qbasic book spotted
October 4, 2026 at 2:01 AM
qbasic book spotted
I spent a lot of time on a BBS called Noodle Ranch. They had a particularly fun async game called Murder Motel. itch.io/jam/retro-re...
Blast from the past - /\/\urder /\/\otel BBS Door game - Where I got my start back in the 80's - Retro Recreation Jam - Summer 2026 community
Hello All: I joined this jam and might be re-creating something I created a long time ago. Back in the days of Bulletin Board Systems (before the internet took hold), I created a TRS-80 (MS DOS/QBasic
itch.io
October 3, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I spent a lot of time on a BBS called Noodle Ranch. They had a particularly fun async game called Murder Motel. itch.io/jam/retro-re...
i used to write qbasic like this lmao
October 2, 2026 at 5:49 AM
i used to write qbasic like this lmao
Dude, there is nothing chiptune, irc or mirc about qbasic. Please be reasonable, people don't like spam.
September 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Dude, there is nothing chiptune, irc or mirc about qbasic. Please be reasonable, people don't like spam.
Version 1.0 of Q-Basic with the source code of the most popular programs
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#ansiart #ansi #ascii #asciiart #pixelart #textmode #textart #text #art #demoscene #basic #retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #8bitart #Chiptune #music #irc #mirc #qbasic #indiedev
Download Q-Basic - Download Quick Basic QB for DOS and for win7
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September 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I miss programming. We had a good time. I've been programming since I first started playing around in QBasic and Turbo Pascal in the late eighties. It's been my hobby and my career. I was pretty decent at it.
Over just a couple of months everything changed. LLMs do all the work now. I
Over just a couple of months everything changed. LLMs do all the work now. I
September 28, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I miss programming. We had a good time. I've been programming since I first started playing around in QBasic and Turbo Pascal in the late eighties. It's been my hobby and my career. I was pretty decent at it.
Over just a couple of months everything changed. LLMs do all the work now. I
Over just a couple of months everything changed. LLMs do all the work now. I
Qbasic, weil das beim alten Windows einfach mit dabei war und ich es beim stöbern gefunden hab.
September 28, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Qbasic, weil das beim alten Windows einfach mit dabei war und ich es beim stöbern gefunden hab.
QBASIC Microsoft Games write in BASIC
[GORILLAS-NIBBLES-QBLOCKS-QBRICKS-QMAZE-QSHIP] download in video link
youtu.be/RDsVkokU69Y
#textmode #retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #qbasic #BASIC
[GORILLAS-NIBBLES-QBLOCKS-QBRICKS-QMAZE-QSHIP] download in video link
youtu.be/RDsVkokU69Y
#textmode #retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #qbasic #BASIC
QBASIC Microsoft Games write in BASIC - [GORILLAS - NIBBLES - QBLOCKS - QBRICKS - QMAZE - QSHIP].BAS
YouTube video by thedubber7
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September 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
QBASIC Microsoft Games write in BASIC
[GORILLAS-NIBBLES-QBLOCKS-QBRICKS-QMAZE-QSHIP] download in video link
youtu.be/RDsVkokU69Y
#textmode #retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #qbasic #BASIC
[GORILLAS-NIBBLES-QBLOCKS-QBRICKS-QMAZE-QSHIP] download in video link
youtu.be/RDsVkokU69Y
#textmode #retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #qbasic #BASIC
September 27, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Mega Man 2 is maybe the perfect NES game: bright and colourful, great/hard gameplay, incredible music. And Gorillas was a game we used to play in typing class in grade nine, modifying the source to play without sound, and how I got into QBasic programming.
September 26, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Mega Man 2 is maybe the perfect NES game: bright and colourful, great/hard gameplay, incredible music. And Gorillas was a game we used to play in typing class in grade nine, modifying the source to play without sound, and how I got into QBasic programming.
so i came up with a system for managing sprite rendering in my QBasic GPU and out of that system rolled sprite multiplexing and now i'm wondering how much of a bad idea it would be to reduce the maximum number of supported sprites, since multiplexing could be used to work around that
September 26, 2026 at 2:32 PM
so i came up with a system for managing sprite rendering in my QBasic GPU and out of that system rolled sprite multiplexing and now i'm wondering how much of a bad idea it would be to reduce the maximum number of supported sprites, since multiplexing could be used to work around that
Fun project idea:
Write a full stack website using qbasic to write cgi scripts
Write a full stack website using qbasic to write cgi scripts
September 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Fun project idea:
Write a full stack website using qbasic to write cgi scripts
Write a full stack website using qbasic to write cgi scripts
Q-basic BAS codes.
thedubber.altervista.org/other/qbasic...
#basic #qb #qb64 #qbasic #quick #ansiart #ansi #ascii #asciiart #pixelart #textmode #textart #text #art #demoscene #bbs #source #code
#retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #games #indiegames #indes #dosbox #emulation
thedubber.altervista.org/other/qbasic...
#basic #qb #qb64 #qbasic #quick #ansiart #ansi #ascii #asciiart #pixelart #textmode #textart #text #art #demoscene #bbs #source #code
#retrocomputing #retrographics #8bit #Microsoft #msdos #games #indiegames #indes #dosbox #emulation
QBasic Download Source code - gorillas, nibble, qblocks - theDUBBER
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September 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
notable mentions:
Qbasic Gorillas (a DOS game!!!!)
Barbie (1991 NES game)
Mario is Missing! (weird snes game)
Castelian (NES game very hard)
Adventures of Lolo (NES game we rented all the time)
FLYFF (mmorpg I played in college)
Qbasic Gorillas (a DOS game!!!!)
Barbie (1991 NES game)
Mario is Missing! (weird snes game)
Castelian (NES game very hard)
Adventures of Lolo (NES game we rented all the time)
FLYFF (mmorpg I played in college)
September 23, 2026 at 12:44 AM
notable mentions:
Qbasic Gorillas (a DOS game!!!!)
Barbie (1991 NES game)
Mario is Missing! (weird snes game)
Castelian (NES game very hard)
Adventures of Lolo (NES game we rented all the time)
FLYFF (mmorpg I played in college)
Qbasic Gorillas (a DOS game!!!!)
Barbie (1991 NES game)
Mario is Missing! (weird snes game)
Castelian (NES game very hard)
Adventures of Lolo (NES game we rented all the time)
FLYFF (mmorpg I played in college)
i'm expecting 3 people to buy my game when it drops but i am super pumped to have something playable on my steamdeck. it's a weird excitement and feeling that reminds me of when i was making my first 'game', which was a text based farming game with farts, written in qbasic when i was 10.
#gamedev
#gamedev
September 21, 2026 at 9:42 AM
i'm expecting 3 people to buy my game when it drops but i am super pumped to have something playable on my steamdeck. it's a weird excitement and feeling that reminds me of when i was making my first 'game', which was a text based farming game with farts, written in qbasic when i was 10.
#gamedev
#gamedev
Gorillas for QBasic. My brother and I figured out how to hack in a ceiling (overflow the angle or velocity, it wouldn't remove it all and then those pixels interacted with shots). That offered a window into how it was coded and the details of how everything worked.
September 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Gorillas for QBasic. My brother and I figured out how to hack in a ceiling (overflow the angle or velocity, it wouldn't remove it all and then those pixels interacted with shots). That offered a window into how it was coded and the details of how everything worked.
Probably “Gorilla” on QBASIC, because we quickly discovered the constants in the source code that controlled the world physics and got to make super fast bananas and super strong gravity. Honorable mentions to SimCity, Civ2 and — speaking of origins — Dragon Age: Origins, the first game I finished.
What's your "origin" video game?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
September 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Probably “Gorilla” on QBASIC, because we quickly discovered the constants in the source code that controlled the world physics and got to make super fast bananas and super strong gravity. Honorable mentions to SimCity, Civ2 and — speaking of origins — Dragon Age: Origins, the first game I finished.