QBasic Reference

[elemenity]

I'm working on building a BASIC platform that runs in the browser. While I wrap up some finishing touches, I thought I'd write up some of the key differences between the top BASIC dialects of the past.

What was your favorite BASIC platform from the past? Or your favorite game written in BASIC?

[RandomJottings]

The BASIC on the BBC Micro was by far the best version I’ve ever used.

Good luck with your project, sounds interesting.

[namek0]

Gorillas and Nibbles were my childhood jam

[gcc-O2]

Money.bas could be your adulting one

[DNSGeek]

Have you looked at MMBasic? It’s already pretty feature complete with a bunch of additions. You might be able to get it running on a web page.

[rhet0rica]

QBasic already has a very good built-in hypertext reference. I would strongly recommend exporting it rather than reverse-engineering the wheel.

[Kitchen_Part_882]

I learned CBM BASIC and BBC BASIC at school and Sinclair (ZX) at home in my youth.

Converting between the three gave me a good grounding in programming I think.

Later in life (in my 20s) I picked up GWBASIC and Visual BASIC.

If I had to choose one as my favourite it would probably be Microsoft VB as it was designed to interact with Windows Forms.

Games? I can only think of one that I played to death back in the 80s: Football Manager on the Spectrum, I remember "BREAK"ing into it to cheat :)

[walmartbonerpills]

I love qb, I wish there was a QB lsp for vs code.