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File drop alarm! I prepared a #zeal / #dash docset for #directqb with #quickbasic. https://www.binarylab.eu/files/DirectQB161.docset.zip #qbasic #dos #msdos #retrogamedev #qb45
#dosneverdies

I tidied up my QBasic implementation of the MD5 algorithm.
https://codeberg.org/qalle/qbasic-md5/src/branch/main/MD5.BAS

#QBasic

The MacBook Pro is now properly set up.
#msdos #qbasic #gorillabas #retrocomputing #macbookpro

Here's a cool #QBASIC site
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/philosophy/philosophy.shtml

#BASIC #programming #retro #fun

Here's an interesting article about optimizing #QBASIC code for speed

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/qfastman/QFASTMAN.html

#qb #BASIC #qb64 #programming #optimizing

Here's an interesting article about optimizing #QBASIC code for speed

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/qfastman/QFASTMAN.html

#qb #BASIC #qb64 #programming #optimizing

A little #program that lets you move a Smiley Face around the screen using #QB64

https://qb64.com/

#quickBASIC #QBASIC #BASIC

(source code in ALT text)

Someone made a #BBS in #QBasic

#BASIC

https://github.com/druellan/ansi-bbs

Someone made an #8086 #emulator in #QBASIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPArFjyG-C8

They made a #StrangerThings game in #QBASIC

https://sites.google.com/view/astrangerthingsretrogame/home

#basic #retrograme #game

They made a #StrangerThings game in #QBASIC

https://sites.google.com/view/astrangerthingsretrogame/home

#basic #retrograme #game

I expanded Cycladic League,
https://troypress.itch.io/cycladic-league/devlog/1473190/double-the-islands-double-the-fun #QBASIC #retrocomputing #retrogaming

made a ravine kind of scene in blender and ran it through my 160x100 8bpp qbasic engine. i kinda like it :3

#QBasic #PixelArt #GameDev #RetroDev #RetroComputing

i've made a git repo for my Aseprite script that exports to QBasic's BSAVE format: https://github.com/Enichan/BSAVE-Aseprite

#aseprite #PixelArt #GameDev #QBasic #RetroDev #RetroComputing #dos

after spending all day and finally rolling back dosbox staging to 0.80.1 then tweaking a built in shader to my satisfaction, i finally have a CRT shader that matches my vision for my #QBasic game visuals

i'm satisfied with this

#GameDev #RetroDev #RetroComputing #PixelArt

i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using the line doubling feature of the VGA card to make it 320x100 then manually doubling each pixel horizontally for 160x100

i realized i could use a palette with 3 bits red/green and 2 blue, and then do "subpixel" dither to generate the in between colors. i made a converter to test if that would look good, and it does

here's a thread of images showing what that looks like

1/5

#PixelArt #QBasic #dos #RetroComputing #RetroDev

think i've figured out how i wanna do sound effects in my #QBasic engine. gonna make a tool that lets me author sounds with 30 square waves slices per second, with each slice having a frequency and volume

then i can play those using an OPL channel by updating every (other) frame

and i can export a PC speaker PLAY string for 18.2fps mode or machines without soundblaster that has 60 notes per second and plays in the background and use pulse width modulation to set 4 discrete volume levels

one thing i love about #QBasic is that periods are allowed in variable/function names so the following is totally legal:

CONST PUT.PSET = 0
CONST PUT.OP = 1

dug up an old link reidrac gave me (https://gist.github.com/juj/34306e6da02a8a7043e393f01e013f24) and managed to get 320x200 8bpp at 60Hz with square pixels going :D much better on my 60Hz monitor

i also learned how to use the VGA clocking mode register to turn the display on and off on demand which could be handy

#QBasic #dos #RetroComputing #RetroDev

hey, did you remember that in qbasic TRUE and FALSE aren't defined by default and you have to define them yourself?

because i suuuuure fucking diiiiidn't 🙃

#qbasic #RetroComputing

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116028540679767640

took me all fucking day because oh my god never interact with the DOS timers system but my qbasic engine can now reliably lock to:

- 70fps: full speed
- 35fps: double the time for logic and rendering for older computers
- 18.2fps: if you're running this on a 286 or something

#QBasic #RetroComputing #RetroDev #dos

eyyy its fuckin' working!

#qbasic #RetroComputing #retrodev #dos #MSDos

In Cycladic League, you explore the Cyclades archipelago to build your civilization. A browser-based civ game with a pixel-art map and text interface, it takes about 20 minutes to play. https://troypress.itch.io/cycladic-league #QBASIC #retrocomputing #retrogaming

This is a (very slight) extension of last year's Genuary20 (Architecture) prompt, which I based on the skyline in the old QBasic Gorillas game. This year, it gets extended to "3D" with layers of buildings, scaled and "misted" toward the back. And stars in the sky. Give me enough genuaries, and maybe I'll eventually call this one finished...

https://universeodon.com/@codeismycanvas/113863630573848342

#genuary #genuary26 #genuary8 #gorillas #qbasic

Thinking about writing a text adventure.

I really like the idea of dialogue options.

There was an old QBASIC game that I remember playing on my 486, and it had a really cool turn-based fighting system.

I have a half-done game about Gottfried Leibniz, who I wrote as a complete screwball.

Most of the work will be trying to come up with an interesting narrative.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #basic #qbasic #dos

@vwbusguy @kabel42 @rl_dane @jhx @dysfun @mirabilos even though I would hate to use it, the fact that there are people maintaining an open source version of #QBasic makes me happy!