I'm celebrating 40 years on this planet (plus 6 months of open-source focus) by porting one of my favorite games ever:
Play QBasic Gorillas (1991) in pure #CSS 🙉
codepen.io/editor/alowp...
Play QBasic Gorillas (1991) in pure #CSS 🙉
codepen.io/editor/alowp...
November 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
I'm celebrating 40 years on this planet (plus 6 months of open-source focus) by porting one of my favorite games ever:
Play QBasic Gorillas (1991) in pure #CSS 🙉
codepen.io/editor/alowp...
Play QBasic Gorillas (1991) in pure #CSS 🙉
codepen.io/editor/alowp...
I'd love to get on these lists. Been crafting art and code by hand since DOS and QBASIC. 💜💾
November 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I'd love to get on these lists. Been crafting art and code by hand since DOS and QBASIC. 💜💾
GORILLAS QBASIC first on PC, then mainly Transport Tycoon !
November 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
GORILLAS QBASIC first on PC, then mainly Transport Tycoon !
simple music tracker for uBasic (should work with QBasic also). Supports midi keyboard, midi files conversion etc.
tools.unitycoder.com/uBasicMusicT...
tools.unitycoder.com/uBasicMusicT...
November 14, 2026 at 11:36 AM
simple music tracker for uBasic (should work with QBasic also). Supports midi keyboard, midi files conversion etc.
tools.unitycoder.com/uBasicMusicT...
tools.unitycoder.com/uBasicMusicT...
Well, I struggled all the way to grade 3 or 4 when I got a math teacher who knew I was really into video games and plopped a Qbasic book on the tabled about making them when I was on the library computer. Obsolete at the time but it was still on the computer and all we had and luckily. It stuck.
November 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Well, I struggled all the way to grade 3 or 4 when I got a math teacher who knew I was really into video games and plopped a Qbasic book on the tabled about making them when I was on the library computer. Obsolete at the time but it was still on the computer and all we had and luckily. It stuck.
Thank you for all these wonderful useful informations! : D
I'll document myself and reflect on my ideal environment..
Maybe I'll just proceed with wonky stuff like QBasic and Forth jst for the lulz.. : D
I'll document myself and reflect on my ideal environment..
Maybe I'll just proceed with wonky stuff like QBasic and Forth jst for the lulz.. : D
November 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Thank you for all these wonderful useful informations! : D
I'll document myself and reflect on my ideal environment..
Maybe I'll just proceed with wonky stuff like QBasic and Forth jst for the lulz.. : D
I'll document myself and reflect on my ideal environment..
Maybe I'll just proceed with wonky stuff like QBasic and Forth jst for the lulz.. : D
Вспомнил свой первый «Hello World» на QBasic — с тех пор и застрял в петле времени между «ещё строчку» и «уже три часа ночи».
November 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Вспомнил свой первый «Hello World» на QBasic — с тех пор и застрял в петле времени между «ещё строчку» и «уже три часа ночи».
Watching QBASIC-era you imagine today's AI would've blown your mind—still, the same instinct to build and tinker is what gets drafts finished now.
November 10, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Watching QBASIC-era you imagine today's AI would've blown your mind—still, the same instinct to build and tinker is what gets drafts finished now.
In the avatar I'm thinking about beginning a project for fun with QBasic using basic for programming. Please understand. It's my childhood.
In my mind I'm still in my first house in the early 90s at my desk using my 286 ibm pc clone dabbling with code producing none of valour but happy. 🛌🏻☔⌨️🎄🎁🎇🎆🎂
In my mind I'm still in my first house in the early 90s at my desk using my 286 ibm pc clone dabbling with code producing none of valour but happy. 🛌🏻☔⌨️🎄🎁🎇🎆🎂
November 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
In the avatar I'm thinking about beginning a project for fun with QBasic using basic for programming. Please understand. It's my childhood.
In my mind I'm still in my first house in the early 90s at my desk using my 286 ibm pc clone dabbling with code producing none of valour but happy. 🛌🏻☔⌨️🎄🎁🎇🎆🎂
In my mind I'm still in my first house in the early 90s at my desk using my 286 ibm pc clone dabbling with code producing none of valour but happy. 🛌🏻☔⌨️🎄🎁🎇🎆🎂
I wish I could talk to myself 20 years ago when I was writing games in QBASIC with Notepad just to tell me what people are doing with Generative AI today.
November 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I wish I could talk to myself 20 years ago when I was writing games in QBASIC with Notepad just to tell me what people are doing with Generative AI today.
I was a child in 93 so I just dabbled with QBasic, Watcom something (my memory is blurred), GCC something, Visual Basic, etc. Maybe some Borland stuff my father bough home from state programming work (sound very U.S.S.R xD).. I had a Borland globe keychain, a Digital tote bag (new fashion), etc. xD
November 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I was a child in 93 so I just dabbled with QBasic, Watcom something (my memory is blurred), GCC something, Visual Basic, etc. Maybe some Borland stuff my father bough home from state programming work (sound very U.S.S.R xD).. I had a Borland globe keychain, a Digital tote bag (new fashion), etc. xD
QBAVision v1.0 for the Amiga is here! - QBAVision - An AmigaBASIC like compiler
retronick2020.itch.io/qbavision/de... #amiga #amigabasic #qbasic #qb64pe
retronick2020.itch.io/qbavision/de... #amiga #amigabasic #qbasic #qb64pe
QBAVision v1.0 for the Amiga is here!
Thank You for Downloading QBAVision! This is my attempt to right a few wrongs in Amiga history—and bring some new life to a classic platform! When AmigaBASIC was first released, it wasn't particular.....
retronick2020.itch.io
November 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
QBAVision v1.0 for the Amiga is here! - QBAVision - An AmigaBASIC like compiler
retronick2020.itch.io/qbavision/de... #amiga #amigabasic #qbasic #qb64pe
retronick2020.itch.io/qbavision/de... #amiga #amigabasic #qbasic #qb64pe
Wir hatten ine computer ag noch schön grüne monitore. U rechner mit qbasic
November 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Wir hatten ine computer ag noch schön grüne monitore. U rechner mit qbasic
A couple of years later I shifted to digital interactive fiction, working on a noir detective themed Zork style open-worldish thing using QBASIC. It had a day/night cycle (the color of the text would change, and a little moving sun time element at the top of the screen.)
November 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
A couple of years later I shifted to digital interactive fiction, working on a noir detective themed Zork style open-worldish thing using QBASIC. It had a day/night cycle (the color of the text would change, and a little moving sun time element at the top of the screen.)
I found a 3.5" floppy disk with what I believe are the first games I ever attempted to make as a kid. (QBasic!)
It's probably corrupted by now, but I may pick up a USB floppy disk drive just to see if anything is still there.
It's probably corrupted by now, but I may pick up a USB floppy disk drive just to see if anything is still there.
November 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I found a 3.5" floppy disk with what I believe are the first games I ever attempted to make as a kid. (QBasic!)
It's probably corrupted by now, but I may pick up a USB floppy disk drive just to see if anything is still there.
It's probably corrupted by now, but I may pick up a USB floppy disk drive just to see if anything is still there.
Even if I don't find anything, maybe I'll go back and write a little something in QBasic again, just for funsies. Pretty sure there are emulators so you can run it in browser now.
November 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Even if I don't find anything, maybe I'll go back and write a little something in QBasic again, just for funsies. Pretty sure there are emulators so you can run it in browser now.
*leans in to whisper*
a second vibe coded qbasic compiler has hit the subreddit
a second vibe coded qbasic compiler has hit the subreddit
November 2, 2026 at 7:42 AM
*leans in to whisper*
a second vibe coded qbasic compiler has hit the subreddit
a second vibe coded qbasic compiler has hit the subreddit
What would we do without *two* vibe slopped QBasic clones!
November 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
What would we do without *two* vibe slopped QBasic clones!
Хорошие новости:
Я поставил на свое доисторическое ведро MS-DOS
Плохие новости:
Я узнал о существовании QBasic и начал его понемногу осваивать
Я поставил на свое доисторическое ведро MS-DOS
Плохие новости:
Я узнал о существовании QBasic и начал его понемногу осваивать
November 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Хорошие новости:
Я поставил на свое доисторическое ведро MS-DOS
Плохие новости:
Я узнал о существовании QBasic и начал его понемногу осваивать
Я поставил на свое доисторическое ведро MS-DOS
Плохие новости:
Я узнал о существовании QBasic и начал его понемногу осваивать
Date yourself with a pic of your first computer.
It was a Packard Bell Legend 233 with Windows 3.1, a CD drive added, and a ZIP drive after that. I remember it couldn't run Duke 3D, but could run Theme Park and Sim City and many other games of that era. I experimented with QBasic on that thing!
It was a Packard Bell Legend 233 with Windows 3.1, a CD drive added, and a ZIP drive after that. I remember it couldn't run Duke 3D, but could run Theme Park and Sim City and many other games of that era. I experimented with QBasic on that thing!
November 4, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Date yourself with a pic of your first computer.
It was a Packard Bell Legend 233 with Windows 3.1, a CD drive added, and a ZIP drive after that. I remember it couldn't run Duke 3D, but could run Theme Park and Sim City and many other games of that era. I experimented with QBasic on that thing!
It was a Packard Bell Legend 233 with Windows 3.1, a CD drive added, and a ZIP drive after that. I remember it couldn't run Duke 3D, but could run Theme Park and Sim City and many other games of that era. I experimented with QBasic on that thing!
Ну теперь твоё доисторическое ведро будет кормить моего тамагочи строками из QBasic.
November 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Ну теперь твоё доисторическое ведро будет кормить моего тамагочи строками из QBasic.
That said, I remember when I was first starting to write code in QBasic, I did LOTS of little graphical projects in effort to make cool looking artistic screensavers. One of my favorites rendered whatever was on the screen statically and melted it. I iterated over it hundreds of times. That was art.
November 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
That said, I remember when I was first starting to write code in QBasic, I did LOTS of little graphical projects in effort to make cool looking artistic screensavers. One of my favorites rendered whatever was on the screen statically and melted it. I iterated over it hundreds of times. That was art.