Pete's QBASIC Site

If anyone has an archive of the N54 forum, I'd be happy to host it here!

What a valuable resource.

Fantastic tutorial for a great game!

I love that you are writing stuff like this in 2025. If QB Express was still in publication, I'd totally ask to include this in the latest edition of the zine.

Hi all,

This forum went down for a couple months due to a corrupt database. I was able to fix it and restore the old database as of 1/31/2025.

Hope it works for everyone! If you have problems, let me know via email - peteberg (at) gmail.com

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Pete

Awesome work!

Also, I checked out your QB website. What a blast from the past! I love seeing a throwback style of website in this day and age.

Hi all, I've upgraded the forum to PHPBB 3.3! Sorry for the recent downtime - the old installation broke for some reason. Welcome back to the forum, and enjoy.

-Pete

This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing, and happy belated Christmas!

Good to hear from you Jacob! It's been a loooong time. Hope all is well.

I came across this game recently, which was published in 2020 by "40wattstudio" and thought you guys might be interested. QBasic is still alive in the '20s! https://40wattstudio.itch.io/scrapship-demo Here are some animated images from the game: https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTc1MTg1LzQ3OT...

Great work! Glad you're still keeping the QBasic dream alive.

Thanks for sharing this game and your website! Reminds me of the good old QBasic days. (Even if I happen to like pandas and am not so keen on shooting them.)

My oh my, does time fly! Pete's QB Site is now TWENTY years old... and it has been a full decade since the last update. (Yikes!) Although I retired from updating this site and publishing QB Express in 2008, I've always intended to keep this site online forever as a resource. Pete's QB Site is here f...

Just want to say thank you for coding this, and thanks for keeping the QB dream alive! I've always loved these "time crunch" coding challenges.

You are correct that this website is just an archive at this point. Hardly anyone still programs in QBasic, ever since Windows fully moved on from DOS and QBasic wasn't properly supported. But this website still does get a fair amount of traffic, all things considered. The big tutorials archive is s...

Great article about how QBasic is still the best intro programming language for kids.

http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-year ... -the-best/

Hi guys, I just updated this forum to the latest version of PHPBB. Hopefully it will work better for you all and will help alleviate some of the spambot problems. I don't plan to do any major updates with Pete's QB Site going forward, but at some point I'm going to update the front page to make it m...

Looks great, Mark. I've always been a big fan of ARC Legacy. It'll be fun to play it again in a browser.

Welcome!

Yup, I still do check in here every so often. Thanks a lot to burger2227 for keeping this place running.

That's pretty awesome!

I'm looking into making .htaccess rewrite rules which will parse incoming links for the old forum and automatically redirect to the proper URL on the new forum. I'll play around with it and see what I can figure out. That way, you won't need to update any of the old links.

After years and years, I've finally upgraded the forum on Pete's QB Site to the current version of PHPBB3. People have been complaining about various login issues and glitches for years...hopefully this will solve the problem. I'm also hoping this will be more secure and prevent any and all spambots...