QB games found on archive.org

[EricE]

I found this recently at archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/QbMissle

It is a 1997 clone of the classic Missile Command game written in QBasic.

The source code runs in QB64 without any modifications.

[johnno56]

As I run with Linux my machine had a problem resolving the "case" of the filenames. Once modified all ran very well... Fast little game... barely survived level 1... lol

Nice find!

[EricE]

Hi johno56,
Archive.org also has QB Invaders (Space Invaders clone),
https://archive.org/details/QbInvaders

and QB Roids (Asteroids clone),
https://archive.org/details/QbRoids
but I have not yet tried running them using QB64.

[johnno56]

In qbinvaders, FadePal subroutine, "element not defined" (both versions of qb64 - 1.3 and 1.4) I don't know enough about qb64 to fix it...

In qbroids, "case" of filenames had to be altered but when it played, it was way too fast. The 'ship' was 'smooshed' before I could get to the controls... Oh, the curse of a quad-core cpu... lol

I suppose I could try them using Dosbox... who knows, maybe I'll survive long enough to kill a few baddies... lol

[bplus]

In qbroids, "case" of filenames had to be altered but when it played, it was way too fast. The 'ship' was 'smooshed' before I could get to the controls... Oh, the curse of a quad-core cpu... lol

Yeah a fair amount of the samples in QB64 download are like that! They need to be refreshed, replaced or separated from download to save time and space.

[johnno56]

"They need to be refreshed, replaced or separated"

Any brave volunteers?

[EricE]

QBasic Pac-Man!

https://archive.org/details/Pac-manqbasicGame

It runs in QB64, but has the same "runs too fast" problem!

[EricE]

QB Defender

https://archive.org/details/QbDefender

This one needs some source code changes in order to compile with QB64

[EricE]

I was looking for a Lunar Lander type of QBasic game, and I found one at Archive.org named Probe.

https://archive.org/details/Probe_601

There is not one but three source code files for the game, as well as a DOS Help file QBASIC.HLP which I have to find some way to open. Another project to work on.

Some work will be required to get this game to run in QB64.

[bplus]

InForm Lander Project:
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=249.0


Or there is this ;-))

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. DEFINT A-Z
2. SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(800, 640, 12)
3. DIM g(100)
4. DO
5.     CLS
6.     h = 30: dx = 1: x = 3: y = 2: u = x: v = y
7.     FOR i = 1 TO 100
8.         h = h + (RND * 3) \ 1 - 1
9.         IF h > 39 THEN h = 39
10.         IF h < 25 THEN h = 25
11.         LOCATE h, i: PRINT "W";: g(i) = h
12.     NEXT
13.     WHILE 1
14.         l v - 1, u, " ": l v, u - 1, "   "
15.         l y - 1, x, "O": l y, x - 1, "/ \"
16.         IF y > g(x - 1) OR y > g(x + 1) OR x < 2 OR x > 78 THEN l 2, 46, "CRASH": EXIT WHILE
17.         IF y = g(x - 1) - 1 AND y = g(x + 1) - 1 THEN l 2, 46, "Landed": EXIT WHILE
18.         u = x: v = y
19.         k$ = INKEY$
20.         IF LEN(k$) = 2 THEN
21.             IF ASC(RIGHT$(k$, 1)) = 75 THEN dx = dx - 1
22.             IF ASC(RIGHT$(k$, 1)) = 77 THEN dx = dx + 1
23.             IF ASC(RIGHT$(k$, 1)) = 72 THEN y = y - 5
24.         END IF
25.         x = x + dx: y = y + 1
26.         IF y = 40 THEN END
27.         _LIMIT 2
28.     WEND
29.     _DELAY 2
30. LOOP
31. SUB l (r, c, s$)
32.     LOCATE r, c: PRINT s$;
33. END SUB
34.  
35.  

[johnno56]

Cool. Pure text!

Strange thing... ran the game and did nothing, no key press just for giggles, and the probe landed. It restarted. Landscape would change. Landed. Restarted... etc...  I'm sure that someone could possibly make the game, let's say, a little more challenging? Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink. lol

[bplus]

Cool. Pure text!

Strange thing... ran the game and did nothing, no key press just for giggles, and the probe landed. It restarted. Landscape would change. Landed. Restarted... etc...  I'm sure that someone could possibly make the game, let's say, a little more challenging? Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink. lol

;-))
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2219.msg114875#msg114875

Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink. lol

[Cobalt]

If you want to see a commercial QB45 game, "Reaping The Dungeon" (aka "Dungeon Rogue", for a short time) was coded in QB45. and sold for a time in the mid 90s.