I always thought, that qBasic is text mode semi programming language. That guy on this website makes games in graphics mode, and they are quite good.
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/mirrors/a … do/e-qbasic.htm
Do you know more websites with QBasic games? Do you have any favorites?Please share.
Take a look here http://www.petesqbsite.com/index.php . Not all games related but has quite a few tutorials on QBasic game development among many other things if you are interested in having a go yourself.
Also have a look at QuickBasic (QB, QB45) related game development. QuickBasic 4.5 is able to execute and compile QBasic programs.
It also comes with an on-line help system and has got more features (you can include external libraries, such as qb.bi).
Or if you find a cheap copy of Visual Basic for DOS, then that's an alternative, too.
It has a fairly good QBasic/QB compatibility, as far as I can tell.
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GORILLA.BAS
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I feel like everybody had this game (including me). I think it was included with qbasic disks.
Basic can use graphics mode no problem, only issue is it's extremely slow compared to game engines written in C or pascal with assembly for memory moves. On the bright side its hilariously easy to use and thus the language many of us learned as kids.
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There are also 3D Games, but they use directqb a libary with asm routines.
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wrote:I feel like everybody had this game (including me). I think it was included with qbasic disks.
Well, QBasic is the stripped version of Quick Basic that came with DOS.
So everyone who had DOS 5.0 or later, had QBasic, and therefore gorilla.bas
Earlier versions of DOS had GW-BASIC, and donkey.bas
Used to do quite a bit of QuickBASIC coding back in the late 90's and very early 2000's. QBasic 1.1 (the free version that comes with MS-DOS) is pretty capable and a lot of fun to use, but moving up to QuickBASIC makes it easier to link in high performance code written in C, assembly, etc. as "quick libraries." That really opens the door to do a lot of the cool stuff you can find on the sites others have linked in this thread. You can actually use assembly in QBasic 1.1 too via CALL ABSOLUTE, but it tends to be a pain in the ass (in my experience). Plus the extra performance you get from being able to run your own compiled .EXE's with QuickBASIC helps too.
There were a quite a lot of game development libraries geared towards QuickBASIC (DirectQB, Future Library, UGL, etc) and the community of developers at the time was awesome. I miss those days. 😀
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