Qbasic App Download For Pc

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Gwenda Arguin

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:55:00 PM8/3/24

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I'm having so much fun with Pico-8...I feel just like I did when I was 13 getting into QBasic for the first time in 1996. I used to go with my dad to the university with a floppy disc so I could download other people's QBasic programs, which were often "tiny games" by today's standards.

I'm actually part of a world that's almost like this one. The NES homebrew community. Folks actually making real NES games in 6502 assembly (and also C at times). It's not quite the same though as the QBasic world felt, but I love it for many other reasons...

In fact, I even made an (still as yet unfinished) port of the classic GORILLAS.BAS that came with QBasic. I even dug up the original code to see how some aspects were achieved (man, we have the luxury of so much CPU power nowadays!).

That's why (as you say) the PICO-8 really shines, coz it's got everything you need: code, gfx, sound and music editors - all built in. Nice and easy-to-learn API and language syntax. It's great for kids nowadays - I just WISH it was around when I was growing up (probably explains why I feel I've regressed a bit since discovering it!) ;o)

That GORILLAS.BAS clone looks awesome! Do NIBBLES.BAS next! I did see a couple of folks made snake games but an actual clone of the colors/sounds of the qbasic one would be awesome. Can't wait to play it when you're done lol. Trying to imitate the explosion sounds too? I used to get a huge kick out of throwing bananas way in the air and seeing them blow up inside a building because the downwards velocity had become so huge lol.

It seems that the qbasic.exe file is not in the directory you are mounting. Either find the qbasic.exe file and save it in that directory (in this case your qbprogs directory) or following the below steps.