Mastodawn

Hey mastodon, j'aimerais beaucoup retrouver les listings #QBASIC qui avaient été publiés dans les #ScienceEtVieJunior de mon adolescence (encore mieux si c'est avec les articles associés).

Je me souviens plus particulièrement d'un visualiseur #Mandelbrot / #Julia, d'un #Tetris et d'un générateur d'#autostéréogramme

Je ne les trouve ni sur #archiveorg ni sur d'autres sites moins recommandables. Est-ce que quelqu'un aurait ça ?

Boosts appréciés.

#retrocomputing #basic

Elod 🏳️‍🌈5d ago

My interface build from eons ago with relays and flipflops. Designed the #PCB s using #qbasic and #c. Driven by the LP port of a #pc. Too fragile to ship to the new country.

https://www.epcsirmaz.co.uk/jmc-interface.html

#electronics #retro

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Elod 🏳️‍🌈Aug 14

My #qbasic implementation of the classic solitaire has been my most-liked post yet! It made me wonder, would anyone like to see a remake in, say, #javascript in the browser?

I added tons of stuff to the original game like an all-visible deck, markers and even autoplay as I always got frustrated by the win31 version of the game. Brings back great memories 🙂

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

Yes, would like to play this in the browser!

100%

No (aka Maybe later)

Poll ended at Aug 21 at 9:41pm.

Elod 🏳️‍🌈Aug 12

Unearthed my #qbasic solitaire implementation (all ASCII) for #msdos that had an autoplay feature. The source and docs are on #codeberg; an exe is also available for #dosbox .

https://codeberg.org/csirmaz/BasicSolitaire

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

0x10f Aug 5

I made a QBasic program that simulates objects orbiting each other, with gravity being inversely proportional to the square of the distance. Screenshots with three objects orbiting 120 degrees apart:
1. just after the start of the simulation
2. a full circle
3. non-circular orbits have created a donut shape
4. rounding the position of each object to an integer on every frame has made the orbits octagonal
The program: https://pastebin.com/KPwZ0W3L
#QBasic #physics

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0x10f Jul 28

I generated the wheels with #QBasic in SCREEN 12. The resolution wasn't high enough so I only generated 45 degrees of the wheel and copied, rotated and flipped the pieces together with GNU IMP.

Profoundly Nerdy Jul 14

Is there a good guide for porting various old school dialects of BASIC to FreeBASIC or at least QBASIC for which it has a compatibility mode?

I'm trying to port some old HP 2000 Timeshare BASIC and some Applesoft BASIC to FreeBASIC and I'm hitting road blocks. I'm aiming to get the projects to complile successfully in QB mode first before migrating to FreeBASIC's native mode.

#BASIC #FreeBASIC #QBASIC #HP2000 #apple2 #retrocomputing #retroprogramming #retrogaming #porting #programming

Profoundly Nerdy Jul 6

Those of you who like and continue to use #BASIC, what do you like? What do you miss when you're coding in something else? Yes, embedded BASIC dialects count.

Do you think BASIC still has life left in it?

#programming #FreeBASIC #qbasic #vb #vba

Diego Córdoba 🇦🇷Jun 23

Edit!

Si habré programado #qbasic, #cobol y #pascal en esa cosa azul xD

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-surprises-ms-dos-fans-with-remake-of-ancient-text-editor-that-works-on-linux/

Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.

Ars Technica

ℒӱḏɩę

💾Jun 16

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.