Pete's QBASIC Site

In late June, I started working on a Duke Nukem level editor out of curiosity. I never really looked into the game files and thought it would be fun. I uploaded a few WIP versions already but now that the editor is somewhat more user-friendly, I thought I'd remove them and share the latest (July 27t...

Another shameless plug; here's a tile-based collisions demo for platformers (source and executable.) If anyone's interested, I wrote an article explaining how it was built and how to also create simple collision systems for top-down RPG games.

I know I might be disrespecting a sacred cow on this one and I'm thirty years late to the party anyway... but has anyone actually managed to use the ABC/CDE packets compiled by William Yu back in the days? The Basic Source Repository fails to display most packets, and The Official(r) ABC Express Rea...

https://qbmikehawk.neocities.org/games/edutris/1.png https://qbmikehawk.neocities.org/games/edutris/2.png Remember that boolean operator tutorial disguised as a "build your own Tetris" article I posted here a couple of years ago? It contained a lot of text, some illustrations, and even a ...

Thank you so, so much Pete! You rock!

If you're into tuuuuuubes and want to program a game similar to Pipe Dream / Pipe Mania or Ant Run but don't know how to, I got just the thing: another single-page black-and-white tutorial with step by steps explanations (I wanted to add two alternative ways of doing it, but I thought it would be to...

Wow! This is like an early Christmas gift! Super cool! Thanks! I should probably add some illustrations for the OR operator (XOR is used a few times but never explained, and MOD can be replaced with AND in this case, so I should probably point that out too.) I also spotted some remnants of old code...

Oof... that's definitely not on my radar. I confused it with Small BASIC on Source Forge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/smallbasic/ -- I don't believe it to be related.) But this one seems very "new-Microsoft" in its approach and I don't understand what they're trying to do. Let me take...

If you ever wanted to learn more about binary representation, boolean operators, and how this knowledge can help you program cool stuff, I just uploaded a simple black-and-white page packed with illustrations, code, and step-by-step instructions on how to build your own Tetris engine. Let me know wh...

Works perfectly. Always greater than 0 and less than 1. I updated your egg dropping example to reflect the change. Neat! :D Now you may embed Net Basic apps on any site. 8) Also neat :shock: If you did not already: check out Ethan Winer's BASIC Techniques and Utilities Book , it explains a lot of t...

It seems that QB's RND() function could be emulated with: rand(0, getrandmax() - 1) / getrandmax() That said, I think I found something that you're not going to like much. I was about to say that a good alternative to NOT() is to use XOR -1... but... after running the following code in Net BASIC: 10...

May I include your snippets in the Net Basic examples? Sure, go ahead. IIRC, Net Basic didn't throw an error when I attempted to do: IF (r < g) AND (r < b) THEN LET min = r It failed and after looking into the sample codes, I understood I had to jump instead. But I expected an error at least. I als...

Neat. I gave that code a go: 1 REM Get biggest common divisor of scrWidth and scrHeight (Euclidean Algorithm,) compute aspect ratio 10 LET scrWidth = 1024 20 LET scrHeight = 768 30 LET a = scrWidth 40 LET b = scrHeight 50 LET c = 0 100 IF (scrWidth < scrHeight) THEN 130 110 LET a = scrHeight 120 LET...

The Autumn Springs Columns clone was one of the reasons I wanted to write my own. It has a sweet audio engine and looks good but some choices are baffling to me. It uses a high-resolution SVGA graphic mode so they could have square pixels but they also made every pixel 4x their size (I mean, if you'...

I wish I could learn how to sound more supportive when I type because I'm really happy to see new games being programmed in QuickBASIC; especially ones that are actually complete and worth playing like yours (I got a fairly large collection of programs and a good chunk of them, while charming, are u...

I really think the actors' collision box should be thinner and maybe a little shorter too.

Some jumps are deceptive, others are really tricky to pull off: there's one in particular in a bonus round in which I expected the spring to bring me over the ledge to the left, but it didn't (I had to jump from the block directly below) and my first game over was on level 14 because I didn't realiz...

Thank you very much!

Thanks! Yes, the short delay before the column is placed was in the original game. I got some things close enough (holding the down arrow key increases the score like it does on the Genesis, but there's a one point difference because I didn't pay attention to the delay before cementing the column,) ...

It's a clone of Sega's 1990 Columns in QuickBASIC. It has both the "original" and "flash" game modes, and supports joystick. It also features all the blocks from the Game Gear version. It's been tested under DOSBox (around 1500 cycles) and on a 18 years old laptop (Intel Celeron ...