#qb64

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: Tapio of @unculturedgames has taken the smallscale #ANSIart aesthetic and extended it into an entire #QB64 #textmode #JRPG, #WhispersInTheMoss, available at most major PC game electronic storefronts. We included some scenes from the game, such as this conversation with a dragon, in the recent unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

(Nah, it's just a drawing in QuickBASIC.)

SCREEN 12 LINE (150, 150)-(400, 400), 12, B LINE (0, 0)-(150, 150), 12 LINE (0, 480)-(150, 400), 7 LINE (640, 0)-(400, 150), 12 LINE (400, 400)-(640, 480), 7 LINE (225, 275)-(300, 400), 7, B

COLOR 14 PRINT "This alley, however, is a total washout." PRINT: PRINT PRINT ">"

SLEEP

[basic-retro-programming]

QBasic Tutorial #49 - Bouncing Balls Animation ...

Note: It only runs with QB64 ...

Post #308: YouTube, School Freeware, QBasic Tutorial, #49 Bouncing Balls Animation, 2024.

[loomworld]

PONG GAME IN QB64!! :D if you doo answer this tysm for always making codes!! your a life saver and like half the time I have noooo idea what my teach is saying in class.. thank you!!

haha thxx anon I get it code is tiring for me too, I'm glad to be able to help

to run this code, ull need a qb64 interpreter or an emulator that supports qb64. Save the code with a .BAS extension and run it using the interpreter.

This basic Pong game uses simple graphics commands to draw the game elements, and it handles keyboard input to move the player's paddle. The computer-controlled paddle automatically tracks the ball's movement. The game keeps score and declares a winner when a player reaches a score of 10. The game loop continuously updates the game logic, redraws the game screen, and checks for key presses to control the player's paddle.

SCREEN 12

COLOR 15, 0

CLS

' Set up the game variables

DIM SHARED AS INTEGER ballX, ballY, ballSize

DIM SHARED AS INTEGER playerX, playerY, playerWidth, playerHeight

DIM SHARED AS INTEGER computerX, computerY, computerWidth, computerHeight

DIM SHARED AS INTEGER ballDirX, ballDirY

DIM SHARED AS INTEGER playerScore, computerScore

DIM SHARED AS STRING gameOver

' Initialize the game variables

SUB InitializeGame()

ballSize = 10

playerWidth = 10

playerHeight = 60

computerWidth = 10

computerHeight = 60

ballX = 320

ballY = 240

playerX = 10

playerY = 240 - (playerHeight / 2)

computerX = 620

computerY = 240 - (computerHeight / 2)

ballDirX = -1

ballDirY = -1

playerScore = 0

computerScore = 0

gameOver = ""

END SUB

' Draw the game elements

SUB DrawGame()

' Draw the ball

CIRCLE (ballX, ballY), ballSize, 14

' Draw the player's paddle

LINE (playerX, playerY)-(playerX, playerY + playerHeight), 11

' Draw the computer's paddle

LINE (computerX, computerY)-(computerX, computerY + computerHeight), 12

' Display the scores

PRINT "Player: "; playerScore

PRINT "Computer: "; computerScore

' Display the game over message if the game is over

IF gameOver <> "" THEN

PRINT gameOver

PRINT "Press any key to play again"

END IF

END SUB

' Move the player's paddle

SUB MovePlayerPaddle()

IF INKEY$ = "w" THEN

playerY = playerY - 10

END IF

IF INKEY$ = "s" THEN

playerY = playerY + 10

END IF

END SUB

' Move the computer's paddle

SUB MoveComputerPaddle()

IF ballY < computerY + (computerHeight / 2) THEN

computerY = computerY - 5

ELSEIF ballY > computerY + (computerHeight / 2) THEN

computerY = computerY + 5

END IF

END SUB

' Update the game logic

SUB UpdateGame()

' Move the ball

ballX = ballX + ballDirX

ballY = ballY + ballDirY

' Check collision with the player's paddle

IF ballX <= playerX + playerWidth AND ballY >= playerY AND ballY <= playerY + playerHeight THEN

ballDirX = -ballDirX

END IF

' Check collision with the computer's paddle

IF ballX >= computerX AND ballY >= computerY AND ballY <= computerY + computerHeight THEN

ballDirX = -ballDirX

END IF

' Check collision with the top and bottom walls

IF ballY <= 0 OR ballY >= 480 THEN

ballDirY = -ballDirY

END IF

' Check if the ball goes out of bounds on the left or right

IF ballX < 0 THEN

computerScore = computerScore + 1

ballX = 320

ballY = 240

ballDirX = -ballDirX

ELSEIF ballX > 640 THEN

playerScore = playerScore + 1

ballX = 320

ballY = 240

ballDirX = -ballDirX

END IF

' Check if the game is over

IF playerScore >= 10 OR computerScore >= 10 THEN

gameOver = "Game Over"

END IF

END SUB

' Main game loop

DO

CLS

InitializeGame()

DO

DrawGame()

MovePlayerPaddle()

MoveComputerPaddle()

UpdateGame()

SLEEP 10

LOOP UNTIL gameOver <> "" AND INKEY$ <> ""

LOOP UNTIL INKEY$ = CHR$(27)

[small-basic-programming]

For BASIC's 60th, three modern BASICs release new versions • The Register

Post 227: TheRegister.Com, For Basic's 60th, three modern BASICs release new versions, 2024.

[kennak]

Free Pascal と QB64 はどちらも維持され、比較的活発に開発が行われており、最新リリースは 2021 年に予定されています…しかし、最近ではほとんどの人が興味を持たない難解な言語を公開しているため、ほとんど無視されています。 「本物の」現代的なコンソール IDE には何が残されているのでしょうか? それでは、今日の現代 言語 最先端のものは、 Neovim 、 Doom Emacs 、さらには Helix のようです。 これらのエディタは非常に強力で、さまざまなプラグインのおかげで、合理的な IDE のようなエクスペリエンスを提供します。 とはいえ、私に言わせれば、これらは以前の Borland 製品が提供していたものと同じ種類のエクスペリエンスを提供するものではありません。インターフェイスはわかりにくく、多言語に対応しているため、ほとんどすべての機能で問題なく動作しますが、素晴らしいものではありません。何でも。 言うなれば「何でも屋、何の達人でもない」。 いずれにせよ、 microsoft/terminal#16440 の のようです 混乱した議論で私が観察した内容に基づくと、推奨される「シンプルな」TUI エディタは… GNU Nano … これはOK、動作しますが、第一に、これは IDE ではありません。第二に、私にはこれが WordStar のように見えます。 ええ、それが WordStar ではないことはわかっています。WordStar が必要な場合、最も近いものは Joe です。しかし、 Nano の外観は 、CP/M の時代にワード プロセッサを使った最初の経験を思い出させます。 ここで見てください:

30 年前にあった IDE...そして失われてしまった

[georgemcginn]

Moon Lander Simulator: A Text-Based Ode to Apollo-Era Engineering

Platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS (Terminal/CLI) License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Languages: C, Python, Rust, BASIC (QB64, FreeBASIC) Author: George McGinn GitHub: https://github.com/GeorgeMcGinn/MoonLander (Source Code & Binaries) On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s heartbeat doubled as he manually guided Apollo 11’s Lunar Module to a safe…

[mbergmann-sh]

QuickBasic für Linux - QB64 unter Debian Linux Bookworm installieren

[jezuk]

BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks • The Register

[hydralisk98]

MS-DOS 5.0 & 6.22 video investigative study session

This is a demo ice-breaker article of mine on Microsoft's historical record.

Greetings fellow retro tech enthusiasts, we are currently in DOS-gustus instead of DOScember (hehehe) and I want to explore more MS-DOS among you quite soon. Hopefully you don't mind me tinkering and toying around towards FreeDOS.

(I will try hard to get things in chronological order and very accessible by the time this reaches its intended audience, but for now I will dive super technical and will explain the simpler fundamentals in later entries )

By the way, yes. I will get to the Apple II + Commodore 64 (MOS 6502 machines', especially for educational and development programmers market) & Z80 systems (including S-100 and Xenix) in due time (as well as for my very own computation architectures), but right now we can focus onto the biggest continuous legacy niche right now.

Which is the Microsoft + IBM joint efforts for Intel CPUs, widely known as the "x86" range of CPUs (mostly aiming to look from the Intel 8088 to i486 specification, with tolerance for up to the Pentium III lineup and down to the Intel 8080 CPU family) by most people. And now we can observe, study and document what MS-DOS + FreeDOS have to offer (sadly starting from MS-DOS' version 5.0 and focusing most on the further ahead 6.22 version, because the IBM PC's BASIC varieties can wait for later articles, but excluding MS-DOS 7.10 & 8.0 ) :

Don't forget to take advantage of the EDIT program & the special text-based printer command line from the "MS-DOS 6.22 for dummies" book I borrow because of course it is worth sharing and using the public library within ethical boundaries, ain't I right?!

Of course there is much more to come (and basic commands + principles to condense) but it should be a good starting point for a few DOS commands like DIR, CD, VOL, TYPE, MORE, COPY, MOVE, DEL as well as a few wildcard characters... (from the content start to very last pages of chapter 4)

I will be looking more towards the various 8088-tier software in that series, albeit on a new thread. It will be done through my virtual 86Box "Czarina" VM (from Cassette BASIC to Visual Basic [might try also the .NET rendition perhaps... ] ), as well as a handful of Windows Terminal (PowerShell & Command Prompt) & System32 legacy-ier utilities.

Going from Cassette BASIC, with Disk BASIC & BASICA for 8088 (as well as the couple other software of that ecosystem, like GWBASIC, QuickBASIC, QBASIC and even FreeBASIC + QB64 Phoenix)...

... to the contemporary day of Windows 11+ versions with One Half Light reduced Command Prompt & Powershell in Windows Terminal.

And as stated earlier on a Discord server I enjoy much, I will get to explain the computer fundamentals and concepts leading from the mainstream baseline to such a technical level in due time. But until we reach such an article thread, take care of yourselves & farewell!

Czarina-VM, study of Microsoft tech stack history. Preview 1

Write down study notes about the evolution of MS-DOS, QuickBASIC (from IBM Cassette BASIC to the last officially Microsoft QBasic or some early Visual Basic), "Batch" Command-Prompt, PowerShell, Windows editions pathing from "2.11 for 386" to Windows "ME" (upgraded from a "98 SE" build though) with Windows "3.11 for Workgroups" and the other 9X ones in-between, Xenix, Microsoft Bob with Great Greetings expansion, a personalized mockup Win8 TUI animated flex box panel board and other historical (or relatively historical, with a few ground-realism & critical takes along the way) Microsoft matters here and a couple development demos + big tech opinions about Microsoft too along that studious pathway.

( Also, don't forget to link down the interactive-use sessions with 86box, DOSbox X & VirtualBox/VMware as video when it is indeed ready )

Yay for the four large tags below, and farewell.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @grymmjack 's monstrous #ANSIart screen seen here, long in the making, promotes a #QB64 adaptation of TSR's #Dungeon board game that he's been working on. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1023 artpack collection.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i always interpreted "LPRINT" as "literally print"

[basic-retro-programming]

QBasic Tutorial #48 - Bouncing Ball Animation ...

Post #304: YouTube, School Freeware, QBasic Tutorial, #48 Bouncing Ball Animation in QB64, 2024.

[loomworld]

me trying to predict what language we're gna learn in the next school year ;-----; hopefully not anything becoz I can't handle learning another language!! died and came to life when I was learning c++, cried while learning html and almost threw my laptop learning python! we learnt abt qb64 like 2 years ago and ofc I had to learn every single thing about it

[reviewgazette]

Remembering Quick Basic 4.5 of yesteryear, maybe no longer be sold commercially or bundled with computers but there is another called QB64 a clone of Quick Basic, if you like me and love Quick Basic download it and start programming!!

[georgemcginn]

QB64/QB64PE & Other BASIC Language Support for Visual Studio Code

As a developer who has a passion for retro computing and modern development tools, I’m excited to share my work on the QB64/QB64PE language support extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension provides enhanced syntax highlighting and language support for QB64/QB64PE and related BASIC dialects, making it easier for developers to work with .bas, .bi, .bm, and .inc files. Continue reading…