A few of my QBasic games

[Damaniel]

I had a chance to try out your games -- cool stuff! I see that you were making these at about the same time that I was (1995-1996).

I found printouts of a few programs in a binder, and typed them all in -- reminds me of my Apple II days, typing BASIC programs out of books. None of them are very good or very fun (and the code is totally cringeworthy), but here they are (note: I used hard-coded loops for all of the timing in this code. Running in DosBox at ~20000 cycles will give you a good idea of what these ran like on the PC I did these on):

Planet


A very basic 'shoot the meteors' game. Only two meteors can be on the screen at a time. There are 5 difficulty levels.

Race


This was something I put together while experimenting with multi-directional thrust. If you hit the wall too many times, the game ends. It even tells you when you're going the wrong way.

Hangman


A hangman game. It's a little brain-dead -- you have to press space to type out the word when you think you know what it is. You have to do this, even if you've already guessed each of the individual letters. I was planning on a large dictionary of words, but only got to the 'D's, so there's about 550 words that can be randomly chosen. This is the only QBasic game I did that had some music in it.

MGEdit
MazeGame
MAZE1.MAZ



I started on these but didn't do very much with them. The goal of the main game ('mazegame.bas') is to get from the starting point of the maze to the end in as few moves as possible -- but you have to collect the key before getting to the exit. On top of that, the walls in the maze are invisible, and will only appear when you run into them. mgedit.bas allows you to make your own mazes (necessary, since I didn't ever make any official ones). I've included a simple maze (MAZE1.MAZ) to test it all out.

I did other QBasic work as well (including a program for the video store I worked at -- it calculated pay, taxes and withholdings for employee paychecks, and tabulated totals for W2s at the end of the year), but unfortunately I don't have any of it anymore.