DimaLink<p>B ball – fantastic 80s! Colors, moves! Text!</p><p><a href="https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/03/b-ball-fantastic-80s-colors-moves-text.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/b-ball-fantastic-80s-colors-moves-text.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dynamicgame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dynamicgame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/80ssciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80ssciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spacesuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacesuit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spaceship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spaceship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lotsofindication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lotsofindication</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantastic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colorful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colorful</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skills</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bonus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bonus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doublehit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doublehit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blocks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hitblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hitblock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/8bitcomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8bitcomputers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbcbasicforsdl2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbcbasicforsdl2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retroprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/qbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbasic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devlog</span></a></p>
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Scott Williams 🐧<p>I'm tempted to put together a "State of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBASIC</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>" talk.</p><p>There's actually been some really cool stuff done with it in recent years, like qbjs and even a web server. We still talk about COBOL and FORTRAN, but <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> in general is still getting some love to this day.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>That's a wrap for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SCaLE22x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCaLE22x</span></a>! It was great to see so many familiar faces and have so many great conversations about <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kubernetes</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/podman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podman</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBASIC</span></a>, and other <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> adventures!</p><p>See you all again next year if not sooner!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SCaLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCaLE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/socallinuxexpo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socallinuxexpo</span></a></p>
Ramin Honary<blockquote><p>My 8 year old son has fallen in love with this old laptop that honestly isn’t useful for that much as the speed and wifi is so slow.</p><p>But he says he wants to learn how to code on it. </p></blockquote><p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codemonkeymike</span></a></span> yes, I would recommend learning Racket. The <a href="https://racket-lang.org/%20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Racket language</a> is relatively lightweight compared to modern app development frameworks such as VSCode so runs nice and fast on older hardware, and it is designed specifically for teaching coding. There are some nice books aimed at kids for teaching Racket as well:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.realmofracket.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.realmofracket.com/</a></li></ul><p>It is about as easy as learning BASIC was when I was a kid.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/software" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/lisp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lisp</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/racketlang" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RacketLang</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/learncoding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearnCoding</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/learntocode" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearnToCode</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/qbasic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QBASIC</a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codemonkeymike</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> I have a copr repo for qb64! But I've also successfully ran actual <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBasic</span></a> from a floppy drive in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lutris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lutris</span></a>, which I'm near certain uses DOSBox under the hood, but the important detail about that is that I didn't have to figure that out for myself.</p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>Fun fact: The song is coded in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBasic</span></a> and is much longer than in the clip! </p><p><a href="https://github.com/vwbusguy/qbsh/blob/main/qbsh.bas#L129" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/vwbusguy/qbsh/blob/</span><span class="invisible">main/qbsh.bas#L129</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBSH</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QB64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QB64</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MerryChristmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MerryChristmas</span></a></p>
se¡sm<p>Lighting a candle in the way <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ThomasKurtz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasKurtz</span></a> would appreciate, in a <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/QBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBASIC</span></a> emulator courtesy of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/msdos_qbasic_megapack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/msdos_qbas</span><span class="invisible">ic_megapack</span></a></p>
Bezekium 🐕 🎮 🎵 🎓 ⚽<p>Just watched some <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamejam</span></a> videos and it is beyond me how you can create a basic game so fast. I love it, it's fascinating!<br>Maybe one day I will have another go at it. I did some <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/QBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBasic</span></a> in the late 90s, some <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/VisualBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisualBasic</span></a> in the 2000s and last year some <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Godot</span></a>. But it was so overwhelming and time consuming I stopped rather quickly :(</p><p> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a></p>
QB64<p>Ever wanted to launch your own website with <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/QBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBASIC</span></a>? You can with <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/qub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qub</span></a>, powered by <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/QB64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QB64</span></a>!</p><p>By <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@jamon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jamon</span></a></span> .</p><p><a href="https://github.com/jamonholmgren/qub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/jamonholmgren/qub</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
SuperIlu<p>Awesome DOS game by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rainbowcemetery" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rainbowcemetery</span></a></span> written in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBasic</span></a> 😁</p><p><a href="https://rainbowcemetery.itch.io/anzu-castle-gracula" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rainbowcemetery.itch.io/anzu-c</span><span class="invisible">astle-gracula</span></a></p><p>EDIT: found the author on fediverse</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
root42<p>Oh come on … I don’t have to name it, do I?<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/qbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbasic</span></a></p>
Rainbow Cemetery<p>got sounds and midi playback working, though i dont have enough conventional memory left to run it in the ide with those enabled :< <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/dos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/qbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbasic</span></a></p>
Rainbow Cemetery<p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/dos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/qbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbasic</span></a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>Come to Game Night at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SCaLE21x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCaLE21x</span></a> tonight and you just might win a *signed* floppy of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/qbsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbsh</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QBasic</span></a></p>
xtoff<p>It's not meant to be a browser game but out of... curiosity :D</p><p>How this works:</p><p>1. BASIC game code (from 2000)<br>2. BASIC interpreter (C#)<br>3. Runtime (QBasic mostly)<br>4. Godot Engine 3.x (C#)<br>5. Browser (WASM, WebGL)<br>6. OS</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>godot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiegamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/qbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qbasic</span></a></p>
I'm pleased to announce that #qbsh has a new release! Version 1.1.0 is out with significant improvements in the shell pipe handling for interactive CLI programs like vim.
GitHubRelease 1.1.0 · vwbusguy/qbshThe 1.1.0 release is mainly focused on improving the shell functionality of qbsh rather than adding new features.
Bugfixes and Improvements:
Refactoring of code to offload some common IO to separat...
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