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

https://qb64.com/

#quickBASIC #QBASIC #BASIC

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Für die alten Programmierhasen unter euch hab ich gerade noch was ganz Spezielles ins Internet Archive gestellt. Microsoft's QuickBASIC 4.0 für MS-DOS aus dem Jahre 1988. Deutsche Fassung auf 4 x 360KB 5,25 Zoll DD-Disketten.

Disketten: https://archive.org/details/quickbasic40_de
Referenzkarte: https://archive.org/details/quickbasic40_de_referenzkarte

Viel Spaß beim Coden!

#QuickBASIC #Basic #Programmieren #Programmiersprache #Microsoft #MSDOS #RetroComputing #Retro #80er #80s #DOS #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Diskette

Рубрика ебануццо
В 2004 году один датчанин написал полнофункциональный GUI для DOS для машин класса XT на — держитесь — #QuickBasic. Иконки, запуск других программ итп. Минимум просит 200k. Называется #costaGUI, сорцы открыты

#retrocomputing

Кто угодно может пнуть мёртвого льва

Кто угодно может пнуть мёртвого льва. Мёртвый лев не рыкнет на наглеца. Мёртвый лев не откусит ему ногу «по самое не хочу», хотя стоило бы. Лев мёртв, и теперь его может пнуть каждый ишак, что конечно же не показывает превосходство ишака над львом. Эта статья будет полна негодования и ненависти. Кровь ещё закончила кипеть от негодования. Но, разумеется, помимо эмоций будут и сухие объективные факты, немножко исследования и расстановка точек над i. В интернете кто-то не прав... опять... Существует целый ряд инструментов, технологий и вообще вещей, которым по какой-то непонятной вселенской несправедливости не повезло : нашлась масса непонятных людей, которые по какой-то необъяснимой причине начали распускать про эти инструменты/технологии/вещи разные небылицы, идиотские фейки, слухи и прочий порочащий репутацию «компромат». Можно не переживать, если речь идёт о технологии, которая находится «на пике» — у неё будет большое community и правда восторжествует. Совсем другое дело, когда речь идёт о чём-то, что далеко не на пике, чья минута славы в прошлом (возможно даже давно в прошлом) — здесь мёртвый «лев» не может дать сдачи, и что самое обидное, что в какой-то степени «лев» сейчас мёртв отчасти и потому, что ещё при его жизни началось необоснованное распространение всяких бредовых поверий и мифов про него. И сегодня речь пойдёт об одном из таких случаев.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/973594/

#Basic #QuickBasic #Visual_Basic #интерпретатор #трансляция #x86 #фейки

FYI: QB64: Why This Community Keeps Building! #shorts: QB64's community thrives despite setbacks, finding lost materials and rewriting code. It offers early internet vibes and an easy learning curve. See fast results across Windows, MacOS, and Linux, with backwards compatible innovation. #QB64 #QuickBasic #community #coding #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxYuVzHDLLc

ICYMI: QB64: Why This Community Keeps Building! #shorts: QB64's community thrives despite setbacks, finding lost materials and rewriting code. It offers early internet vibes and an easy learning curve. See fast results across Windows, MacOS, and Linux, with backwards compatible innovation. #QB64 #QuickBasic #community #coding #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxYuVzHDLLc

QB64: Why This Community Keeps Building! #shorts: QB64's community thrives despite setbacks, finding lost materials and rewriting code. It offers early internet vibes and an easy learning curve. See fast results across Windows, MacOS, and Linux, with backwards compatible innovation. #QB64 #QuickBasic #community #coding #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxYuVzHDLLc

Repórter Retro 118

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/09/24/reporter-retro-118/

#ReprterRetro #6502 #AdrianBlack #AMXProject #Argentina #BancoDeDados #BASIC #CdigoDeBarras #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #CPM #DanielCampos #DartmouthCollege #DiskII #disquete #DisqueteDe312 #GrupoDeUsurios #IBM #IntelignciaArtificial #ISA #JAIIO #Mainframes #MakerTube #microsoft #modem #MSDOS #MSX #MSXJa #MSXRio #MSXVGA #Novell #Pick #QuickBASIC #RetroRio #SWAC #TByteCreator #Theremin #VWestlife #Windows95 #Xenix

I know there are many #DOS gamers here and those who simply love #retroComputing and #technology . But are there any serious DOS #programmers here as well? If so, in which language/s do you write? (I want to learn #QuickBasic , but I am at the very beginning, and it's not advanced enough for what I need.) Does anyone here work on the development of #FreeDOS ? Assuming any of the above is true, do any of you know about #accessibility and #ScreenReaders ? I am totally #blind and have loved DOS since I was a teenager. I am now forty-one. I am aware of the many updates to the system over the years, but have been unable to take advantage of them due to the fact that no new or updated #AdaptiveTechnology is being developed for it. Everyone seems to love Linux. I don't. Neither do I like Mac OS. I love Windows XP and 7, but 11 drives me mad. I think we deserve another alternative to all of these, and I also think that DOS can be it if a few things are added to it, including a talking installer, an updated screen reader and good software speech synthesis. For those of you who think DOS only equals dialup modems and floppies, you may wish to read this, or at least skim through it.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Fal.html

I am considering learning to program, not as a career but for myself. I have been wanting to do this for a long time but never really started. One thing I do know is that I like procedural languages as opposed to object-oriented ones. I am strongly considering QuickBASIC 4.5 or 7.1, and Turbo Pascal 6.0, but I don't know which to choose as a beginner. I know there are flavours of these that can work with Windows XP and 7, and maybe, one day, I will try them in their 32-bit varients. But for now, I am focusing on the DOS ones,since they are probably easier to learn and use. Is there anything I should know as a totally blind programmer? If I did choose to switch to a Windows varient of one of these languages, how difficult would the transition be?

If it helps, these are the sorts of programs I use in Windows.

Notepad Classic, Jarte (can simply use Edit or Wordperfect 5.1, or MS Word 5.5, but simple editor may be good for project)

MPCHC (mp3 player, I don't mind a simpler one)

Virtual Recorder (simple mp3 recorder/may be difficult in DOS)

Thunderbird 102 (most likely too advanced for a beginner)

TweeseCake, TWBlue (for Mastodon/there is already a DOStodon, but don't know if it's accessible)

Reddit for Blind, Luna for Reddit

Cook Timer (simple timers exist, but this may be good to create as a beginner project)

Openbook, Kurzweil 1000 (ocr and pdf converter, too advanced for beginner)

various audio and text-based games

#16-bit #32-bit #accessibility #BASIC #blind #DOS #programming #QuickBASIC #TurboPascal #Windows7 #WindowsXP

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Hello. For the sake of honesty, Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I use. I live in New Jersey and am forty-two years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century English grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, the Italian language, British history, the Regency, opera, and MS-DOS. I like coffee, tea, wine, cooking, reading, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I love opera, particularly singers from the 1940-s and earlier, classical music, from Baroque through early Romantic, and popular music from the 1950's through the 1970's, along with some acoustic recordings. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. I am happily childfree, am not religious, speak my mind and am against political correctness. I also love cats. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.

This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.

http://dandylover1.dreamwidth.org

This is my dating post on Mastodon, which is shorter than the one on Dreamwidth. It's somewhat similar to this one, but it contains an explanation of what I am seeking in a partner. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, an intelligent, single, childfree man over sixty, please read the link below and/or pass it on to him.

https://someplace.social/@dandylover1/114966815790206512

If you're on MSN via Escargot I am [email protected].

I am also the administrator of the Old Opera, and Blind and Fine, subreddits.

Interests

#accessibility #AgeGapRelationships #animals #atheism #BeauBrummell #baking #BelCanto #birds #BoardGames #books #BritishHistory #BritishLiterature #cards #cats #ChamberMusic #childfree #ClassicalMusic #coffee #cooking #crafts #dandies #dandyism #dating #documentaries #Dreamwidth #England #food #friends #friendship #gardening #grammar #history #humor #humour #introduction #Italian #MSDOS #nature #NewJersey #NoPolitics #NJ #NVDA #OldMen #OldTimeRadio #opera #operetta #paranormal #parapsychology #plants #QuickBasic #reading #ReceivedPronunciation #Reddit #Regency #RoyalFamily #seniors #SilverFork #singing #singles #suits #tea #theater #theatre #TWBlue #TweeseCake #UpperClass #Windows7 #WindowsXP #wine #AmWriting

Me to local-run exaone3.5:32b "write a #QuickBasic program to animate a white square moving from left to right repeatedly"

Most #coding #AIs fuck up #QBASIC code pretty bad. This one did better than most I've tried. On the Left is what it spat out, and on the Right is how I fixed it.

Some shit code nonetheless.

If you want to run it on DOSBox, or have a peek to the source code of my fantasy football management program, I put it here: http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=retroc/oldp/oldp.inc I used a technique to sort of include inline assembly that was quite elegant and that I learnt from a paper by Francesco Balena in the mid-1990's. #retrocomputing #retrocoding #BASIC #QuickBasic #Fantacalcio #MSDOS

Between 1996 and 1998, I wrote a complete management system for an Italian Fantasy football team. I wrote it from scratch for a friend who had an Olivetti M200, that was a slow computer for that time. I wrote it in #QuickBasic, with some assembly. It runs fine on the #IBM PS/2, even if it was written for a color monitor. It was pretty refined and even had a complete help system (ironically it was useful for me to remind how to use the software after almost 30 years) #retrocomputing

Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/16/episodio-162-parte-b/

#Podcast #AcornSystemBASIC #Amiga #AMOS #amstrad #arm #AtariSTBASIC #AtomBASIC #BAS #BASIC #BASIC68 #BASIC69 #BASICA #BBCBASIC #CARealizer #Commodore #copyleft #CPC #DarkBASIC #DB2 #Dijkstra #gwbasic #IBMBASIC #LibreOffice #LinguagemDeProgramao #LocomotiveBasic #MallardBASIC #MICROBASIC #microsoft #MSX #MSXBASIC #Picocalc #podcast #QB64 #qbasic #QuickBASIC #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #s

The co-inventor of #BASIC has passed away. 😢

BASIC was my first programming language and I was so into it (the #QuickBASIC dialect) in the late 90s.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

#ThomasKurtz #ComputerScience #programming

Serve Your Next Website With #QuickBasic

https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/serve-your-next-website-with-quickbasic/

Serve Your Next Website with QuickBasic https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/serve-your-next-website-with-quickbasic/ #Retrocomputing #quickbasic

Serve Your Next Website with QuickBasic - You can only imagine that when they made Star Trek back in the 1960s, they would h... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/serve-your-next-website-with-quickbasic/ #retrocomputing #quickbasic

This is very cool, Qub is a framework for building websites with #QB64, the modern recreation of #QuickBasic.

#RetroComputing

https://github.com/jamonholmgren/qub

Two flags added to #EGAPride (a pride flag quiz for #DOS in #QuickBasic). The polyamory flag was hard to implement. The heart is drawn with two circles, three lines, three ordinary fill instructions and a pattern fill, a feature I hadn't used before. Screen 7 has non-square pixels, so that had to be taken into account too. (The screenshot is shown in 4:3 aspect ratio.)
https://github.com/qalle2/ega-pride

#QuickBasic #QB64 game released on #GoG in 2024 BTW: https://www.gog.com/en/game/whispers_in_the_moss

I'm porting to #Rust a small program that my dad coded in #QuickBasic, mostly as an excuse to learn Rust. I have to admit that the VSCode #copilot extension is helping me a lot. Particularly the feature to explain errors and warnings.

I've been thinking I need a #fun side project for when I'm not feeling working on big things. I have the source #code for a few old #DOS #games I've hacked on a few times.

The games were written in #QuickBasic (and it's predecessors) and in the past I've used #QB64 to get them running natively on Windows....

Now I'm thinking of using an #LLM (e.g. like that powering #github #copilot) to translate the code into a modern language.

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Discovering foreign worlds or even distant planets has always been the kind of fascination that can be simulated especially by computer games in such an enjoyable way. The programming of such worlds alone is worth exploring. The #DOSGame #JoeStarmanOnPlanetX is a short tour through some role-playing fantasy and - as it is open source - also allows a look at the #QuickBasic code in the background.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1561/Joe-Starman-On-Planet-X.html

#IndieGame

now on a CRT lol #Furry #Transart #queerart #QuickBasic #DosBox #JojessArt